Surprise! The baby is napping, the bottles have been washed, and I have a glorious hour of peace on the couch, so I’m popping in very quickly to say hello, I miss you all, and to share a few things I’ve been loving recently that feel noteworthy. Thanks to everyone who’s sent very sweet messages during my maternity leave. I can’t wait to be back in full force in June and write for you all again.
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Books
Three books I’m reading:
Lost Lambs by Madeline Cash. Gulped this down in just a few days and would recommend. I have a longer review and March book club discussion thread I’ve been “working on” for the past two weeks (🫠 I am sorry!), but the TL;DR is: if you like both The Royal Tenenbaums and The Virgin Suicides, you will like this book. Precocious teen girls, a tech billionaire, and a badly behaved minister all walk into a bar…
The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion, Vol. 1. by Beth Brower, on audio. I’ve been listening to this during my middle-of-the-night feeding rounds and it’s giving I Capture the Castle meets Jane Austen vibes and I love it. There are several more volumes, which makes me happy.
Strangers by Belle Burden. Perhaps the buzziest memoir since Spare? I’ve just started this one, so I don’t have any thoughts yet but I’m excited to dive in.
Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke. One of the biggest, buzziest debut releases of the year that has the publishing industry in a tizzy. It’s about a tradwife influencer who suddenly finds herself back in the actual 1800’s. The reviews I’ve seen so far have been mixed, so I’m eager to start this and form my own opinion.
Famesick: A Memoir by Lena Dunham. I read this excerpt in the New Yorker yesterday (I think it’s an excerpt?) and was completely drawn in by the writing and the mid-2000’s New York City nostalgia. “To this day, I feel a pang every time I watch a documentary about artists and they describe the moment when they first became part of a creative community, when nobody was doing it for the cash yet, nobody had betrayed a trusted collaborator or called someone else a sellout. At the time, it all seemed tentative and terrifying, impossible and inevitable.”
London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family’s Search for Truth by Patrick Radden Keefe. Keefe wrote the blockbusters Empire of Pain and Say Nothing, so my expectations are very high for this book, an “account of a family devastated by the sudden death of their nineteen-year-old son, only to discover that he had created a secret life which drew him into the dangerous criminal underworld that lies beneath London’s glittering surface.”
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