For The Book Obsessed
[ad_1] Happy September! Fall is in the air, which means it’s time to put great new fall books on our bookshelves. Here are ten of our favorite books coming out this month, including works of sci-fi, fantasy, memoir, environmental reportage, and much, much more. City of SparrowsBy Eva Nour; Translated by Agnes BrooméMelville House “Growing … Read more
[ad_1] Hi, it’s Jess, Read it Forward’s Assistant Editor. Many of you know me from hosting Read it Forward’s book club, our videos, Instagram, or from the articles I’ve written for our site. I want to let you know that I’m leaving Read it Forward and starting a new adventure! Just like every good chapter … Read more
[ad_1] “I don’t want to talk about my family,” I announced to the therapist at the beginning of my very first counseling session. “I had a perfect childhood.” I wasn’t there to marinate ad nauseam in some theoretical Freudian stew of discontent that didn’t actually exist. I just had some patterns that I recognized as … Read more
[ad_1] I’ve been lucky enough to know Megan Cummins for over a decade, ever since we did an MA in Creative Writing together at UC Davis. It’s been thrilling to see her sharp, lyrical, and hilarious stories find a final form in her debut collection, If The Body Allows It. The book centers on Marie, … Read more
[ad_1] With starred reviews from Library Journal and Kirkus, a TV deal with Bruna Papandrea’s Made Up Stories already inked, and places on a half-dozen lists of the year’s most anticipated books, Christina Baker Kline’s new novel The Exiles is poised to make a splash. It is in some ways a quiet book, focusing on … Read more
[ad_1] Sometimes the separation between the lived experiences of neighbors can be just as profound as if they grew up on different planets. Privilege, opportunity, and access can be shifted by the smallest geographic space, a city street, or a country’s border. Few understand this truth better than the protagonist of Micaiah Johnson’s debut novel, … Read more