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Sarah Wynn-Williams, a young diplomat from New Zealand, pitched for her dream job. She saw …
Loved it. I’ve worked in tech for 20+ years, and so much of this resonated. The author is a very entertaining writer, and she makes her points while keeping the plot moving.
An exhilarating tale of twisted desire, histories and homes, and the unexpected shape of revenge - for readers of Patricia …
So slow and long that I couldn’t finish it. Got about halfway through. The character development was interesting, but not interesting enough for a plot that hasn’t gotten anywhere by the halfway point.
Disarmingly witty and poignant, Sloane Crosley’s memoir explores multiple kinds of loss following the death …
This book was recommended to me because a close friend recently died by suicide, and it was very healing to read it. It’s a strange position to be in, not a wife, brother, or even best friend, of the deceased, but still needing to find a way to carry the grief. For that reason, and because the author is in a similar position, I really enjoyed it. Whether or not others would appreciate it probably depends on how much they like Sloane Crosley’s style of writing.
As a memoir, it has a number of flaws, but my biggest problem with it is that it has a LOT of romanticization about New York. As a native Californian, I find romanticization of New York exhausting, it’s a breathless enthusiasm for caring about the wrong things. There is so much it becomes tedious, and takes a full star off my rating.
Otherwise, it’s …
This book was recommended to me because a close friend recently died by suicide, and it was very healing to read it. It’s a strange position to be in, not a wife, brother, or even best friend, of the deceased, but still needing to find a way to carry the grief. For that reason, and because the author is in a similar position, I really enjoyed it. Whether or not others would appreciate it probably depends on how much they like Sloane Crosley’s style of writing.
As a memoir, it has a number of flaws, but my biggest problem with it is that it has a LOT of romanticization about New York. As a native Californian, I find romanticization of New York exhausting, it’s a breathless enthusiasm for caring about the wrong things. There is so much it becomes tedious, and takes a full star off my rating.
Otherwise, it’s a thoughtful read that essentially examines the questions, “How deeply do we really know those closest to us?” and “How do we keep moving through life when a person we cared about no longer moves forward in it with us?”
Disarmingly witty and poignant, Sloane Crosley’s memoir explores multiple kinds of loss following the death of her closest friend.
How …
A good friend recently took his own life, and he did it in a hotel. So the coincidence of my starting to read this book literally a couple weeks later probably put it off on the wrong foot with me. Also, I don’t typically read this sort of “elevated mass-market” fiction, so maybe my unenthusiastic reaction to this book is partly an unenthusiastic reaction to the category. This one was recommended to me, so I read it without knowing anything about it. It’s an entertaining story that doesn’t really say anything meaningful, and the characters are amusing but forgettable. The story is relatively contrived. This book felt like it was written with the author’s eye toward selling a movie or Netflix series based on it. But I enjoyed the process of reading it, and I’m sure the Netflix series will be enjoyable too.
Sarah Wynn-Williams, a young diplomat from New Zealand, pitched for her dream job. She saw Facebook’s potential and knew it …
An unforgettable portrait of an extraordinary life—one forged through a poverty-stricken childhood in “slummy, one-horse …
I love Nelo Case, and I wanted to love this memoir, but I felt like it was mostly the story of her making sense of her childhood and adolescence and moving past the way it affected her, and that’s a great reason to spend time in therapy, but a less great reason to write a book. I related to a lot of it, and I enjoyed her prose style, but I felt like I could have skipped it.
"Brilliant.” —Washington Post
"The clearest and most gripping account I've read of German life before …
Not exactly a relaxing read, but essential learning for Americans in 2025. This first book of three covers the incidents, political maneuvers, and social trends that started in WWI and eventually led to the Nazis taking power.
"Brilliant.” —Washington Post
"The clearest and most gripping account I've read of German life before and during the rise of …
An unforgettable portrait of an extraordinary life—one forged through a poverty-stricken childhood in “slummy, one-horse towns”; obsessive desire; bursts of …
