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Posts tagged 2018 Books
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…
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…
Day 129 of 200: Patty Jane’s House of Snotting Your Face Off
The first time I read Lorna Landvik’s Patty Jane’s House of Curl, I was a 23-year-old gas station attendant. I…
Day 107 of 200: All You Can Ever Know
Everyone once in awhile you come across a book that so exquisitely explains your life experience it makes you feel…
Day 92 of 200: Should Have Quit While I was Ahead
I should have quit Mindy Mejia’s Leave No Trace as soon as I realized the main character, Maya, was a…
Day 87 of 200: I Met My Yearly Reading Goal Already
My original goal was to read 60 books in 2018. I upped the number to 70 this summer. I’m currently…
Day 82 of 200: Worrying About Losing Gidget
Tonight I’ll probably finish reading Sally Field’s memoir In Pieces. It’s been way more interesting thing I expected. I’m not…
Day 61 of 200: Tiny Beautiful Things Revisited
I made the mistake of reading Fear: Trump in the White House followed by The Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of…
Day 38 of 200: Vox
This week I tore through Christina Dalcher’s novel Vox which was kinda terrifying in a “Handmaid” kinda way but with…