Category: Books
Book reviews, recommendations and top takeaways to help you decide what to read next
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Elizabeth McCracken’s ‘The Long Game’ Makes a Compelling Case for a ‘Minorly Fulfilling Career’
Elizabeth McCracken’s ‘The Long Game’ features hundreds of great notes on fiction writing (280, to be exact), but one—on finding “minorly fulfilling” work to support you—really stood out to me.
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Which Giada De Laurentiis Cookbook Is the Best? Her Top 5, Compared
Giada De Laurentiis has written 11 cookbooks, but which one is the best? And where should you begin, if you want to master her takes on easy, healthy Italian meals? Here’s my review and ranking of the top five.
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Days After Reading ‘What If You Are the Answer,’ 2 Questions Linger
Rachel Hollis’s new book, ‘What If You Are the Answer?’ presents a new question with each chapter. After reading it, these two stuck with me—and I’d like to unpack them here with you. (It’s a safe space, right?)
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8 Thoughtful Nonfiction Book Gifts for Everyone in Your Life
Some of the best books that I’ve given as gifts are creative nonfiction: stories that inspire, uplift and kick us into action.
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‘In My Time of Dying’ Makes You Tackle Existential Dread Head-On
Sebastian Junger’s ‘In My Time of Dying’ thoughtfully and rationally explores the idea of an afterlife—and what it means to be alive. Here’s my review of the book and how it’s impacted my life.
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What Separates the Cult from the ‘Cultish’
Amanda Montell’s book ‘Cultish’ takes a deep dive into the language that converts, connects—and disconnects us. I couldn’t put it down.
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The Oprah-Backed Journal Prompt that Can Help You Work Through Your Darkest Moments
Sometimes, life rattles you to your core, and the little things that used to annoy you pale in comparison to what you’re dealing with now. Or with what you’ve dealt with in the past, which keeps coming up (often at 3 a.m.) to haunt you. No matter whether you’re dealing with an issue big or…
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Summer Must-Read: Minka Kelly’s Memoir, ‘Tell Me Everything,’ Is Transformative
Minka Kelly’s honesty—paired with perspective—will have you examining your own life in a new light.
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The Difference Between Quitting and Giving Up, According to GrubHub Founder Mike Evans
Growing up, I was really good at quitting things. Specifically, sports. Because I’m tall, people always told me I should be a basketball player. Or volleyball player. Or maybe get into flag football. But definitely basketball. So I did those things, and very, very early on, I quit them all. (I actually quit flag football…
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Fail Trying: The Most Powerful Takeaway from Bob Goff’s ‘Dream Big’
Bob Goff is one of those people you can’t believe actually exists. He’s a lawyer who serves as the honorary consul to the Republic of Uganda, who donates the proceeds of his books to bettering others’ lives—and is so willing to lend a hand he prints his actual cell phone number in those books. (Which…
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If You Only Take One Thing from Jenna Kutcher’s ‘How Are You, Really,’ Let It Be This
The concept of “knowing your worth” has always been something that washed over me. Yeah, yeah, sounds good, I’d nod, agreeing but never giving it much thought. Until I read Jenna Kutcher’s new book, How Are You, Really. All 19 chapters are an invitation to push past the perfunctory “how are you?” questions of life…
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How Keeping a ‘Worry Journal’ Can Help You Feel Less Anxious
Anxiety has always trailed me, like a shadow stitched to my feet a la Peter Pan. I can remember panicking as a five-year-old, pulling my nap mat over me and imagining what it’d be like to cease thought, to die, like a spider I’d just seen get smashed. (What a conversation my mom had to…
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