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Here are the books we’ve read so far. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acd041f5417fc83115c6a71/1541818938319-PVWWMHOBINNQ7MLUDGF7/image-asset.jpeg CURRENT SERIES - WOMEN’S FICTION SERIES This series includes the best fiction by women writers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acd041f5417fc83115c6a71/1558557142636-9BS0W2JGSNO3IKDB34EF/IMG_8256.JPG CURRENT SERIES - PLace/Space Series This series includes fiction that centers the role of place in identity and story. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acd041f5417fc83115c6a71/1559853441756-NAO1M2SMADTNTPCSPL3U/DCC677C5-43D5-47AA-B75B-7C81428190A0.JPG CURRENT SERIES - Women’s Nonfiction Series All the latest nonfiction books by women writers covering a variety of subjects and lives. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acd041f5417fc83115c6a71/1563902647920-O761WXD2FNTJXVI1ZVXI/9F26FEA9-C04E-4297-8541-BB9B74D98766.JPG CURRENT SERIES - The Future Is Female Series Books that are female focused, contain strong female relationships, or offer feminist features. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acd041f5417fc83115c6a71/1579813157353-T4C66CRULHB1HUE33V8N/0035C17D-6E84-43B8-B412-4F4C918759F8.JPG CURRENT SERIES - The Power of Narrative Series Each of the books in this series uses narrative elements in a particular way to highlight the power of the story. By looking at the diversity of narrative technique, readers can see how narrative can be constructed to feature certain points. https://www.itslitbooks.com/what-were-reading-nonfiction daily 0.75 2025-11-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acd041f5417fc83115c6a71/1542071671309-A71IL8BUCH15IMWCVDR5/IMG_4944.JPG WHAT WE'RE READING: NONFICTION https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acd041f5417fc83115c6a71/5d59f212-353f-4af2-a65d-5eb44dfc4177/Screenshot+2025-11-18+at+10.59.15+AM.png WHAT WE'RE READING: NONFICTION - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acd041f5417fc83115c6a71/5d59f212-353f-4af2-a65d-5eb44dfc4177/Screenshot+2025-11-18+at+10.59.15+AM.png WHAT WE'RE READING: NONFICTION - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acd041f5417fc83115c6a71/1640893732176-NZ8KCGIQ4VZN479WN8FE/IMG_4527+2.jpg WHAT WE'RE READING: NONFICTION https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acd041f5417fc83115c6a71/1640893118960-AZRRI68DJZ99YP3N2KSO/IMG_6619.jpg WHAT WE'RE READING: NONFICTION https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acd041f5417fc83115c6a71/1640893242396-2NNSEMNRAYIJ09N0CJNI/IMG_7264.jpg WHAT WE'RE READING: NONFICTION https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acd041f5417fc83115c6a71/1640893177583-HGBE0CM9CBWZ3FSQYKID/IMG_7177.jpg WHAT WE'RE READING: NONFICTION https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acd041f5417fc83115c6a71/1640893335025-LL8FF9GOUUCMCXCRY4UZ/IMG_5894+2.jpg WHAT WE'RE READING: NONFICTION https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acd041f5417fc83115c6a71/1640893119238-TFSUEW5NXWTOI5YL1839/IMG_6620.jpg WHAT WE'RE READING: NONFICTION https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acd041f5417fc83115c6a71/1640893731998-YM51ZWIUB8666KNWB0YC/IMG_7096.jpg WHAT WE'RE READING: NONFICTION https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acd041f5417fc83115c6a71/1640893121207-1TPEX496DWAYXM2047J2/IMG_6633.jpg WHAT WE'RE READING: NONFICTION https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acd041f5417fc83115c6a71/1640893947301-F2GS1UCHUYQLCC754O1S/IMG_5058.jpg WHAT WE'RE READING: NONFICTION https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acd041f5417fc83115c6a71/1640893728492-L1CQVDFPX20UZS2WS7YZ/IMG_0730.jpg WHAT WE'RE READING: NONFICTION https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acd041f5417fc83115c6a71/1640893947223-GXIS3LZNNESBVM5WAJQC/IMG_5057.jpg WHAT WE'RE READING: NONFICTION https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acd041f5417fc83115c6a71/1640893729163-RSW40KE5L7V2YX00L86B/IMG_3856.jpg WHAT WE'RE READING: NONFICTION https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acd041f5417fc83115c6a71/1576285963304-7ZDN4Z000IL1649OXXCS/91brtaH3JLL._AC_UY218_ML3_.jpg WHAT WE'RE READING: NONFICTION https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acd041f5417fc83115c6a71/1542072119128-W962BIB2G2ZRFWXRPYQG/download+%2810%29.jpeg WHAT WE'RE READING: NONFICTION https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acd041f5417fc83115c6a71/1562119547085-AKVULLES1M3DDGCBHP8O/51RD7cKm8pL._SX329_BO1%2C204%2C203%2C200_.jpg WHAT WE'RE READING: NONFICTION https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acd041f5417fc83115c6a71/1562119301100-MQINBMCRSBU2JI45DNNB/51wT15JnjKL._SX329_BO1%2C204%2C203%2C200_.jpg WHAT WE'RE READING: NONFICTION https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acd041f5417fc83115c6a71/1592157928322-A3DAA05DFZT491F1GO8O/41bSP60Oa2L._SX336_BO1%2C204%2C203%2C200_.jpg WHAT WE'RE READING: NONFICTION https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acd041f5417fc83115c6a71/1592157916356-7E67F3JCGABD9YY63HW9/51X2Qat32TL._SX331_BO1%2C204%2C203%2C200_.jpg WHAT WE'RE READING: NONFICTION https://www.itslitbooks.com/what-members-think daily 0.75 2026-02-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acd041f5417fc83115c6a71/1542171465486-WK2WG2GMW6IRAJFGERIK/IMG_5184.JPG WHAT MEMBERS THINK https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acd041f5417fc83115c6a71/1542171641248-RKP0NXIC57MR1WEP6UE0/IMG_4523.JPG WHAT MEMBERS THINK “I have so enjoyed being part of IT’S LIT! I always loved reading, but found life has interrupted that passion. Nikki’s selections are wonderful—not always books I’d pick for myself, but I am grateful to have spent time with each one. I look forward to our monthly gatherings for great conversations, thought-provoking questions, and my friends’s insights. You need IT’S LIT in your life!” