Category Archives: book stores are magic

September has some bad-ass new books that you’ll want to see. Ready? First up is my September pick for the Fantastic Strangeling Book Club: It’s Land of Milk and Honey by C Pam Zhang (the award-winning author of How Much of these Hills is Gold) and it is haunting and strange and the prose isContinue reading “What I read in September.”

It is July and that means it’s time for me to announce my monthly book club picks, which I am very excited about. Our Fantastic Strangelings Book Club pick is How Can I Help You by Laura Sims. It’s about librarians. Librarians and MURDER. (If you’ve been waiting to join the Strangelings this is theContinue reading “July reads. (This will either convince you to join my horror book club or will make you run screaming from it. Choose wisely.)”

I am a few days behind on telling you what books you should read and what authors you should come see (hello, David Sedaris and Samantha Irby) but my kid is graduating from high school in a few weeks and that means time is moving in fast-forward and I am utterly unprepared to handle thisContinue reading “May books light your way”

I’m having 3 ketamine treatments for depression this week and that means I can’t have caffeine or my ADD meds and that means I’ve spent a fair amount of time drifting around the house wondering what it was I was doing, or frantically looking for my phone while it was in my own hand andContinue reading “What to read in April”

How the fuck is March already? I have no idea. But I do know that March has some fantastic books you should check out and two of them are my book picks for the month. First up is my pick for Nightmares from Nowhere, Lone Women by Victor LaValle. I was worried it wouldn’t liveContinue reading “What to read in March.”