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…
If there was ever a sentence spoken by a character that sums up a story in three words, "parenting is savage," is it. Plus, I don’t know of a parent…
In Eileen Garvin’s debut novel, The Music of Bees, three lonely strangers grapple with grief and loss. Stuck in their own sadness, they’ve lost the will to connect meaningfully with…
The character in Steven Rowley’s book, The Guncle, unexpectedly gains guardianship of his young niece and nephew for the summer. His advice, “normal is a terrible thing to aspire to,…
This line in Laurie Frankel’s new book, One Two Three, didn’t strike me because I have something to feel guilty about. I’m not harboring guilt over an enormous secret, or…
In Matt Haig’s, The Midnight Library, the main character searches within herself to determine what defines a fulfilling life. According to my kindle, the line “an unfinished jigsaw of a…
I am the parent who pays close attention to my children’s required summer reading. I do it because it gives me a chance to engage them in a conversation about…
This great line from Oona Out of Order by Margarita Montimore, jumped off the page, and had me screaming YES (in my mind)! The words gave me an immediate kinship…