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It’s been a stressful year for many reasons. As such, I’ve been focusing on controlling the things I can (which
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It’s been a stressful year for many reasons. As such, I’ve been focusing on controlling the things I can (which
How do you get out of a reading rut? One of my tried-and-true methods is to grab a book that
One of the prompts for the 2020 Reading Challenge is “read a book nominated for an award in 2020.” But
National Book Award winner, and one of Andrea Griffith’s favorites from episode 28 of What Should I Read Next. From the publisher: “Brace yourself for the most astonishing, challenging, upsetting, and profoundly moving book in many a season. An epic about love and friendship in the twenty-first century that goes into some of the darkest places fiction has ever traveled and yet somehow improbably breaks through into the light.”
From the publisher: “Published in 1928, Nella Larsen’s first novel regards the story of Helga Crane, the lovely and refined mixed-race daughter of a Danish mother and a West Indian black father. The character is loosely based on Larsen’s own experiences and deals with the character’s struggle for racial and sexual identity, a theme common to Larsen’s work. Larsen’s work has been lauded for its exploration of race, gender, class, and sexuality amongst African Americans in early part of the 20th century. Now considered as a major figure of the Harlem Renaissance, Larsen’s writing gives a firsthand insight into the struggle of African Americans during this era.”
From the publisher: “Ginny Blackstone never thought she’d spend her summer vacation backpacking across Europe. But that was before she received the first little blue envelope from Aunt Peg. This letter was different from Peg’s usual letters for two reasons: 1. Peg had been dead for three months. 2. The letter included $1000 cash for a passport and a plane ticket. Armed with instructions for how to retrieve twelve other letters Peg wrote—twelve letters that tell Ginny where she needs to go and what she needs to do when she gets there—Ginny quickly finds herself swept away in her first real adventure. Traveling from London to Edinburgh to Amsterdam and beyond, Ginny begins to uncover stories from her aunt’s past and discover who Peg really was.”
Kristin Chenoweth is known for many things: her starring role as Galinda in Wicked, her Tony Award for You’re A Good Man, and any number of hit TV shows. But do you really know her? Chenoweth shares about her Oklahoma upbringing, her foray into beauty pageants, and the life-changing detour she took on her way to becoming an opera singer.
A few shopping rules I rely on: 1. Calculate the cost-per-wear (and its happier alternative). 2. If you know what to
I like to keep a list in my bullet journal of the (mostly) little, everyday things bringing me a disproportionate
For some reason, the readers I meet often feel compelled to spill all their guilty literary secrets—to me. But readers,
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