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Since 2012, I’ve been writing about books. And the act of reading. And the importance of story and narrative. But, mostly, the underlying theme of all I write is how taking a moment to stop and digest some longform text — instead of scrolling, instead of watching a video, instead of multitasking — can be one of the most grounding things we can do for ourselves. Here’s the one-stop online home for all this writing.
You can read more about me and my work by moseying over here. Want to peruse periodic “essay drops” — excerpts from my work-in-progress essay collection about Homesickness? Here ya go.
Baker & Taylor And All Those Popular Books We Want
It’s been a long time since I’ve bought a hot book. No, not that kind of hot book. (🔥) And not in an Amish Romance kind of way either, although I do enjoy shelving those at the Habitat ReStore. I just mean the types of highly anticipated, much-publicized novels that, say, Jenna Bush Hager often selects. I usually reserve those for the library. Literally. I reserve them and am often like number 350 on the waitlist.
The Neighbor’s Secret
Here’s why this book — so different than what I normally read — caught my eye. The Neighbor’s Secret by L. Alison Heller was featured as a recent NYT Group Text “book club” pick, and I was taken in because a neighborhood book club acts as the grounding “institution” for the subtly catty yet loud and proud I-just-want-to-raise-good-and-kind-humans crowd of mamas. (🥴) I suspected some blink-or-you’ll-miss-it sarcasm would abound...and I was right.
