You finally decided to read that book. Only problem is: it’s loud. Your kids are running around playing My Little Pony. A movie is on. You’re at the coffee shop because you thought it sounded romantic and wanted to separate yourself from the distractions on your phone. And the guy next to you is chatting […]
A raw, affecting memoir about striving for acceptance with borderline personality disorder Pippa Scott knew she was different from an early age, but she was made to believe that different was also “difficult.” With a strong personality and even stronger emotions, she seemed to feel things more than those around her, which would set a […]
Any group that has read Steinbeck’s 1952 novel before coming to the East of Eden Netflix adaptation reaches the same sticking point: Cathy Ames does not behave like a person. She is introduced by a narrator who announces, in his own voice, that some children arrive malformed in the soul the way others arrive malformed […]
Before the Joads have left Oklahoma, a man who used to be a preacher tells Tom what he worked out in the wilderness. He went looking for his own soul and could not find one that belonged to him. What he found instead was a fragment of something much larger. “Maybe all men got one […]
Synopsis: Never hook-up with a woman from Landmere, and under no circumstances do you sleep with your best friend’s little sister. Firefighter Elijah Barnett had easy rules when it came to women. Then Dr. Georgia Cross came home. She’s sunshine wrapped in scrubs and managed to get under Elijah’s skin within five minutes of meeting […]
In January a book club of eight agreed to read twelve books together across the year. They chose the first three at the meeting, put them in a group chat, and felt pleased. By early October they have finished four, the chat has gone quiet on the subject, and nobody has raised it since July, […]
Three people stand at a gate in the wilds of a country that executes anyone born with magic. Above them, perched on a thirty-foot wall, sit winged stone creatures with hooded brows and full sets of teeth, shifting to lower ledges as the visitors talk. They have not been fed for some time. Each of […]
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A Houston garage, a day of chores, a seventeen-year-old shifting a stepfather’s boxes to the curb. Then a box that is not his: lid torn, a peppery smell coming out of it, and inside, under a few Russian horoscope pamphlets, a magazine she has seen exactly once before, when her mother showed it to her […]
Halfway through, there is a costume ball in a medieval cloister at the northern tip of Manhattan. The theme is Edith Wharton. A girl from a small town has come dressed in red, which in Wharton’s world is how a society marks a woman as finished; the boy who is in love with her has […]