It’s January 8 and I’ve already read two books! But they were both short. 😉 As someone who published a “short book,” I know how hard …
Education
2024: The Year That Wouldn’t Quit
I can’t believe I’m writing another edition of “the days are long but the years are short.” Here we go. This was an extremely tough year for …
On the Record: Music journalists on their lives, craft, and careers
I had a feeling I was going to like this book – and the Almost Famous references were two of many immediate indicators. Right after the …
The Last Ranger
There are many reasons why I keep coming back to Peter Heller books. First of all, he lives in Colorado and endearingly writes about the …
The Feather Thief
After reading fiction for my last few books, I decided to delve back into nonfiction with The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the …
The Greatest Night in Pop
Although I was only two years old when some of the biggest music stars on the planet gathered in one room to help alleviate the horrific …
Lessons in Chemistry
This book broke my heart but I loved it. It broke my heart because the way women were treated in the 1950s and 1960s was bullshit. Because …
Yellowface
An Asian author writing as a white writer who steals a manuscript from her recently deceased Asian writer friend and then sort of pretends …
Why They Can’t Write
Wow that’s a loaded title! And here the subtitle: Killing the Five-Paragraph Essay and Other Necessities. It’s obvious why I wanted to …
