Monthly Archives: May 2023

I picked this up because we were going to spend a few days in LA (I love reading books that are connected to the places I travel to), and read it on the plane with great pleasure. The voice won me over immediately, from the fantastic opening line — “One summer morning while I wasContinueContinue reading “LA Woman, Eve Babitz”

I’ve been reading this slowly for over a year now — read a chapter, think on it, go back and re-read, think some more. Then I was working on an essay and realized that parts of the book were echoing in my head, and so I started trying to think with it, and found myselfContinueContinue reading “Dear Science and Other Stories, Katherine McKittrick”

I was looking for an absorbing and fun book to celebrate the end of the semester, so I tore right through this. It’s an odd novel, one that’s weaving together three major strands through the story of one character, a graduate student who is on the verge of getting married and also trying to finishContinueContinue reading “New People, Danzy Senna”

I loved the Wrinkle in Time books when I was a kid, and then as a teenager, I was thrilled to discover that L’Engle had also written books for young adults, and I happily devoured those as well. So when I saw this short story collection in the new books display of my college’s library,ContinueContinue reading “The Moment of Tenderness, Madeleine L’Engle”