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acd041f5417fc83115c6a71/1542171944583-OG0QBL3IQLI2FJ6BGAOD/IMG_5179.JPG WHAT MEMBERS THINK “As a lifelong lover of books, I would like to express my gratitude for Nikki and IT’S LIT. The club is such a welcome addition to my life. IT’S LIT provides a reading list that is engaging, current, well-rounded, entertaining, and, above all, thought-provoking. Nikki provides considerate direction in the reading process and supports the readership through insightful questions.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acd041f5417fc83115c6a71/1542172461703-MXISXI8SZVOR4CE3BG1S/IMG_3770.JPG WHAT MEMBERS THINK “…the vibe is anything but ‘your mother’s book club.’ IT’S LIT combines all types of people with welcoming, engrossing and stimulating atmosphere. More than anything, it’s fun! I would whole-heartedly recommend IT’S LIT to all my friends, even those friends (perhaps, especially those friends) who haven’t enjoyed reading in the past. I have met such wonderful new people, learned so much about the world and myself, and look forward to the next book and meeting!” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acd041f5417fc83115c6a71/1542171641248-RKP0NXIC57MR1WEP6UE0/IMG_4523.JPG WHAT MEMBERS THINK “I have so enjoyed being part of IT’S LIT! I always loved reading, but found life has interrupted that passion. Nikki’s selections are wonderful—not always books I’d pick for myself, but I am grateful to have spent time with each one. I look forward to our monthly gatherings for great conversations, thought-provoking questions, and my friends’s insights. You need IT’S LIT in your life!” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acd041f5417fc83115c6a71/1542171944583-OG0QBL3IQLI2FJ6BGAOD/IMG_5179.JPG WHAT MEMBERS THINK “As a lifelong lover of books, I would like to express my gratitude for Nikki and IT’S LIT. The club is such a welcome addition to my life. IT’S LIT provides a reading list that is engaging, current, well-rounded, entertaining, and, above all, thought-provoking. Nikki provides considerate direction in the reading process and supports the readership through insightful questions.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acd041f5417fc83115c6a71/1542172461703-MXISXI8SZVOR4CE3BG1S/IMG_3770.JPG WHAT MEMBERS THINK “…the vibe is anything but ‘your mother’s book club.’ IT’S LIT combines all types of people with welcoming, engrossing and stimulating atmosphere. More than anything, it’s fun! I would whole-heartedly recommend IT’S LIT to all my friends, even those friends (perhaps, especially those friends) who haven’t enjoyed reading in the past. I have met such wonderful new people, learned so much about the world and myself, and look forward to the next book and meeting!” https://www.itslitbooks.com/new-page daily 0.75 2026-02-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acd041f5417fc83115c6a71/1587505888189-VBECJK92ZZ10XMWK39XO/9E33FC3E-C381-4172-A5A1-38E17CEA0693.jpg VIRTUAL BOOK CLUB https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acd041f5417fc83115c6a71/1587505888189-VBECJK92ZZ10XMWK39XO/9E33FC3E-C381-4172-A5A1-38E17CEA0693.jpg VIRTUAL BOOK CLUB https://www.itslitbooks.com/bookreviews daily 0.75 2026-02-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acd041f5417fc83115c6a71/1592267995175-R4TCZBGN8ZBE2XZ3HDYJ/IMG_5619.jpg BOOK REVIEWS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acd041f5417fc83115c6a71/df548b17-9c3a-439a-a0a0-56268fa9cdaa/IMG_6777.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - Make it stand out YELLOWFACE By R.F. Kuang SYNOPSIS: June Hayward is a struggling author jealous of her more successful Yalie friend, Athena Liu. When a certain turn of events occur, June steps into the literary spotlight; but at what cost? This book is smart and funny and provocative. R.F. Kuang interrogates the literary world, the publishing industry, and social media. She interrogates racism and raises questions about authenticity, cultural appropriation, authorship, and the creative process. The fictional novel reads like a memoir written by the fictional character, June, a white woman; but R.F. Kuang is continuously playing with genre and the expectations of her readers. The narrative voice is oftentimes unlikable, self-aggrandizing, and just an over-all “Karen” but at other times the narrative voice is smart, funny, and probing. This is the true talent of Kuang—constructing a fully immersive text that has continuous meta-commentary on creation, authorship, voice, and authenticity. As we move more and more into a post-post-modern world we have sometimes found ourselves trapped by our own desires for “authenticity” and finding the “authentic voice.” Our world has both expanded and contracted. Discourse has both opened and been closed off. Knowledge has become both more accessible and more limited. And this novel calls attention to it all. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acd041f5417fc83115c6a71/fdbe6e1b-d4d8-422a-b0f9-a50613074fbc/IMG_0665.jpg BOOK REVIEWS KAIKEYI By Vaishnavi Patel “I was born on the full moon under an auspicious constellation, the holiest of positions—much good it did me.” SYNOPSIS: Kaikeyi is the only girl born to the kingdom of Kekaya and is married off to the King of Ayodhya. Within the strict confines of patriarchy, Kaikeyi rises to a prominent position in court alongside her husband, builds a women’s council, and helps change the fate of women in her new kingdom. I loved everything about this novel: the story is compelling, the writing is beautiful, the character of Kaikeyi is well developed, strong, and interesting. This is mythic retelling at its best for sure. Patel takes a despised woman of the Ramayana and gives her the fullness and richness she deserves. Rather than continuing to be resigned to the role of “evil stepmother” of Rama, Patel’s Kaikeyi has good intentions, power, strength, intellect, kindness, and a life that is all her own. For fans of Circe, The Silence of the Girls, Homefire…but also for fans of Children of Blood and Bone and The Gilded Ones. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acd041f5417fc83115c6a71/300de193-bebd-4f12-b073-158ef7acdc97/IMG_6087.