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I enjoyed this because Kreizman and I have seemingly led similar lives - growing up sheltered in a fairly homogenous place, being diagnosed with a chronic illness as kids, and starting to question the “natural” ways of things as we grew up and broadened our circles. She‘s only five years older than me, which also strengthens the parallels - her references were mostly age appropriate to mine. That being said, these stories weren‘t…

I picked this up on the personal recommendation of a bookseller, who loved it, and because the author‘s novel, Death Valley, was one of my favorite reads last year. All I can say is… this will not be one of my favorite reads this year. 🙈

I suspected it might be too much (and too gross) for me after the first two essays, about consuming your own bodily secretions and working for a tantric sex nonprofit, respectively.👇🏻

#celebrate #ChoseWoutBlurb This one can write . I resisted at first then read some and became a fan !

This collection has been really interesting so far. A lot of books I haven't heard of, or have heard of but didn't know what were about. And #essays that really make you think #netgalleybacklog

Forgot to post this yesterday, but my pick for September‘s best book is the tagged newly published collection of poetry and essays by one of my favorite poets, Mary Oliver.

Beautifully meditative, this was the perfect thing to read when I needed to slow down.

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August: One Man's Meat by E.B. White. My teenage son says, "Pause," whenever I say the title, but I love this quiet, reflective book of essays by the author of Charlotte's Web (before he wrote Charlotte's Web).

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November #wrapup

I was pleasantly surprised with the short stories and articles in the tagged title and it was my favorite of the month. I dnf‘d Tom Hanks, too dense and boring and Fahrenheit was a reread.

June was a slow reading month, but Lauren Markham's thought-provoking essay on a disconnect between our language and our historical moment, has lingered in my thoughts.

Honorable mention to Asimov's “Foundation,“ which held up better than I expected.

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You know how some books just shock & delight you? I picked this book up because it‘s written by a Vermonter who teaches at Dartmouth. I knew nothing else about him. These are very short essays that alternate between stories of his life & stories of famous authors. I was googling while reading to discover more about some of the authors. I‘ve moved on to another book now but I keep going back to this one to read it again. I need more of his books.