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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 →

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 →

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 →

Flying Solo by Linda Holmes
fiction / review

Flying Solo by Linda Holmes

Posted on June 18, 2022 by Rachel • 1 Comment

Most of Flying Solo was cute enough but what was the point of the duck heist “caper”. It dragged on forever and wasn’t particularly funny or well-paced. It almost felt like the whole point was to drag the brother up from NYC but why? It didn’t add any value to the storyline or give depth … Continue reading →

The Second Mother: A Novel by Jenny Milchman
fiction / mystery / review

The Second Mother: A Novel by Jenny Milchman

Posted on May 26, 2022 by Rachel • 1 Comment

I liked the idea of The Second Mother. A woman wanting to start over ends up at a remote island to be the teacher after the last ones left. I don’t think the book needed the mystery element which might have been part of why it felt flat. Nothing sat right about the ages to … Continue reading →

Trailed: One Woman’s Quest to Solve the Shenandoah Murders by Kathryn Miles
review / true crime

Trailed: One Woman’s Quest to Solve the Shenandoah Murders by Kathryn Miles

Posted on May 1, 2022 by Rachel • 4 Comments

I generally like true crime best when it’s written by a woman, especially if the victim(s) are women. That is the case in Trailed so I felt like I was predisposed to like the book and for the most part, I did. Kathryn Miles certainly put a lot of effort and thought into solving the … Continue reading →

Portrait of a Thief by Grace D. Li
fiction

Portrait of a Thief by Grace D. Li

Posted on April 24, 2022 by Rachel • 1 Comment

Loved the concept! Stylish cover! I think Portrait of a Thief would make a great movie or limited tv series. I didn’t feel like it was as good of a book as it could have been. I wish it had been just from two points of view (or one!). I liked the characters and they … Continue reading →

Letter to a Stranger: Essays to the Ones Who Haunt Us Edited by Colleen Kinder
essays / nonfiction

Letter to a Stranger: Essays to the Ones Who Haunt Us Edited by Colleen Kinder

Posted on March 26, 2022 by Rachel • Leave a comment

I joined a virtual book tour for Letter to a Stranger because the concept was so fun! I spent a lot of time pre-pandemic eavesdropping and wondering about the people I encountered in my every day life so a book of essays about the strangers that drift in and out of all our lives. This … Continue reading →

The Verifiers by Jane Pek 
mystery / review / suspense

The Verifiers by Jane Pek 

Posted on March 3, 2022 by Rachel • 1 Comment

There is a lot to love about The Verifiers by Jane Pek. The interesting main character, a timely mystery about the ethics of online dating and data collection, a mysterious research group/detective agency, sibling and parent issues, urban bike riding, a realistic NYC backdrop. So much material and depth there. What dropped it down to three … Continue reading →

Admissions: A Memoir of Surviving Boarding School by Kendra James
memoir / nonfiction / review

Admissions: A Memoir of Surviving Boarding School by Kendra James

Posted on February 5, 2022 by Rachel • 1 Comment

The first section of Admissions was great but faltered about two-thirds in. I wish she had talked about school and then had an afterward where she talked about current issues and how she got into recruiting. That was sort of sprinkled in and at times I didn’t think it made sense to juxtapose it with … Continue reading →

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