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - Make it stand out DEMON COPPERHEAD By Barbara Kingslover SYNOPSIS: In this novel, Kingslover fascinatingly stitches together the incredible character portrait of Demon Copperhead. A bildingsroman that heavily alludes to David Copperfield by Dickens, this is a modern telling of an age-old story of coming-of-age amongst hardship and loss. Honestly, there was a moment where I almost gave up on this book because I was going through a hard time in my personal life and reading about Demon’s hardships was almost too much. But I am so grateful I pushed forward at the encouragement of a friend because I really did become so invested in this incredible, flawed, courageous, humorous, tenacious character. Kingslover is an expert at her craft and her devotion to the literary legacy of Copperfield is something to admire, especially because she makes it all seem so fresh and new. Demon struggles and watching him struggle and watching him get through those struggles was hard but also I was rooting for him. I highly recommend reading this for yourself to watch a master at her craft create a deep character study. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acd041f5417fc83115c6a71/6201a9df-61ce-469c-991a-51388d9052f0/image0+%285%29.jpeg BOOK REVIEWS OUR LITTLE WORLD By Karen Winn SYNOPSIS: Set in the ‘80s in a small, idyllic New Jersey town, Our Little World is a stunning coming-of-age novel with a looming mystery at its core. Soon-to-be seventh grader Bee and her sister, Audrina, are excited when Max and his little sister, Sally, move in across the street. But what begins as a usual fun-filled summer—playing kickball in their cul-de-sac and swimming at the local haunts—quickly turns dark when Sally goes missing at the town lake. In the aftermath, Bee and Audrina’s little world cracks, both inside the home—as secrets, guilt, and jealousy come between them—and outside of it, as the illusion of stability in their close-knit community is shattered. This novel is part nostalgia, part a beautiful reflection of grief, part coming-of-age. Karen Winn is able to expertly inhabit the mind of a young middle-school aged girl, who is self focused, awkward, unsure, and lonely. The novel reminded me so much of what it felt like to be young and trying to figure out your place in your little world, while at the same time interpreting the relationships and people around you. Our Little World examines what it means to live in a small community, what it means to have a sister, what it means to be left in the wake of tragedy and grief, and what it means to go on. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acd041f5417fc83115c6a71/490c3b7d-3837-4947-a31f-f35fe2aa9210/IMG_6717.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - Make it stand out I HAVE SOME QUESTIONS FOR YOU By Rebecca Makkai SYNOPSIS: Bodie Kane is a podcaster who has spent her career unearthing the stories of women when she goes back to her boarding school for a two week teaching gig. While there, Bodie is drawn back into the mysterious death of her junior-year roommate, Thalia Kieth. ⠀ This was a fun and exciting page-turner that kept me interested and offered a little bit of a different type of whodunnit. While offering the reader a murder-mystery, the book also interrogates our cultural fascination with true crime and the ethical implications of being a producer and/or consumer of this genre. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acd041f5417fc83115c6a71/246c8a23-c3b1-4608-943a-d42ac7676685/IMG_0456.jpg BOOK REVIEWS SEA OF TRANQUILITY By Emily St. John Mandel SYNOPSIS: Set in the future, a detective is hired to investigate an anomaly in the North American wilderness. While time jumping, Gaspery uncovers a series of lives upended but always connected. The Sea of Tranquility is a rumination about time, space, and the connections that exist between us, always. Of the last three books written by this author, I actually find this latest installment to be a great surprise. While I enjoyed the limited series of Station Eleven and was intrigued by the story, I actually did not love the book itself. And The Glass Castle fell short for me. But Sea of Tranquility has hit the mark for me in so many ways. Emily St. John Mandel always has a preoccupation with connections and the ways in which characters's lives come into contact with each other in small and subtle ways. Here, this preoccupation is given even more depth through time travel. The author is able to use her story and characters to tap into the metaphysical and bring out deep questions about existence, reality, knowing, and ways of being. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acd041f5417fc83115c6a71/6af2e924-a38d-4d85-85fc-9d8bc99af4f7/IMG_5355.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - Make it stand out CRYING IN H MART By Michelle Zauner In this memoir, Michelle Zauner recounts her mother's battle with cancer and her grief at such a profound loss. Through the lens of grief, Zauner crafts a beautifully emotional story about her family, identity, culture, food, and connection. This book made me remember tastes and smells from my own childhood and the connections of those tastes to my grandmother, who I lost just a year ago. Being mixed race Asian American like Zauner, her affective connections to Korean culture through her mother and food resonated so much for me and made me think of all the ways these same affective ties bind me to my own mother and grandmother. So much of my understanding of that part of my identity is tied to my mother, to the food, to the small every day intimacies of my home and the way that Zauner wrote about this loss broke me down and made me long for that same bowl of warm soup she describes in her book (mine would be a Hawaiian version of soup--saimin). At times in the earlier essays, the writing felt a bit repetitive but over the course of the memoir, Zauner found her footing. Her vulnerability and openness with her grief was palpable, at times, so raw it cut through to some of the deepest fears of bodily fragility we all hold down inside. In the end, I can't imagine what it took for Michelle Zauner put this to the page, to write through these feelings; but, I am grateful that she did it so I could feel these feels and find these connections. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acd041f5417fc83115c6a71/6fa7d033-6609-440b-90c9-16b49c7d654e/IMG_6632.