Despite all those engagement pictures you’re inundated with on Facebook are telling you, marriage rates in America are slowing down. According to the U.S. Census, the proportion of married adults is dropping and for the first time, single women outnumber their married counterparts. Author Rebecca Traister argues that these unmarried women are a revolutionary force, changing our definitions of love and family, and pushing the political conversation to the left. “Women…perhaps especially those who have lived untethered from the energy-sucking and identity-sapping institution of marriage […]
Listening to Autism
My husband and I have two sons who have both been diagnosed on the autism spectrum. Our first diagnosis came about 12 years ago this summer, and I can tell you that like all the other autism parents I know, we immersed ourselves in information once we got the diagnosis. It can be overwhelming — there are books on diets, behavior modification, medications, personal stories, not to mention the vast realms of info (much of it crap) on the Internet. I cannot claim to have […]
Big skies, big animals, big threats
By the time I started reading Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight, I had forgotten what it was about, and I’m glad I had because otherwise, I would have had my defensives up. I added it to my library queue after reading badkittyuno’s review last month. Cannonball Read: the system works. There’s not much I can add here. badkittyuno did a killer job summarizing the experience of the read, and the broad strokes of the story that Alexander Fuller tells. It’s a memoir of […]
Every time I see you falling, I get down on my knees and pray
This well-researched book covers the short and insulated world of the Romanov sisters, the 4 daughters of the last tsar of Russia. Olga, Tatiana, Maria, and Anastasia, along with their youngest brother Alexey were the central focus of their parents, Nicholas and Alexandra, and lived loving but deeply sheltered lives as monarchs until their exile and murder during the Russian revolution. While the main focus is on the girls, the book starts with Alexandra’s love match with Nicholas, as the foundation for the love and […]
Full disclosure: I actually thought this book was about owls and diabetes. I also had no idea who David Sedaris was: a naturalist, I assumed. His name was familiar to me and I really like owls, plus the book was free. Thinking back, I’m pretty sure the only thing I actually knew about him is he was on Aisha Tyler’s fabulous podcast Girl on Guy once, but the interview has not stuck in my head in any way more memorable than, “He’s pretty funny. And he […]
This is a [white] man’s world
If you’ve picked this book up, you probably already know about Ta-Nehisi Coates, or have read his work on The Atlantic before. It’s hard to be sure because I live outside of the US, but based on my casual observation, Coates has become more prominent and publicized during this final Obama administration. Part of it may be due to his incredible long-form piece published two years ago, The Case for Reparations (if you haven’t read this, go. Read it now. Come back to my review later.); but I believe […]
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