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Iona Iverson’s Rules for Commuting

Regular commuters tend to keep to themselves, even if they see the same people on the train every day. 57-year-old magazine advice columnist Iona sees nothing wrong with this. She and her dog Lulu take the train without talking to anyone and it suits them well. Until one day a fellow commuter almost chokes on a grape and is rescued by another commuter who happens to be a nurse. It forms a bond for the train car, as the eclectic inhabitants learn talking to strangers just might be worth it after all.

The Four Tendencies: The Indispensable Personality Profiles That Reveal How to Make Your Life Better (and Other People’s Lives Better, Too)

You know I love a good personality book, right? Gretchen is best known for her work researching habits and happiness, which you may have read all about in books like The Happiness Project and Better Than Before. In the course of that research, she noticed that different people had drastically different responses to the question “How do I respond to expectations?” In this book, she’s compiled what she’s learned—that people fit into one of Four Tendencies based on how they respond to inner and outer expectations. I read Gretchen’s blog and follow her podcast, but it wasn’t until I could read the information in book form that I felt like I really got it and could categorize myself correctly. (Upholder, right here, but you may be a Questioner, Obliger, or Rebel).

To Be Taught, If Fortunate

From the publisher: At the turn of the twenty-second century, scientists make a breakthrough in human spaceflight. With the fragility of the body no longer a limiting factor, human beings are at last able to journey to neighboring exoplanets long known to harbor life. A team of these explorers, Ariadne O’Neill and her three crewmates, are hard at work in a planetary system fifteen light-years from Sol, on a mission to ecologically survey four habitable worlds. But as Ariadne shifts through both form and time, the culture back on Earth has also been transformed. Faced with the possibility of returning to a planet that has forgotten those who have left, Ariadne begins to chronicle the story of the wonders and dangers of her mission, in the hope that someone back home might still be listening.

The joy (and nerdery) of a crossword puzzle routine

Webster’s forte (5 letters) If you’ve talked to me in the past year, chances are good I’ve mentioned my thrice

14 books about walking and hiking

I’m awfully fond of walking, in any season. And the beautiful (and warmer!) weather we’re experiencing right now where I

The Terrible Speed of Mercy

Host of The Habit: Conversations with Writers about Writing podcast, Jonathan Rogers uses Flannery O’Connor’s letters to prove that she wasn’t only a Southern Gothic, but also full of wit. This will make you want to revisit her writings or pick them up for the first time. From the publisher: “Flannery O’Connor’s work has been described as ‘profane, blasphemous, and outrageous.’ Her world—our world—is the stage whereon the divine comedy plays out; the freakishness and violence in O’Connor’s stories, so often mistaken for a kind of misanthropy or even nihilism, turn out to be a call to mercy. In this biography, Jonathan Rogers gets at the heart of O’Connor’s work. He traces the outlines of a life marked by illness and suffering, but ultimately defined by an irrepressible joy and even hilarity.”

What’s saving your life right now?

It’s no longer the midpoint of winter, not exactly. That came and went ten days ago and because my mom

The First Husband

I’ve been wanting to read this ever since I read and loved her novel Eight Hundred Grapes. People Magazine calls this “A fresh funny take on the search for a soulmate.” And Entertainment Weekly says it’s “Fizzy, amusing.”

Dakota: A Spiritual Geography

I love Kathleen Norris. From the publisher: “A celebrated poet transports readers to the heart of the Great Plains, examining her heritage, religion, language, and the land itself, revealing the contradictions of small-town life on the Great Plains. Kathleen Norris invites readers to experience rich moments of prayer and presence in Dakota, a timeless tribute to a place in the American landscape that is at once desolate and sublime, harsh and forgiving, steeped in history and myth. In thoughtful, discerning prose, she explores how we come to inhabit the world we see, and how that world also inhabits us. Her voice is a steady assurance that we can, and do, chart our spiritual geography wherever we go.”

The Patron Saint of Liars

This is the strong debut from now-established novelist Patchett. I enjoyed this one, and recommend following it up with her mini-memoir The Getaway Car, where she tells the story of how the novel came to be.

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