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How to Survive Everything: A Novel by Ewan Morrison
fiction / review

How to Survive Everything: A Novel by Ewan Morrison

Posted on January 30, 2023 by Rachel • 1 Comment

As you may have noticed I rarely read books by men. It is books like How to Survive Everything by Ewan Morrison that remind me why. Continue reading →

Prom Mom by Laura Lippman
fiction / mystery / suspense / review

Prom Mom by Laura Lippman

Posted on January 23, 2023 by Rachel • 1 Comment

I’m going to start by saying that Prom Mom doesn’t come out until July but I was lucky enough to get an ARC on Netgalley. I wanted to write this while the book was fresh in my mind–as soon it was downloaded I started reading. Continue reading →

Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs by Jamie Loftus
food / food writing / nonfiction / review

Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs by Jamie Loftus

Posted on January 17, 2023 by Rachel • 1 Comment

I was so excited to read Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs by Jamie Loftus that I stopped what I was doing to read the second I got the notification from Netgalley that I got the galley. I had been looking forward to this book since I first saw her tweet about the deal. Continue reading →

Oona Out of Order by Margarita Montimore
fiction / review / time travel

Oona Out of Order by Margarita Montimore

Posted on December 30, 2022 by Rachel • 1 Comment

The year is almost over and I thought I’d end on a high note and read the earlier book of an author who wrote a book that landed on my top books for the year list. I wouldn’t say her more recent book Acts of Violets was great literature and a true classic but it … Continue reading →

The Ugly History of Beautiful Things: Essays on Desire and Consumption by Katy Kelleher
nonfiction / review

The Ugly History of Beautiful Things: Essays on Desire and Consumption by Katy Kelleher

Posted on December 28, 2022 by Rachel • 1 Comment

I was so excited to read this book. It sounded tailor made for me and I’ve followed the author online for a long time. I love the history of objects and reading about our personal connections to them. I just didn’t really enjoy it. I wish she had decided to write a memoir about her … Continue reading →

Vanishing Fleece: Adventures in American Wool by Clara Parkes
crafts / nonfiction / review

Vanishing Fleece: Adventures in American Wool by Clara Parkes

Posted on December 2, 2022 by Rachel • 1 Comment

Vanishing Fleece was fairly interesting but I can’t get over that she built a career of writing about yarn but never, until this book, knew much about how it was made? I still don’t know how much she knows, a lot of the details are a little glossed over—she talks about things like ply, staple … Continue reading →

Fatty Fatty Boom Boom: A Memoir of Food, Fat, and Family by Rabia Chaudry
memoir / review

Fatty Fatty Boom Boom: A Memoir of Food, Fat, and Family by Rabia Chaudry

Posted on November 9, 2022 by Rachel • 1 Comment

I didn’t read her first book until right before I picked this one up. As I read it, I thought she really should have made it a memoir about how she became obsessed with Adan Syed during what seemed like many low points during her life. She talked a lot about her personal life in … Continue reading →

Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing by Matthew Perry
memoir / review

Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing by Matthew Perry

Posted on November 3, 2022 by Rachel • 1 Comment

I will say up front I never really watched Friends, have no real interest in Friends, and even when it was first airing I felt it was an oddly retrograde throwback show to an imaginary all-white NYC where no one really had to work to live. That said, it was impossible to avoid reading about … Continue reading →

Weaving Rag Rugs: A Women’s Craft in Western Maryland by Geraldine Niva Johnson
crafts / nonfiction / review

Weaving Rag Rugs: A Women’s Craft in Western Maryland by Geraldine Niva Johnson

Posted on October 24, 2022 by Rachel • 1 Comment

I enjoyed Weaving Rag Rugs, I think it was her PhD thesis, but I never felt like she answered why rag rug weaving has/had such a stronghold in this particular county in Maryland. Or if it’s not more popular there than in other areas, why chose to focus here? I did get a feel of … Continue reading →

The Year of the Horses: A Memoir by Courtney Maum
memoir / review

The Year of the Horses: A Memoir by Courtney Maum

Posted on September 15, 2022 by Rachel • 1 Comment

I was never a horse girl but I love reading books about people and niche interests. I felt like this was a little flat. Despite her talks about therapy, I felt like there was very little introspection. How did she grow up to be a fatphobic woman with an eating disorder, depression, stagnant marriage who … Continue reading →

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