April Reading Recap
Satanic Panic, underwater experiments, a haunting deer, immigration, how the 1% live, underwater experiments, love triangles, pseudoscience, mental illness awareness, and sociopaths
March Reading Recap
Mean Girls, sudden deafness, espionage, psychedelic trips, not-so-American dreams, gangsters and murders, scammers, and cozy small towns
February Reading Recap
Sign language, aliens, death doulas, friendship, art heists, hallucinogens, if paintings could tell a story, and shapeshifters
January Reading Recap
Doctors on Mt. Everest, body switching, secret police, Uncle Jesse, the search for a long lost sunken ship, the depths of the ocean, and fever dreams
2023 Holiday Roundup
Rounding out the year with some best books of 2023
November Reading Recap
Amnesia, hereditary supernatural powers, a spicy love affair, Ted Bundy fictionalized, chronic illness, a simple New England house, a land to get lost in, reimagined fairy tales, frat crime, and the real story of breaking out of Auschwitz
October Reading Recap
A tragedy on the set of a children’s show, schizophrenia, a 65-year-old assassin, another haunted house, a language school shrouded in darkness, a cannibal couple, a book made into a movie, a house squatter, a spoooooky anthology, Mandan people, and Britney Spears
September Reading Recap
A Halloween murder, a trip through time and space, old-timey Hollywood, a haunted house, the Elon Musk effect, that feel good dopamine, a fake pregnancy to get out of work, and the disappearance of memories
August Reading Recap
An Irish village with a dark secret, a piano prodigy, climate change deniers, a kidnapped woman living in a shed, history’s most stupid geniuses, and the unfair treatment of Oppenheimer
July Reading Recap
Tackling poverty, the lives of wives of strange writers, what to pack to go to Mars, the space race, talking animals giving advice, a not-so-evil demon, a not-so-hidden cult, and a clone of a murdered woman
June Reading Recap
The rise of HBO, women journalist who’ve change the world, the father of science, a mammoth coming back to life, shipwreck and mutiny, a wealthy man’s unhappy wife, and Andy Cohen’s innermost thoughts
May Reading Recap
A fictional biography, childhood friendship, Edgar Allan Poe’s mysterious death, the chemistry of cooking, family witchcraft, and classic horror movies
April Reading Recap
Searching for paradise, a group of gardeners, a New York publisher, succession, mushrooms, and a murder in the Swiss Alps
March Reading Recap
Book eating people, dystopian worlds, a murder at a boarding school, and true stories from New York’s food scene
February Reading Recap
Rural Ireland, stolen bass guitars, mysterious disappearance of planes, true stories of strange sleep conditions, violin conspiracies, psychotherapists, a crazy mothers-in-law, secret animal preservations, and a Real Housewives star
January Reading Recap
A redheaded prince, a ballerina, a secret passageway, video games, Spice Girls, punk rock, and more coffee
My Favorite Books of 2022
Giving you the best/worst books I’ve read in 2022
2022 Holiday Roundup
Rounding up the best books on NPR’s 2023 list