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Favorite Reads of 2021
What a year of reading! I leaned a lot harder on audio-books this year than I have in years past. We spend 3 hours in the car a day...
Sarah Williamson
Dec 30, 202124 min read
A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas
“And I realized—I realized how badly I'd been treated before, if my standards had become so low. If the freedom I'd been granted felt...
Sarah Williamson
Mar 4, 20214 min read
A Court of Thorns and Roses (ACOTAR) by Sarah J. Maas
“Be glad of your human heart, Feyre. Pity those who don’t feel anything at all.” Dear ACOTAR Fans, you are intense and passionate about...
Sarah Williamson
Mar 3, 20215 min read
Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Kit, particularly, grieved the way some people drink which is to say: rarely but always alone and to excess Malibu Rising begins by...
Sarah Williamson
Mar 2, 20212 min read
Sharks in the Time of Saviors by Kawai Strong Washburn
“If a god is a thing that has absolute power over us, then in this world there are many. There are gods that we choose and gods that we...
Sarah Williamson
Feb 20, 20212 min read
Wow, No Thank You by Samantha Irby
“Hello, 911? I’ve been lying awake for an hour each night, reliving a two-second awkward experience I had in front of a casual...
Sarah Williamson
Feb 20, 20211 min read
The Prophets by Robert Jones Jr.
“But he did think about the ways in which his body wasn’t his own and how that condition showed up uniquely for everyone whose personhood...
Sarah Williamson
Feb 20, 20213 min read
When No One is Watching by Alyssa Cole
“When I think of a Black community, the first thing that comes to mind—even if I don’t want it to—is crime. Drugs. Gangs. Welfare. That’s...
Sarah Williamson
Jan 30, 20212 min read
We Are Never Meeting in Real Life by Samantha Irby
“My alarm goes off at 5:50 a.m. First thing I do is check to make sure I'm not dead. If I am, in fact, still alive, I usually sob...
Sarah Williamson
Jan 30, 20212 min read
The Lazy Genius Way: Name What Matters, Ditch What Doesn't and get stuff done By Kendra Adachi
“I'm all for letting go of perfection, but we've somehow conflated order with being fake. I want to stop applauding chaos as the only...
Sarah Williamson
Jan 29, 20213 min read
Mother May I by Joshlyn Jackson
Bree Cabbat is secure in her role as the mother of three and wife to a successful lawyer. Everything in her life feels so solid, until...
Sarah Williamson
Jan 21, 20213 min read
Bunny by Mona Awad
“Can I take your coat?” Cupcake offers. I turn to her. She’s looking at me so hopefully. So willing to take a coat I’m not wearing, I...
Sarah Williamson
Jan 13, 20213 min read
When These Mountains Burn by David Joy
"There was something someone told me the other day that really struck home. They said everything in this world carries consequences. I...
Sarah Williamson
Jan 9, 20212 min read
The Searcher by Tana French
After a divorce Cal didn't see coming, and quitting the police force he worked for in Chicago, Cal has escaped to a remote small town in...
Sarah Williamson
Jan 7, 20212 min read
Milk Blood Heat by Dantiel W. Moniz
Ava knows she really is a monster, or at least she feels like one; unnatural and unfamiliar in her body. Before thirteen, she hadn't...
Sarah Williamson
Jan 7, 20213 min read
Best Books of 2020!
This year was a killer year for reading. I tend to read more when I have a little nursling who forces me to sit still on the couch for...
Sarah Williamson
Dec 29, 202019 min read
The Beauty In Breaking by Michelle Harper
“This devastation is a crossroads with a choice; to remain in the ashes or to forge ahead unburdened. Here is the chance to mold into a...
Sarah Williamson
Dec 29, 20202 min read
Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation
“According to Pew Research Center, the youngest millennials, born in 1996, will turn twenty-four in 2020. The oldest, born in 1981, will...
Sarah Williamson
Dec 29, 20202 min read
Evvie Drake Starts Over by Linda Holmes
“The tag on her chamomile teabag said, There is no trouble that a good cup of tea can’t solve. It sounded like what a gentleman on...
Sarah Williamson
Dec 29, 20202 min read
Never Have I Ever by Joshilyn Jackson
“People say, I don’t know how she lives with herself, but every single one of them was living with their own worst thing, just fine. No...
Sarah Williamson
Dec 28, 20202 min read
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