Category Archives: Books

The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion Date Read: Fall 2007; Revisited: Regularly. How Strongly I Recommend It: 8/10 Didion is a great writer and this is a personal memoir about grief and losing her husband. It’s a book where timing is important. You have to be open and ready to enter into this…

Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown Date Read: 2016; Revisited: March 2019. How strongly I recommend it: 9/10 I love getting caught up in a good story, especially when it is true. And this one takes place in my home…