Reading
A lightly opinionated list of my recent reads.
Best of the Best
You don’t need me to tell you this is fabulous; it won the freaking Pulitzer! (Only the 2nd graphic memoir to do so, after the equally extraordinary Maus.) READ MORE
This is, by a mile, the best book I’ve ever read. I first listened to this on audio on a long drive and at one point, I gasped out loud. I arrived home with about 20 minutes of book unread and while I did actually consider driving around the neighborhood until I finished, I couldn’t […] READ MORE
All Books:
Love Melissa Faliveno’s writing. This book skates a thin edge between speculative and “regular” fiction (whatever the hell that is). Are the scary things outside in the world or in ourselves? READ MORE
Catching up on things I should have read long, long ago. Still for a good biography of Hansberry not curated by her ex-husband. READ MORE
Another of the books I should have read long ago. While nothing about the plot surprised me at this late date, was lovely to see the characters unfold through Harper Lee’s eyes. READ MORE
Historical fiction is the lemon sorbet of my library. Historical nonfiction (as here) comes a close second. READ MORE
A novel about how crazy we all sometimes feel when we’re writing. Or is the protagonist of this story truly disturbed? READ MORE
To be honest, I didn’t fully appreciate what this book was doing until I was 2/3 of the way through it. And then I was, like, OHHHH. (You may be quicker on the uptake than I was.) READ MORE
A graphic (as in illustrated) biography of two lesbians in small-town New England of the early 19th century. Unusual story, told very well. READ MORE
Currently on my 2nd read of this gorgeous and deeply weird book and asking myself two questions: How did he come to write this? And how on earth has someone made an OPERA of it? Will answer the second question when I see it at the Met in late October ’26. READ MORE
This is, by a mile, the best book I’ve ever read. I first listened to this on audio on a long drive and at one point, I gasped out loud. I arrived home with about 20 minutes of book unread and while I did actually consider driving around the neighborhood until I finished, I couldn’t […] READ MORE