Category: 2025 Reading

October 1, 2025

2025 Reading–August and September

All in her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught us about Women’s Bodies and Why it Matters Today by Elizabeth Comen, M.D….
August 1, 2025

2025 Reading–July

Flights by Olga Tokarczuk, translated from Polish by Jennifer Croft, is quite a book. I’ve had it on my shelf for a few years,…
July 1, 2025

2025 Reading–June

Playground by Richard Powers was my book club’s selection for June. Most people in the group were underwhelmed, but I think that’s because they…
May 31, 2025

2025 Reading–May

Pure America: Eugenics and the Making of Modern Virginia by Elizabeth Catte was my book club’s selection for May. Although the accounts of the…
May 1, 2025

2025 Reading–April

Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar is a novel about a young Iranian man who comes to America as a child, as Akbar did. The man,…
April 1, 2025

2025 Reading–February and March

Highlights: Until August by Gabriel Garcia Marquez is a posthumous novel by the great writer that probably shouldn’t have been published by his heirs….
January 31, 2025

2025 Reading–January

The Vegetarian by Han Kang. I was asked to moderate a discussion of this book in February, so I needed to reread it. It…