What stories do you tell yourself? This book is, more than anything else, a book about stories. There are the stories that the other 10-year-olds make up about Pia after her grandmother dies in an Advent wreath accident one nightmarish Christmas season, stories meant to hurt and drive away someone that makes them feel uncomfortable …
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What if an architect turned his mind to crime? That is precisely what Geoff Manaugh, an architect, does in this book. But he starts his story with the tale of another architect who turned his mind to crime in the 19th century. That man, George Leonidas Leslie, formed a gang that one official surmised was …
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Translated by Brian Bruya What do you believe and how strongly do you believe it? For awhile, a fad sped through the people I was hanging with called the belief-o-meter, a cool little diagnostic tool - you answered a few questions and it told you which spiritual practice was best aligned with your beliefs.* At …
What are you concealing in your hidden quadrant? The family of Jessi Hempel, podcaster extraordinaire for LinkedIn had quite a bit that they weren't talking about. Jessi herself came out of the closet, her sister joined her, her other sister announced she was Trans-male, and her father came out as gay (and, in once scene, …
Continue reading 365 Books: The Family Outing by Jessi Hempel
Hm, whose priceless mirror is that in my entryway and how did it get there, and is this going to end up being my fault somehow? That is the question that Sarah Kelling Kelling asks herself when she uses the (mostly avoided) front entry of her "summer" house on Cape Cod. She inherited this drafty …
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