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - Make it stand out PROJECT HAIL MARY By Andy Weir A man finds himself in space, alone, and unable to remember who he is or why he's there. Ryland Grace is on a last-chance mission to save the earth. Can he remember who he is, why he's there, and what he needs to do to complete his mission? This is an incredible story about discovery, survival, and humanity woven carefully together by an expert storyteller. For all the science fiction fans out there, this book is definitely for you. Weir weaves an adventure that unfolds slowly as both the reader and the protagonist unfurl the truth of the mission, the desperation that landed humanity in this position, and the hope the protagonist represents. Like Weir's other work, this novel felt crafted as a plausible scientific possibility in the distant future rather than a speculative improbability, which I attribute to the author's use of careful scientific data and information. I'm no scientist, but it felt real. This novel was a great escape and a compulsive read that I could not put down. One of the best books I read this year. Definitely recommending to everyone! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acd041f5417fc83115c6a71/2086f122-0264-4891-80b4-30eb07a2281f/IMG_6633.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - Make it stand out GIRLHOOD By Melissa Febos This is a spectacular set of essays examining the stories that women are told about what it means to be a girl, what it means to be a woman, in this world. Featuring personal narratives woven in with gender theory, psychoanalytic theory, and investigative reporting, Febos gives readers depth and breadth in this collection backed with scholarship. This book looks closely at all the ways in which young girls are told stories about themselves from media, from family, from friends, from the larger society that all work to shape the contours of what each girl thinks is possible or permissible both for what she can do and what can be done to her. This book offers a deep look into all the ways in which women sacrifice their bodies, their desires, their feelings, their comfort, their safety, their worth, their knowledge, their truth and what we can do to fight against the many ways that this occurs over a life. Bringing attention to the ways in which "girlhood" is formulated and all the messaging that women receive, Febos is accessing another fighting point for women against the confines of patriarchal structure. This is a must read. If you identify as a woman or if you love women and care about women, then you should read this. It is accessible and easy to read but full and deep. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acd041f5417fc83115c6a71/1634141184744-SFOCW11I8PJMIUB88MEQ/IMG_4382.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - Make it stand out HOW THE ONE-ARMED SISTER SWEEPS HER HOUSE By Cherie Jones On the island of Barbados, Lala lives with her husband, Adan, in the town of Baxter's Beach. After Adan's botched burglary of one of the beach villas, a chain reaction of terrible consequences ensues. Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2021. This book is an orchestra of voices that is both unrelenting and brave. While the book seems harsh and brutal for most of its breadth, dealing with dark and heavy incidences over and over again, it is also compelling and compulsive. While there seems to be little hope in Baxter's Beach, the author skillfully depicts the impact of violence and the cyclical nature of oppression. Through the carefully constructed ensemble of voices, the reader is able to see the author's indictment not of the individual characters themselves but the systems of colonialism, capitalism, and patriarchy that have entrapped them all. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acd041f5417fc83115c6a71/1634140924815-YJSW1CNOGFRKEUZ2V6QJ/IMG_2153.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - Make it stand out THE MOUNTAINS SING By Nguyen Phan Que Mai Stringing together the history of their family, Húóng and her grandmother Diêu Lan intricately weave the story of their family with the history of Vietnam. Told from an intimate perspective, this novel depicts the heartaches and hopes of a family fighting to survive in a country ravaged by war and colonialism. Despite the traumas these women endure, the novel focuses on love, on family, and the beauty of hope. Many war novels focus on war, on trauma, on fighting, but this novel offers us love and strength and family instead. I loved how the author intertwined the stories of Guava and her grandmother, and used the strength of storytelling to carry on the history but also the hope of this family. What struck me most, was the immense love and strength of Diêu Lan who suffered greatly in her life but, in the end, was still able to offer love to her children and grandchildren. She was the heart of this novel for me and listening to her story made me miss my own grandmother immensely. While my grandmother and Diêu Lan had vastly different lives and experiences, Diêu Lan reminded me that there is so much about the lives of our elders that we do not know or understand, there is so much untold to us. I wish I could hear my grandmother’s story the way in which Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai was able to tell the story of Diêu Lan. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acd041f5417fc83115c6a71/1634141125158-GNIB99OTVLTQHPI22Q8E/IMG_5214.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - Make it stand out BEAUTIFUL WORLD, WHERE ARE YOU By Sally Rooney Alice is taking solace in a small town where she meets Felix on a dating app. Eileen is living in Dublin and unsure of where she is in her life. As the two women write to each other and go on about their lives, they each find some beauty and love in the world. Sally Rooney has definitely developed a distinct writing style that is able to capture so much of the way people interact. Just like her other books, Rooney is able to unfold her characters before us slowly and intimately over time. Nothing is rushed. Nothing is without purpose. The connection we find at the end of the novel is indicative of Rooney’s carefully orchestrated ensemble. While I loved a lot of this book, there were many times where the “problems” these women faced (which were big to them) were problems of privilege without always a recognition of that privilege. I think sometimes the author tried to acknowledge that position of her characters but it often failed for me. