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Non-fiction to take you away (even if you want to stay put)
With heat pulling my tender strands into frizzy curls already, it’s high time we talk about summer reading. As a kid, I was the book geek already tearing through her assigned books before the current...
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Book review: ‘A Walk in the Woods’ by Bill Bryson
Bill Bryson thinks he knows what to expect when he embarks on a journey to hike the Appalachian Trail — some 2,000 miles, stretching from Georgia to Maine. He knows about the wildlife, the heat, the...
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Review: ‘Good Chinese Wife’ by Susan Blumberg-Kason
Going into Susan Blumberg-Kason’s Good Chinese Wife, I’ll confess to wanting to do a little armchair traveling. During a busy summer in which I’ve rarely crossed state lines, the idea of visiting...
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Book review: ‘Everybody’s Got Something’ by Robin Roberts
Television newscaster Robin Roberts has had her share of struggles. Treated for breast cancer in 2007, the “Good Morning America” co-anchor expected to make a full recovery and put her fight behind her...
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Book chat and giveaway: ‘Seven Letters from Paris’ by Samantha Verant
Twenty years after they shared one fateful weekend in Paris, Samantha and Jean-Luc are separated by an ocean and wealth of varying experiences. Samantha herself is in a rut — 40 and jobless, staring...
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Book chat: ‘Etched in Sand’ by Regina Calcaterra
Regina Calcaterra could have turned out very differently. The third of five children, Regina and her siblings were forced to scrabble a life together when Cookie — their mentally ill, alcoholic mother...
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Book chat: ‘The Dirty Life’ by Kristin Kimball
Kristin Kimball’s transition from tenacious New Yorker to muddied farm wife is lovingly documented in The Dirty Life: A Memoir of Farming, Food, and Love – and it almost made me want to get dirty...
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Book thoughts: Memoirs from Lena Dunham & Amy Poehler
I spend a great deal of time in the car these days. With the addition of driving to Oliver’s day care each weekday, I’m commuting at least 40 minutes daily — so I can plow my way through an audiobook...
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Book chat: ‘Why Not Me?’ by Mindy Kaling
Actress and writer Mindy Kaling is my vision of a talented Everywoman. Confident but approachable, warm and vivacious, Mindy is someone I aspire to be more like. I love her sass, her wit, her style . ....
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Book chat: ‘Year of Yes’ by Shonda Rhimes
I enjoyed the hell out of this book. I’ll say it again, complete with cursing (and I don’t take that lightly): I enjoyed the hell out of this book. As a woman. As a writer. As a mother. As a working...
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Book chat: ‘Midnight in Chernobyl’
What do you know about Chernobyl? What do you think you know about Chernobyl? I’ll go first: until a few weeks ago, next to nothing. As the wife of a physicist, I’ve been with Spencer as he “talks...
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Escaping with ‘Running Away to Home’
When it became apparent that we were all going to be settling in for the long haul during COVID-19, I immediately looked for an escape. Not a literal escape because, you know: quarantine. But...
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Swept up in ‘The Man Who Caught the Storm’
I thought I was a writer until I read Brantley Hargrove. Well, scratch that: I am a writer, but I am not Brantley Hargrove. Pick up The Man Who Caught the Storm: The Life of Legendary Storm Chaser Tim...
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write meg!’s 2020 reading honors
It was quite the reading year for me, friends! Not like the old days, exactly, but closer than I’ve been in the five years since welcoming my first child. I read 40 books, surpassing my annual goal of...
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Inventing Niagara
“Did you know they drained Niagara once?” The question popped up during one of my earliest trips to the famous falls — a bit of history, some trivia, as I walked the winding paths near its edge with...
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