From intergenerational family sagas, to poignant memoirs, to surreal adventures, these unique summer beach reads will hold your attention even if you’re a couple cocktails deep, poolside.
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If you've never been into poetry, but you're interested in learning how to read—and enjoy—it, this is the reading list for you! This is not a definitive guide. It is not a complete list. It's just a collection of my favorite poets and poetry collections...and is heavily biased towards Mary Oliver.
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A jolly list of books for you to snuggle up next to the fire with, whether you’re looking for cozy Christmas stories, meaningful memoirs, peaceful poetry, compelling classics, or a bingeable series you can “sleigh” all day.
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In my heart, I’m lounging in a front row seat at Café de Flore, sipping un café crème, watching graceful Parisians glide down Boulevard Saint-Germain, as I skim the pages of an Ernest Hemingway novel I picked up at Shakespeare & Co. In reality…
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Some day, there might be an appropriate time and place for my own thoughts on the experience we are collectively, currently sharing. Now is not that time. Now is the time for us to look to our Black leaders, activists, teachers, storytellers, and listen…
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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a person in possession of a lot of time to kill, must be in want of a binge. Most of us are entering into our second month of Coronavirus lockdown this week. We’ve blown through Tiger King, cried our eyes out during the latest episode of Outlander, and caught up on all our Bravo shows, and we’re facing a big “what now?”
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“One day you will tell your story of how you've overcome what you're going through now, and it will become part of someone else's survival guide.” This quote came to mind as I was compiling this list of memoirs. The truth is, we live on stories. We fuel-up on stories. Sometimes, indeed, we survive on stories. Here are some more tools for your survival kit.
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I finished this book yesterday. Reading it made me feel like I was gaining some ground to stand on, during a time when I felt as if I was free-falling through the space between me and my lost father.
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Whether or not you’re a resolution maker, it’s hard not to be moved by the “fresh start'“ feeling the new year brings. If you’re sensing that impulse to start the year in a new and meaningful way…
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I found Tom Robbins at a moment in my life when I was lonely and broke; a very green, yet very disillusioned young dreamer, sharing a too-small apartment with a furniture hoarder and a…
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