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acd041f5417fc83115c6a71/1634139703659-T4BQV3CL8DXY8M7HJ600/image1+%281%29.jpeg BOOK REVIEWS - Make it stand out YOLK By Mary H.K Choi Two estranged sisters living in NYC are brought back together after the one is diagnosed with cancer. As they slowly begin to see each other in new ways , they soon realize that they need each other more than they could’ve ever thought. This book took on ideas of perception: of seeing, being seen, hiding oneself, recognition, seeing oneself in so many real and visceral ways. I felt Jayne and I felt June. I felt their misperceptions and their secrets. I felt their insecurity and their desire for recognition. I felt their love and their hate for each other. I felt all the feels while I read this book and so much more. This book lifted me up and gave me a hug when I needed it, gave me a cathartic cry when I needed it, and made my heart swoon when I needed it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acd041f5417fc83115c6a71/1634139768663-3JYXUVD2FXJZUMC2E7MC/IMG_2985.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - Make it stand out THE LAST THING HE TOLD ME By Laura Dave Owen disappears leaving his wife a note with the words: protect her. While Hannah doesn’t fully grasp what has happened to her husband, she quickly understands Owen’s note. What unfolds as Hannah does her best to follow Owen’s wishes is a page-turning novel of buried truths.This book made a great vacation read and kept my interest, especially in the second half of the book. I liked that the author tried to subvert some of the domestic genre’s gender trappings but I found myself wanting more depth or development along the way. This will definitely make a great limited tv series, but it lacked a bit for me as a novel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acd041f5417fc83115c6a71/1634140151916-99G4OXKELGU9AG3ICK4U/IMG_4386.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - Make it stand out THE PAPER PALACE By Miranda Cowley Heller For Elle, the back woods of the Cape hold all her history and all her secrets. As she summers with her family, Elle is confronted with her past and forced to reconcile her feelings of love and loss in this place. What unfolds is a story of family, love, lust, friendship, heartache, loss. This book was a great, fast-paced read that actually had some bigger issues under the surface. It’s been a minute since I felt obsessed with a story but I couldn’t put this book down. Now, it’s definitely not one of my usual-type reads that tackle social, political, racial, historical issues but it was (for me) just what I needed for the end of the summer. The writing was vivid and the author was able to expertly create this incredible back woods scene. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acd041f5417fc83115c6a71/1614735913037-AEQC5ED7AKX2VT0VQSND/IMG_0316.jpg BOOK REVIEWS DETRANSITION BABY By Torrey Peters This novel follows the interconnected stories of Reese, Ames, and Katrina who are all navigating the complexities of womanhood, gender, pregnancy, and kinship. This book is so full and complex and surprisingly witty, but what I loved the most was how fully realized and well developed the characters were. When you begin the novel, you are given one perspective of each character that could easily be all that they are, but over the course of the novel Torrey Peters carefully unfolds all the deep intricacies that make each character who they are. Revealed piece by piece through vignettes about certain pivotal experiences in their pasts or present, Torrey Peters is able to achieve an intimacy between reader and characters that mirrors the intimacy that comes over time in real relationships. Through the writing, Peters slowly breaks down each character's defenses to reveal the most real desires and dreams, insecurities, pain, and love. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acd041f5417fc83115c6a71/1614735862014-414C8W42C5JD72E1QNEZ/IMG_0916.jpg BOOK REVIEWS INFINITE COUNTRY By Patricia Engel After the birth of their first child, Mauro takes his family from their home in Colombia to the United States. The family moves as Mauro tries to find work, but the family isn’t able to find the stability it seeks. After having more children, Mauro and Elena make the hard decision to stay beyond their visas leaving them even more vulnerable as they inhabit an undocumented status. When Mauro is deported, the family becomes split by the borders of the countries they call home. Engel has a beautiful writing style that creates vivid images for her readers. Although the book is short, there is so much packed into its pages and each character is developed and full. Patricia Engel is also able to use her prose to bring into focus a real story of migration that focuses on the struggles that individuals face when they find themselves contained and restrained both in Columbia and the U.S. by larger political issues, and pulled to multiple places that are considered home. Engel problematizes the idea of an “American dream” and the pull and push of migration itself, as well as how borders and boundaries (which are geo-political) affect the actual lives and experiences of people and families. