Normally when I look back over a year it feels like time has flown. That’s not been the case with 2025. So much has happened, a fair amount of it not great, that I’m not sad to bid it adieu. There are a couple bright spots, though — namely my reading. I decided to lean…
Category: Review
What I read: December 2025
How to be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral QuestionMichael Schur “The most important part of becoming better people, I’ll say yet again, is that we care about whether what we do is good or bad, and therefore try to do the right thing.” When television writer Michael Schur first conceived of the show…
What I read: November 2025
Good Time Girls of the Alaska-Yukon Gold RushLael Morgan “ ‘Guys, if you’re not ready, don’t stand in line!’ “ Prospectors weren’t the only ones who headed north during the gold rushes of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Women couldn’t stake claims, but many were willing to sell whatever talents they had to men…
What I read: October 2025
By GaslightSteven Price “There were leafless trees branched and cold like capillaries in the lungs of the dead and William saw this from the open seat of a rented carriage with a blanket over his knees and a scarf at his throat and he understood he had been waiting for something that had at last…
“The Change” by Kirsten Miller [The Secret Lantern]
Women who live past their youthful, fertile years are often expected to fade into the background. The Change considers what it might be like if we treated middle age and beyond as important as youth. What makes this book magical is the metaphor of menopause as magic — aging as a beginning instead of an…