If you are in the mood for a good cry, have I got two memoirs for you! First is Stephanie Wittels Wachs’ Everything Is Horrible and Wonderful: A Tragicomic Memoir of Genius, Heroin, Love, and…
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First Ever JCSG Quarterly Superlative Awards
Welcome to the first ever Jodi Chromey Supergenius Quarterly Superlative Awards. I’m your host, Jodi Chromey. We’re hoping some day to get Maya Rudolph to do these awards because she should host all the things…
Daisy Jones & The Six: A Book Review in Three Parts
Part I The Tea Ladies are a trio of women I meet up with every few months at the Tea Source in EP to talk about books and TV shows and politics. I don’t like…
Day 197 of 200: The Last Book I Got from a Book Order
Today, @Citesomething posted the most magical tweet of the year. It’s the most wonderful day of the year. pic.twitter.com/WfRtkcy3Rs — Amanda MacGregor (@CiteSomething) February 6, 2019 I saw the picture and a shiver of excitement…
Day 195 of 200: One Greedy Gulp
I’m not sure how you spent your Saturday, but I spent mine plowing through An Anonymous Girl by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen. It was one of those books that exactly hit the spot I…
Day 180 of 200: The Dreamers Doesn’t Land the Plane Safely
My wonderful former writing teacher Dale Gregory Anderson used to tell us that when it came to endings our job, as writers, was to land the plane safely. I think of this a lot whenever…
Day 175 of 200: Milkman was Exhausting
Sometimes, but not often, I will struggle through a book that is challenging. The older I get the more I want to read things that are outside my taste. This rubs up against my “life…
Day 160 of 200: Top Nine & Other Notable Reads
Top Nine Presented in no particular order, though my favorite non-fiction this year was Dessa and my favorite novel was Ayobami Adebeyo’s. Charmed me in a way that I wasn’t expecting: Chemistry by Weike Wang…
Day 137 of 200: The Shock of Recognition
This week I read Well-Read Black Girl edited by Glory Edim. It’s an anthology of essays written by black women about discovering themselves in literature and what that meant to them. The collection is wonderful,…
Day 132 of 200: Good & Mad
Over the weekend I read Rebecca Traister’s Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women’s Anger, which was overall kinda shruggy-emoji. It’s basically a rehash of the last two years with a smidgen of history…