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acd041f5417fc83115c6a71/1614736075840-Q7PT4LWC0CIRTOYLRXZP/IMG_0381.jpg BOOK REVIEWS OUTLAWED By Anna North In the 1890s of this slightly dystopian history, women are only as good as their ability to birth children. Being barren means being a witch and being outcasted from your family. Ava, is a trained as a midwife by her mother but unable to have children of her own. Without pregnancy, she is suspected of witchcraft forcing her to run away in the hopes of escaping punishment. The novel is her journey in this Wild West to find and make a place for herself outside the law. This story was fun and quick to read. Ava’s skill set as a midwife led her to be curious and driven to find answers for herself in a world where medicine and law are being defined and written by men. The novel also subverts the typical western narrative of patriarchy and masculinity through its attention to the outcasted women of the society. While the novel did critique our culture’s own patriarchal obsession with the Wild West, it also missed some very real and complex issues of settler colonialism and racism that are also part of that narrative history. Focusing almost exclusively on a sort of gender play, the novel misses some real opportunities to not only intersect other issues like race or class; but also fails to fully enact its critique of gendered history itself. Even some of its best moments feel like they still don’t push hard enough for me at the type of criticism that could be there. I think that is a personal preference, though, because those are the types of books I tend to like. This is still a fun story that does bring up some good issues about our patriarchal history that I think many readers would enjoy.⠀⠀ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acd041f5417fc83115c6a71/1604010579485-P3RYG7ZD4BH5T7GNX7YP/IMG_8158.jpg BOOK REVIEWS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acd041f5417fc83115c6a71/1604010722479-DRD3PHTZGYDD13ZJGQT7/IMG_8887.jpg BOOK REVIEWS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acd041f5417fc83115c6a71/1604010745448-V2GOSZ5VG68VTAFEJBM1/IMG_8786.jpg BOOK REVIEWS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acd041f5417fc83115c6a71/1600188837052-GW3I2CKI5MUWZROAQQCT/image0.jpg BOOK REVIEWS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acd041f5417fc83115c6a71/1604010838987-AYX4PS0EJNYZPPZO8B1R/IMG_8888.jpg BOOK REVIEWS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acd041f5417fc83115c6a71/1600812129543-0C356WJM5W5MACO7FNYR/IMG_8164.jpg BOOK REVIEWS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acd041f5417fc83115c6a71/1592268117229-K651YZXG6YCWO1RHSOGX/IMG_5753.jpg BOOK REVIEWS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acd041f5417fc83115c6a71/1592269324386-GWNECTWYSXLJBXUS6VTY/IMG_5206.jpg BOOK REVIEWS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acd041f5417fc83115c6a71/1592274544740-8R0UHLKPDJAMUWZ7ZPIA/IMG_5473.jpg BOOK REVIEWS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acd041f5417fc83115c6a71/1592329086044-7A12RFK2AIL720KEZNXT/6A3DB56D-4CF2-4656-AB95-9D495C54658B.JPG BOOK REVIEWS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acd041f5417fc83115c6a71/1592329112846-I0BQNTLEBLA7TCJ45YKU/034CCD29-DCE0-45EA-99A1-39382A2CA91D.JPG BOOK REVIEWS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acd041f5417fc83115c6a71/1592329114921-GTZUGVZYPGRL6JBL5LP1/0C54EC88-7BFB-45F6-AE9E-584BE9D55EB0.JPG BOOK REVIEWS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acd041f5417fc83115c6a71/df548b17-9c3a-439a-a0a0-56268fa9cdaa/IMG_6777.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - Make it stand out YELLOWFACE By R.F. Kuang SYNOPSIS: June Hayward is a struggling author jealous of her more successful Yalie friend, Athena Liu. When a certain turn of events occur, June steps into the literary spotlight; but at what cost? This book is smart and funny and provocative. R.F. Kuang interrogates the literary world, the publishing industry, and social media. She interrogates racism and raises questions about authenticity, cultural appropriation, authorship, and the creative process. The fictional novel reads like a memoir written by the fictional character, June, a white woman; but R.F. Kuang is continuously playing with genre and the expectations of her readers. The narrative voice is oftentimes unlikable, self-aggrandizing, and just an over-all “Karen” but at other times the narrative voice is smart, funny, and probing. This is the true talent of Kuang—constructing a fully immersive text that has continuous meta-commentary on creation, authorship, voice, and authenticity. As we move more and more into a post-post-modern world we have sometimes found ourselves trapped by our own desires for “authenticity” and finding the “authentic voice.” Our world has both expanded and contracted. Discourse has both opened and been closed off. Knowledge has become both more accessible and more limited. And this novel calls attention to it all. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acd041f5417fc83115c6a71/fdbe6e1b-d4d8-422a-b0f9-a50613074fbc/IMG_0665.jpg BOOK REVIEWS KAIKEYI By Vaishnavi Patel “I was born on the full moon under an auspicious constellation, the holiest of positions—much good it did me.” SYNOPSIS: Kaikeyi is the only girl born to the kingdom of Kekaya and is married off to the King of Ayodhya. Within the strict confines of patriarchy, Kaikeyi rises to a prominent position in court alongside her husband, builds a women’s council, and helps change the fate of women in her new kingdom. I loved everything about this novel: the story is compelling, the writing is beautiful, the character of Kaikeyi is well developed, strong, and interesting. This is mythic retelling at its best for sure. Patel takes a despised woman of the Ramayana and gives her the fullness and richness she deserves. Rather than continuing to be resigned to the role of “evil stepmother” of Rama, Patel’s Kaikeyi has good intentions, power, strength, intellect, kindness, and a life that is all her own. For fans of Circe, The Silence of the Girls, Homefire…but also for fans of Children of Blood and Bone and The Gilded Ones. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acd041f5417fc83115c6a71/300de193-bebd-4f12-b073-158ef7acdc97/IMG_6087.