The White LadyJacqueline Winspear “She enjoyed this benign memory; there were other strands of reflection reaching back over the years that were akin to electric cables, able to shock if touched. Those hot wires of remembrance were all around her.” Although bombs have stopped falling and soldiers have returned home, the war will never be…
What I read: January 2026
Assassins Anonymous (Assassins Anonymous #1)Rob Hart “That’s why we’re here, dumbass. You can feel bad, and you should. Now you sit with those feelings and take the next right action. Meanwhile, I forgive you, because the person you were then isn’t the person you are today. Welcome to recovery.” Thanks to a secret group for…
A year in reading: 2025
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…
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…
On leaning into reading weirdly
Earlier this year I saw an Instagram post that said our 30s are about learning to revel happily in the things we discovered in our 20s but were too afraid to talk about because people would think we were weird. This is true for many aspects of my life, including my reading. For a long…