19.8.10 Curated: Links from the Week

What I'm Reading: Verity, by Colleen Hoover. Every once and awhile, I like to read a thriller, the kind that keeps you on the edge of your seat and desperate for the next chapter. Since I was taking a trip by plane, it seemed like a good time to bring along such a book. Verity …

19.7.27 Curated: Links from the Week

What I'm Reading: First, We Make the Beast Beautiful: A New Story About Anxiety, by Sarah Wilson. As I've gotten older, I've definitely noticed my anxiety increasing - not to the level of a disorder, but in a way that affects my sleep and what I feel willing and able to do in my daily …

19.7.21 Curated: Links from the Week

What I'm Reading: How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy, by Jenny Odell. I'd been hearing about this since it came out earlier this year, and honestly, based on the cover I thought it was just going to be memoir about a woman learning to let go of busyness and embrace quiet and slow, …

19.7.13 Curated: Links from the Week

What I'm Reading: The Seas, by Samantha Hunt. This strange little novel takes place in a poor seaside town that has been hit hard by dwindling economic resources, leaving its residents depressed and trapped. Our main character is a young woman who believes she is a mermaid because her father told her so, before he …

19.6.30 Curated: Links from the Week

What I'm Reading: Red, White, and Royal Blue, by Casey McQuiston. This is the upcoming book for July's book club (June's was A Place for Us). This isn't normally the kind of book I would pick off the shelf - I don't usually read romance. However, I saw it featured on Powell's Midyear Roundup, and …

19.6.1 Curated: Links from the Week

What I'm Reading: Summer Cannibals, by Melanie Hobson. I've been really feeling the nonfiction this year, but I'm back at the novels! When I saw it on a display table at the library, mostly I was attracted to its beautiful cover and the title, both of which made it look like the perfect read for …

19.5.25 Curated: Links from the Week

What I'm Reading: Triggers, by Marshall Goldsmith. More research about habit formation. Most valuable lesson so far: situation leadership and the idea that all of us have within us the planner and the doer. The planner is the one who wakes up in the morning and has grand plans for everything she is going to …

19.5.18 Curated: Links from the Week

What I'm Reading: How to help women in states with extreme anti-abortion legislation. This week my heart has been heavy with the consequences these bans have on our sisters in these states, as well as the painful, harmful rhetoric going along with them. Reproductive agency for those who can get pregnant (trans and non-binary folks …

19.5.11 Curated: Links from the Week

What I'm Reading: Insight, by Tasha Eurich. This book is all about increasing your self-awareness, which is the ability to see ourselves clearly. Apparently, we aren't very good at this - we have very little skill in accurately gauging how well we understand a topic, and the more confident we are, the less we objectively …

19.5.4. Curated: Links from the Week

Some of my favorite blog posts are the round-up style ones that are often published on the weekend. I have found so many interesting articles and topics to explore from these curated posts - it's like a look into the everyday things that intrigue people throughout their week. Since much of the focus of restarting …