The Terrible: A Storyteller's Memoir by Yrsa Daley-Ward (2018)

ONE
8.8
All I can think is,
Beauty makes everything bearable (38).

10.1 Beauty makes people stay, I thought. Beauty makes people listen to you. Beauty makes people fall in love with you and not know what to do with themselves. It was in all the songs and it was in the Disney films. ( Read more... )

And Now We Have Everything: On Motherhood Before I Was Ready by Meaghan O'Connell (2018)

Who has not asked himself
at some time or other: am I
a monster or is this what it
means to be a person?
-Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star

Baby FeverSome days I couldn’t tell whether I wanted marriage or not. Were the parts of me that resisted just ( Read more... )

In Memory of Memory: A Romance by Maria Stepanova (2018), translated by Sasha Dugdale (2021)

Part One
1. Someone Else’s DiaryFor the interested reader, diaries and notebooks can be placed in two categories: in the first the text is intended to be official, manifest, aimed at a readership. The notebook becomes a training ground for the outward self ( Read more... )

In Memory of Memory: A Romance by Maria Stepanova (2018), translated by Sasha Dugdale (2021)

Part Three
1. You Can’t Escape Your FateThe ability to skip large chunks of time might be useful in the writing of novels, but it starts to frighten me when I realize I am doing it in life, and with real living people - that is, with dead people, of course ( Read more... )

Tesoro by Yesika Salgado (2018)

III.
Amargura
h you asked me once ( Read more... )

A Little Book of Japanese Contentments by Erin Niimi Longhurst (2018)

01 Kokoro (The Heart and the Mind)
Wabi-sabi (The Beauty of Imperfection and Impermanence)
Many objects that are wabi or sabi can also be considered to be shibui. This can be translated as a muted, understated, and sophisticated, yet modest or subdued kind of beauty that hints ( Read more... )

How to Be Successful without Hurting Men's Feelings by Sarah Cooper (2018)

Introduction
Scale the heights of your career and break that glass ceiling, but do it very quietly and gingerly, and be sure to make a man think he did it for you (8).

CHAPTER 9: SUCCESS
In her book Dare Mighty Things, Halee Gray Scott identified the catch-22 for all ( Read more... )

The Little Book of Fika: The Uplifting Daily Ritual of the Swedish Coffee Break by Lynda Balslev (2018)

Cookies & Confections
Almond Cookies (Mandel Kakor) Makes 20 cookies ( Read more... )

Thick: And Other Essays by Tressie McMillan Cottom (2018)

ThickBlack girls and black women are problems. That is not the same thing as causing problems. We are social issues to be solved, economic problems to be balanced, and emotional baggage to be overcome. We work. Lord do black girls and black women work.4 We start work early before it is paid ( Read more... )