Hi Darling Ones, I feel about Weike Wang’s novels the same way I do about Sally Rooney’s novels. While I’m in the books I’m all in. I’m never really sure where things are going or…
Browsing Category Books
On the Boards
Hello Darling Ones, I’ve been reading Nichole Perkins’ essay collection Sometimes I Trip on How Happy We Could Be, which is charming the daylights out of me. Despite being fiveish years younger than I am…
Literary Math + 10 Best Books of 2021
Hi Darling Ones, I’ve read 165 books so far this year. I even read a two of them twice (Jeff Tweedy’s memoir & the Sylvia Plath bio). In the olden days I would write about…
The Dirty Book
Dear Darling Ones, I first read Forever. . . by Judy Blume in 1983. I wish I could remember the provenance of the copy that was passed from girl to girl in the back of…
One for Vonnegut on the 99th Anniversary of His Birth
Hello Darling Babies, Today is the 99th anniversary of the birth of Kurt Vonnegut, a writer whose work has meant a lot to me throughout my life. I did not come to Vonnegut easily. I…
Behold My Sanctimony & Feel Inferior
Dear Darling Ones, I turned all the rotten bananas chilling in my freezer into banana bread today. I needed the hit of smug superiority along with feelings of productivity and also taking care of myself….