I love connecting with new people over a good book. Below are some of my recent favorites, or you can click the link to view my StoryGraph
“The story of a place is the story of its water.”
-The Old Drift, by Namwali Serpell
“Look no further than your last name. Follow it back and you might find your line paved with gold, or beset with traps.”
— There There, by Tommy Orange
“Getting grown means learning how to work that current: learning when to hold fast, when to drop anchor, when to let it sweep you up.”
-Sing, Unburied, Sing, by Jesmyn Ward
“We must believe in our souls that we are somebody, that we are significant, that we are worthful, and we must walk the streets of life every day with this sense of dignity and this sense of somebody-ness.”
-The Nickel Boys, by Colson Whitehead
“Gender is a shell game. What is a man? Whatever a woman isn't. What is a woman? Whatever a man is not. Tap on it and it's hollow. Look under the shells: it's not there.”
-The Power, by Naomi Alderman
“To admit uncertainty is to admit to weakness, to powerlessness, and to believe in yourself despite both. It is a frailty, but in this frailty there is a strength: the conviction to live in your own mind, and not in someone else’s.”
-Educated, by Tara Westover