Finished reading: Searches: selfhood in the digital age by Vauhini Vara 📚
Reading Log
Finished reading: Hounding by Xenobe Purvis 📚
This one has been in the pile all summer, and I’m glad I set this one aside for now. Lemieux’s personal story is so smart and relatable, she shares without shame, and her voice is light and clear despite navigating often-heavy subject matter.
In particular, I want to tag the last section of the book where Lemieux invited other Black single mothers, from activists to viral Twitter personalities, to write about their experience from their individual perspectives, centering their voices in their own words, including stories from notable names like Tarana Burke. Timely and well executed.
Finished reading: Black. Single. Mother. by Jamilah Lemieux 📚
Currently reading: Black. Single. Mother. by Jamilah Lemieux 📚 Finally tucking into this one, another deft writer with a deceptively light touch.
Finished reading: Mothers, Tell Your Daughters: Stories by Bonnie Jo Campbell 📚
Finished reading: Multipliers by Liz Wiseman 📚
Finished reading: Suffer a Witch A Memoir by Joy McCullough 📚
Finished reading: Famesick by Lena Dunham 📚
Finished reading: We’ll Prescribe You a Cat by Syou Ishida 📚
Finished reading: Yesteryear A Novel by Caro Claire Burke 📚
Finished reading: The Mixed Marriage Project A Memoir of Love, Race, and Family by Dorothy Roberts 📚
Finished reading: Mother Mary Comes to Me by Arundhati Roy 📚
Finished reading: A Language of Limbs by Dylin Hardcastle 📚
Finished reading: My Mother’s Daughter - Finding Myself in My Family’s Fractured Past by Tracy Clark-Flory 📚
It’s a pleasure to read such a deft writer. Currently reading: My Mother’s Daughter - Finding Myself in My Family’s Fractured Past by Tracy Clark-Flory 📚
I followed the discourse on this one, but the book itself was much sadder than I expected. I did appreciate her thoughts on the pressure of balancing a public persona with the reality of being a messy and unfinished person, as we all are. Finished reading: Adult Braces by Lindy West 📚
This one was okay. It felt like a series of earnest blog posts without a real throughline. Finished reading: Glitch Feminism by Legacy Russell 📚
Finished reading: The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison 📚
Read this alongside The Bluest Eye. Finished reading: On Morrison by Namwali Serpell 📚
A quarter of the way in and already exhausted/confounded. Currently reading: Adult Braces by Lindy West 📚
Finished reading: Even the Good Girls Will Cry A ’90s Rock Memoir by Melissa Auf der Maur 📚
Finished reading: Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor 📚
Finished reading: Bog Queen by Anna North 📚
Finished reading: Life in Code by Ellen Ullman 📚
Determined to finish at least one more novel this year, and this one fits the bill. Currently reading: Moderation by Elaine Castillo 📚
Currently reading: Women! In! Peril! by Jessie Ren Marshall 📚
Of course Jean Grae has a striking narrative voice and point of view. My hero. Currently reading: In My Remaining Years by Jean Grae 📚
Currently reading: Communication Solution by Stacy Smulowitz 📚
This book has some decent insights, especially on how to refine your leadership “brand” in the workplace and online, but I’m not sold yet. Currently reading: When We’re in Charge by Amanda Litman 📚
Currently reading: In My Remaining Years by Jean Grae 📚