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - Make it stand out DEMON COPPERHEAD By Barbara Kingslover SYNOPSIS: In this novel, Kingslover fascinatingly stitches together the incredible character portrait of Demon Copperhead. A bildingsroman that heavily alludes to David Copperfield by Dickens, this is a modern telling of an age-old story of coming-of-age amongst hardship and loss. Honestly, there was a moment where I almost gave up on this book because I was going through a hard time in my personal life and reading about Demon’s hardships was almost too much. But I am so grateful I pushed forward at the encouragement of a friend because I really did become so invested in this incredible, flawed, courageous, humorous, tenacious character. Kingslover is an expert at her craft and her devotion to the literary legacy of Copperfield is something to admire, especially because she makes it all seem so fresh and new. Demon struggles and watching him struggle and watching him get through those struggles was hard but also I was rooting for him. I highly recommend reading this for yourself to watch a master at her craft create a deep character study. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acd041f5417fc83115c6a71/6201a9df-61ce-469c-991a-51388d9052f0/image0+%285%29.jpeg BOOK REVIEWS OUR LITTLE WORLD By Karen Winn SYNOPSIS: Set in the ‘80s in a small, idyllic New Jersey town, Our Little World is a stunning coming-of-age novel with a looming mystery at its core. Soon-to-be seventh grader Bee and her sister, Audrina, are excited when Max and his little sister, Sally, move in across the street. But what begins as a usual fun-filled summer—playing kickball in their cul-de-sac and swimming at the local haunts—quickly turns dark when Sally goes missing at the town lake. In the aftermath, Bee and Audrina’s little world cracks, both inside the home—as secrets, guilt, and jealousy come between them—and outside of it, as the illusion of stability in their close-knit community is shattered. This novel is part nostalgia, part a beautiful reflection of grief, part coming-of-age. Karen Winn is able to expertly inhabit the mind of a young middle-school aged girl, who is self focused, awkward, unsure, and lonely. The novel reminded me so much of what it felt like to be young and trying to figure out your place in your little world, while at the same time interpreting the relationships and people around you. Our Little World examines what it means to live in a small community, what it means to have a sister, what it means to be left in the wake of tragedy and grief, and what it means to go on. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acd041f5417fc83115c6a71/490c3b7d-3837-4947-a31f-f35fe2aa9210/IMG_6717.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - Make it stand out I HAVE SOME QUESTIONS FOR YOU By Rebecca Makkai SYNOPSIS: Bodie Kane is a podcaster who has spent her career unearthing the stories of women when she goes back to her boarding school for a two week teaching gig. While there, Bodie is drawn back into the mysterious death of her junior-year roommate, Thalia Kieth. ⠀ This was a fun and exciting page-turner that kept me interested and offered a little bit of a different type of whodunnit. While offering the reader a murder-mystery, the book also interrogates our cultural fascination with true crime and the ethical implications of being a producer and/or consumer of this genre. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acd041f5417fc83115c6a71/246c8a23-c3b1-4608-943a-d42ac7676685/IMG_0456.jpg BOOK REVIEWS SEA OF TRANQUILITY By Emily St. John Mandel SYNOPSIS: Set in the future, a detective is hired to investigate an anomaly in the North American wilderness. While time jumping, Gaspery uncovers a series of lives upended but always connected. The Sea of Tranquility is a rumination about time, space, and the connections that exist between us, always. Of the last three books written by this author, I actually find this latest installment to be a great surprise. While I enjoyed the limited series of Station Eleven and was intrigued by the story, I actually did not love the book itself. And The Glass Castle fell short for me. But Sea of Tranquility has hit the mark for me in so many ways. Emily St. John Mandel always has a preoccupation with connections and the ways in which characters's lives come into contact with each other in small and subtle ways. Here, this preoccupation is given even more depth through time travel. The author is able to use her story and characters to tap into the metaphysical and bring out deep questions about existence, reality, knowing, and ways of being. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acd041f5417fc83115c6a71/6af2e924-a38d-4d85-85fc-9d8bc99af4f7/IMG_5355.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - Make it stand out CRYING IN H MART By Michelle Zauner In this memoir, Michelle Zauner recounts her mother's battle with cancer and her grief at such a profound loss. Through the lens of grief, Zauner crafts a beautifully emotional story about her family, identity, culture, food, and connection. This book made me remember tastes and smells from my own childhood and the connections of those tastes to my grandmother, who I lost just a year ago. Being mixed race Asian American like Zauner, her affective connections to Korean culture through her mother and food resonated so much for me and made me think of all the ways these same affective ties bind me to my own mother and grandmother. So much of my understanding of that part of my identity is tied to my mother, to the food, to the small every day intimacies of my home and the way that Zauner wrote about this loss broke me down and made me long for that same bowl of warm soup she describes in her book (mine would be a Hawaiian version of soup--saimin). At times in the earlier essays, the writing felt a bit repetitive but over the course of the memoir, Zauner found her footing. Her vulnerability and openness with her grief was palpable, at times, so raw it cut through to some of the deepest fears of bodily fragility we all hold down inside. In the end, I can't imagine what it took for Michelle Zauner put this to the page, to write through these feelings; but, I am grateful that she did it so I could feel these feels and find these connections. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acd041f5417fc83115c6a71/6fa7d033-6609-440b-90c9-16b49c7d654e/IMG_6632.