Rachel Linden’s The Magic of Lemon Drop Pie is the type of guilty pleasure I yearn for after reading heavy historical or literary fiction. Think This Tender Land, The Great…
The main character in Emma Straub's This Time Tomorrow, goes to sleep on the eve of her 40th birthday and wakes up as her sixteen-year-old self in the 1990’s. As…
This simple line from Matthew Quick’s We Are the Light (2022) struck me as a short, but powerful string of words. It made me think about what my husband often…
After celebrating my twenty-third wedding anniversary this past January, this great line from Sonali Dev’s hilarious and heartfelt novel, The Vibrant Years, painted a huge smile of understanding on my…
This great line, from Sara Nović’s True Biz, intrigued me. The author goes on to assert that being motherless was “primal, the archetype for human suffering, like losing the North…
I highlighted this line in The Authenticity Project by Clare Pooley because it made me laugh. It was a sarcastic jab at one of the characters in the book portrayed…
It’s been almost two months since I read this great line, formed in the mind of an octopus (yes, an octopus), from Shelby Van Pelt’s unique, emotional, and inspiring novel,…
I don’t want to write about this. I want to leave the headlines and the politics to someone else. But in the last week, I’ve realized there is no way…
Like most great lines I write about, this one illuminated a light bulb over my head. Yes, it came the morning after we found something unexpected (something we could not…
"We begin at the end." Yup, that’s my one great line pick this month and the title of Chris Whitaker’s recent book. It’s rare for a book title to hit me…