• What I Read: January 2017

    2017 is my year of reading books written by women. Here’s what I read in January: Warsan Shire’s Teaching My Mother How To Give Birth.  Teaching My Mother How To Give Birth has been on my to-read list for quite some time, far before Shire’s involvement in Beyonce’s Lemonade. You may have seen the Somali writer and…

  • What I Read: October & November 2016

    To help me stay on track in my 2016 goals, I’m documenting the books I read all year. I liked the three-sentence reviews I wrote for August and September, so I’m going to do that again. Here’s what I read in October and November: Joan Didion’s Where I Was From. Every time I read a…