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My favorite book recs
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items I only recommend books that genuinely moved me. Books I loved and would recommend to a friend. I'm drawn to unforgettable voices — often women's — memoirs, complicated relationships, sharp humor, and beautifully honest writing about life, family and ...
I like it because it's brutally honest about mothers, daughters, and independence — the kind of book that doesn't try to teach you a lesson, it just tells the truth."
Fierce Attachments a book by Vivian Gornick and Jonathan Lethem
I read this book while going through my divorce, and it met me exactly where I was. Maggie Smith's words made me feel understood, and by the end of the book, I found myself wanting to read more poetry for the first time in my life. I'll always associ...
You Could Make This Place Beautiful
Maybe having an autistic son shaped the way I experienced this book. Even though he's very different from Daniel Tammet, I found it a fascinating and deeply moving read.
Born on a Blue Day
I love the way Nora Ephron writes. She's smart, funny, honest, and somehow makes everyday life endlessly entertaining. I really enjoyed I Feel Bad About My Neck and I'm genuinely sad there won't be more books from her. I still haven't read Heartburn ...
I Feel Bad About My Neck and Other Thoughts on Being a …
I really loved Leslie Jamison's writing in Splitters. She captures so well the conflicting feelings many of us experience during the early years of motherhood — loving our children deeply while still wanting a life and a career of our own, and the co...
Splitter - Leslie Jamison, Sophie Zeitz: Books
I loved this book. Maggie O'Farrell looks back at seventeen moments when her life could have ended, but somehow the result isn't depressing — it's a book about being alive. Beautifully written, intimate and thought-provoking. It stayed with me long a...
I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death