On Khaled Hosseini’s trilogy, the choices we can’t undo, and the uncomfortable truth that family is both the wound and the bandage. I’ve read all three of Khaled Hosseini’s books multiple times. The Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns, And the Mountains Echoed. I know how they end. I know which pages will wreck me. […]
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The heartbreaking “Math” of ‘When Breath Becomes Air’ and why we should stop playing it safe. I find myself returning to this photograph again and again. Paul Kalanithi, forty pounds lighter than he was before cancer, skeletal and exhausted, cradling his newborn daughter in hands that once performed brain surgery. They are both breathing. One
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I bought Theo of Golden because one of my friends wouldn’t stop talking about it. She wasn’t recommending it exactly; that would have been easier to ignore. She just kept circling back to a character named Theo who’d made her reconsider what kindness actually costs. About how a book with almost no plot had somehow become one
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“To live fully is to be always in no-man’s-land, to experience each moment as completely new and fresh. To live is to be willing to die over and over again.” – Pema Chödrön Her name, before everything changed, was Deirdre Blomfield-Brown. She had done everything correctly. Attended the right schools – Miss Porter’s, then Berkeley. Married
The title answered the curiosity that lays between almost all of us. Not the loud, dramatic kind of worry that announces itself and demands attention, but the low hum kind. The worry that sits with you over breakfast. That follows you into conversations you are supposed to be present for. That wakes up slightly before
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This is the story of a woman who should never have been forgotten in history. Born Marion Greener, a light-skinned Black woman in early 20th-century America, she reinvented herself as Belle da Costa Greene to pass as white. This was her only way into a world where women—let alone Black women—rarely succeeded. And succeed she
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Brené Brown wrote “I Thought It Was Just Me (but it isn’t)” before she became Brené Brown. Long before the TED talk that broke the internet, before vulnerability became a word everyone used without understanding what it costs to actually practice it. This is her first book. It’s Rawer. Unpolished. And written for women drowning
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It is my reasoned opinion that everyone should read “Nobody’s Girl”. Not because it’s easy; I’m afraid it’s not. Not because it will make you feel good; it definitely won’t. But because Virginia Roberts Giuffre’s story exposes a truth we’ve spent too long ignoring: that powerful men can traffic, abuse, and destroy young girls, and