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read with me: january 2025

January 29, 2025

Hi friends, Here I find myself again: doing my silly routines and my silly little rituals as we plunge headfirst into spiraling disaster after spiraling...

read with me: september 2024

September 5, 2024

Hi everyone, It has been way too long because my life has been chaotic! We moved (RIP communal living), I started a few new work projects, I fled a raging...

read with me: january 2024

January 8, 2024

I’m back home for good after five months of being on the road. I didn’t realize how much I missed this place. I missed the eucalyptus air, the smell of the...

Read with me: mountain edition

November 4, 2023

Hi everyone, I’m not so great at sending these on any sort of normal cadence. Maybe it’s because this newsletter isn’t quite read with me anymore. I guess...

Read with me: October travels

October 2, 2023

Hi dear ones, I’ve been delaying sending this because there is too much I want to share. Many of you know that I recently left my job to travel, and the last...

read with me: may 2023

May 31, 2023

I’ve been so much better at putting down books that don’t capture my heart or mind right away, and it has made reading so much more fun and enjoyable and...

read with me: february 2023

February 22, 2023

It’s been too long. I spent so many months last year reading Middlemarch (which I finally finished!! And it was incredible!) and I kept putting off sending...

read with me: july 2022

July 11, 2022

read with me! Hello friends, Here’s what I’ve been up to the last couple of months. books Happiness is an Inside Job I adore Sylvia Boorstein. She’s a Bay...

read with me: march 2022

March 28, 2022

read with me! It has been a while! I hope you are taking care and finding things to smile about. I also want to share that I am participating in a bike...

read with me: january 2022

January 23, 2022

read with me! I’ve been negligent about sending this, but Devin (that ball and chain) has been reminding me that I love writing this. I’ve read so many good...

read with me: fall 2021

October 20, 2021

read with me! hello! i don't even know what i've been doing these last few months other than being "busy" and trying to spend every free moment i have...

read with me: summer 2021

July 27, 2021

read with me! Last time I sent this I shared that I would be tardy with my next newsletter because I would be reading Middlemarch. Well, dear readers,...

read with me: march 2021

April 11, 2021

read with me! Spring is springing, I got my first shot (!!!!), the beautiful bush lilies are blooming in my yard, and it feels like I can let a shred of...

read with me: 2020 wrap-up

January 20, 2021

read with me! Is it too late to send out a best books of 2020 list? 2020 was a horrible year but I read some great sanity-saving books. best of 2020 The...

read with me: fall 2020

December 4, 2020

read with me! Hi again, I’ve missed sending these. My brain could not string two words together or even think of writing this until after the election. And...

read with me: july and august 2020

September 10, 2020

read with me! The world is burning (literally, figuratively, spiritually, etc. etc.) and I’m sending this newsletter under a terrifying orange wildfire-...

read with me: may? june? a bit of july?

July 15, 2020

read with me! books Erosion: Essays of Undoing, Terry Tempest Williams Quarantine is getting to me. Of course it is. How could it not be? I’m feeling...

read with me: what month is it?

May 4, 2020

read with me! Hi friends, I’ve spent the last few weeks like so many people I know bouncing from grief to anger, to complacency, to fear, to more grief. I...

read with me: march 2020

March 9, 2020

read with me! I was slogging my way through It by Stephen King when I made the miraculous discovery that I could put the book down and pick up something...

read with me: january 2020

February 3, 2020

read with me! Hi everyone! It’s been a minute. I haven’t forgotten about you. books The sea the sea by Iris Murdoch This novel was a dizzying escape into...

read with me: november 2019

December 10, 2019

read with me! books There There, Tommy Orange I recently joined a book club (gasp) and this was the first book we read as a group. I’ve never been in a...

read with me: october

November 7, 2019

read with me! books Our American Israel, Amy Kaplan I took Amy Kaplan’s course on the Vietnam War through literature and film while I was in college and it...

read with me: september 2019

October 5, 2019

read with me! books Sister Outsider, Audre Lorde I’ve been reading this book slowly over the last year at night, sometimes as a way to sooth me to sleep, not...

read with me: august 2019

September 1, 2019

read with me! books Normal People, Sally Rooney Sally Rooney, who has been described as the “first great millennial author,” published her debut novel...

Read With Me: July 2019

July 31, 2019

read with me! books Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Anita Loos Read this book if you like glitz, glamour, interwar period literature (think Great Gatsby without...

read with me: summer edition

June 27, 2019

read with me! books Bad Blood Read this book if you’re like me and late to the game on Theranos. I read this in the midst of being victimized by a very...

read with me: welcome!

May 28, 2019

read with me! hi all, starting a semi-regular newsletter with my favorite books, articles, and other things." books The White Book by Han Kan Read this book...