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - Make it stand out PROJECT HAIL MARY By Andy Weir A man finds himself in space, alone, and unable to remember who he is or why he's there. Ryland Grace is on a last-chance mission to save the earth. Can he remember who he is, why he's there, and what he needs to do to complete his mission? This is an incredible story about discovery, survival, and humanity woven carefully together by an expert storyteller. For all the science fiction fans out there, this book is definitely for you. Weir weaves an adventure that unfolds slowly as both the reader and the protagonist unfurl the truth of the mission, the desperation that landed humanity in this position, and the hope the protagonist represents. Like Weir's other work, this novel felt crafted as a plausible scientific possibility in the distant future rather than a speculative improbability, which I attribute to the author's use of careful scientific data and information. I'm no scientist, but it felt real. This novel was a great escape and a compulsive read that I could not put down. One of the best books I read this year. Definitely recommending to everyone! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acd041f5417fc83115c6a71/2086f122-0264-4891-80b4-30eb07a2281f/IMG_6633.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - Make it stand out GIRLHOOD By Melissa Febos This is a spectacular set of essays examining the stories that women are told about what it means to be a girl, what it means to be a woman, in this world. Featuring personal narratives woven in with gender theory, psychoanalytic theory, and investigative reporting, Febos gives readers depth and breadth in this collection backed with scholarship. This book looks closely at all the ways in which young girls are told stories about themselves from media, from family, from friends, from the larger society that all work to shape the contours of what each girl thinks is possible or permissible both for what she can do and what can be done to her. This book offers a deep look into all the ways in which women sacrifice their bodies, their desires, their feelings, their comfort, their safety, their worth, their knowledge, their truth and what we can do to fight against the many ways that this occurs over a life. Bringing attention to the ways in which "girlhood" is formulated and all the messaging that women receive, Febos is accessing another fighting point for women against the confines of patriarchal structure. This is a must read. If you identify as a woman or if you love women and care about women, then you should read this. It is accessible and easy to read but full and deep. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acd041f5417fc83115c6a71/1634141184744-SFOCW11I8PJMIUB88MEQ/IMG_4382.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - Make it stand out HOW THE ONE-ARMED SISTER SWEEPS HER HOUSE By Cherie Jones On the island of Barbados, Lala lives with her husband, Adan, in the town of Baxter's Beach. After Adan's botched burglary of one of the beach villas, a chain reaction of terrible consequences ensues. Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2021. This book is an orchestra of voices that is both unrelenting and brave. While the book seems harsh and brutal for most of its breadth, dealing with dark and heavy incidences over and over again, it is also compelling and compulsive. While there seems to be little hope in Baxter's Beach, the author skillfully depicts the impact of violence and the cyclical nature of oppression. Through the carefully constructed ensemble of voices, the reader is able to see the author's indictment not of the individual characters themselves but the systems of colonialism, capitalism, and patriarchy that have entrapped them all. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acd041f5417fc83115c6a71/1634140924815-YJSW1CNOGFRKEUZ2V6QJ/IMG_2153.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - Make it stand out THE MOUNTAINS SING By Nguyen Phan Que Mai Stringing together the history of their family, Húóng and her grandmother Diêu Lan intricately weave the story of their family with the history of Vietnam. Told from an intimate perspective, this novel depicts the heartaches and hopes of a family fighting to survive in a country ravaged by war and colonialism. Despite the traumas these women endure, the novel focuses on love, on family, and the beauty of hope. Many war novels focus on war, on trauma, on fighting, but this novel offers us love and strength and family instead. I loved how the author intertwined the stories of Guava and her grandmother, and used the strength of storytelling to carry on the history but also the hope of this family. What struck me most, was the immense love and strength of Diêu Lan who suffered greatly in her life but, in the end, was still able to offer love to her children and grandchildren. She was the heart of this novel for me and listening to her story made me miss my own grandmother immensely. While my grandmother and Diêu Lan had vastly different lives and experiences, Diêu Lan reminded me that there is so much about the lives of our elders that we do not know or understand, there is so much untold to us. 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I felt their love and their hate for each other. I felt all the feels while I read this book and so much more. This book lifted me up and gave me a hug when I needed it, gave me a cathartic cry when I needed it, and made my heart swoon when I needed it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5acd041f5417fc83115c6a71/1634139768663-3JYXUVD2FXJZUMC2E7MC/IMG_2985.jpg BOOK REVIEWS - Make it stand out THE LAST THING HE TOLD ME By Laura Dave Owen disappears leaving his wife a note with the words: protect her. While Hannah doesn’t fully grasp what has happened to her husband, she quickly understands Owen’s note. What unfolds as Hannah does her best to follow Owen’s wishes is a page-turning novel of buried truths.This book made a great vacation read and kept my interest, especially in the second half of the book. I liked that the author tried to subvert some of the domestic genre’s gender trappings but I found myself wanting more depth or development along the way. 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