I’m sharing three picks for August – the first was written 30 years old, the second is a brand new book from a beloved author, and the third is an important bit of journalism that reads like a novel. The …
Beach Reading – Fiction that’s Fun and Some Light Learning, Too
If you’re searching for a book or two for your beach bag, here are a few titles that are being widely discussed as page-turners for this summer.
The first is “Great Circle” by Maggie Shipstead – Ron Charles, who writes …
6.9.21
May Reading List
Ron Brownstein’s “Rock Me on the Water: 1974 – The Year Los Angeles Transformed Movies, Music, Television, and Politics” is a book that I’ve already given as a gift three times, teeing it up as a first choice …
5.19.21
March Reading List
Joan Didion’s new book What I Mean is a collection of old essays, and besides the pleasure of a trip down memory lane (profiles of Nancy Reagan and early Martha Stewart are particularly pleasurable), the slim volume includes a …
3.2.21
Undine, for the Wharton Win
My book group met on Zoom from April to December last year, and we’ll likely be doing the same for most of 2021. Struggling at the end of 2020 to choose a cheery title, we turned to a time-honored trick. …
1.24.21
(We Need More) Poetry in General and Amanda Gorman’s poetry in Particular
One of my favorite things about reading the LA Times morning newsletter is that a poem is delivered with the news each day. I try to take a moment and read it because I want to support the effort to …
Brit Bennett’s The Vanishing Half
A story of two Black sisters from the south by an LA author
7.11.20
An Illustrated Guide to Chores +Some Parenting Hacks = Summer 2020?
Listen to two parenting experts on parenting hacks to incorporate into your 2020 summer
7.7.20
