Old Blog Posts

I have not regularly updated this blog since 2020, but I am too nostalgic to delete them forever, so here they live for my reminiscing (and yours, if you’re interested).

  • Holiday Gift Guide: Everything but the Books

    Holiday Gift Guide: Everything but the Books

    Next week, we’ll talk books.  But for today, it’s candles, sequins, Glossier, and more! Read more

  • Thanksgiving: Stories of Family

    Thanksgiving: Stories of Family

    HAPPY THANKSGIVING!  Thanksgiving is my absolute favorite holiday – four days of family time with a side of delicious food?  Sign me up.  Here are some of my favorite recent reads about families – the ones you can’t life with and the ones you can’t life without. Read more

  • Friendsgiving: Books of Friendship

    Friendsgiving: Books of Friendship

    Hello! Happy weekend before Thanksgiving.  For the past few years, this weekend has been lovingly known amongst millennials as “Friendsgiving.”  Say what you will about our generation, but we know how to celebrate our closest friends.  On that note, here are a few of my favorite recent reads that feature stories of friendship. Read more

  • The Interestings

    The Interestings

    THE DETAILS: Title: The Interestings Author: Meg Wolitzer Genre: Fiction Pub date: April 9, 2013 Read if you like: The Ensemble, The Gunners, theater camp. Read more

  • This Will Only Hurt a Little

    This Will Only Hurt a Little

    Thank you to the ever wonderful Kelsey Manning at Touchstone Books for my copy of This Will Only Hurt a Little by Busy Philipps.  All thoughts and images are my own. THE DETAILS: Title: This Will Only Hurt a Little Author: Busy Philipps Genre: Memoir Pub date: October 16, 2018 Read if you like: laughing, crying, people who are just freaking real. Read more

  • Places I Stopped on the Way Home

    Places I Stopped on the Way Home

    One huge massive shoutout to my wonderful friend Heather for gifting me this book on my last birthday.  Heather and I met this past May and she just gets me.  Her passing of this book to me on a special occasion just shows the level to which that is true. THE DETAILS: Title: Places I Stopped Read more

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