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I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman by Nora Ephron

dark emotional funny reflective fast-paced

3.5

Nora Ephron is a great writer, very funny, and very insightful. A lot of this book doesn’t seem to quite land in 2023, but I enjoyed many other parts. Her style of humor reminds me so much of my grandma :)

Hello Sleep: The Science and Art of Overcoming Insomnia Without Medications by Jade Wu

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informative inspiring medium-paced

4.5

Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

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challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat by Aubrey Gordon

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challenging emotional informative medium-paced

4.5

love aubrey! maintenance phase listeners won’t be shocked by any of the info in this book, but it’s great to see so many of the concepts on the show laid out into a book, along with personal anecdotes that tie it all together

The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century by Amia Srinivasan

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challenging emotional informative medium-paced

5.0

Graceland, At Last: Notes on Hope and Heartache From the American South by Margaret Renkl

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emotional funny informative lighthearted reflective medium-paced

3.5

a fairly enjoyable read, but definitely written for a non-Southern audience. I like Renkl’s writing but she didn’t dig very deep on most of the topics covered in the book (to be fair, they are NYT columns). Mostly enjoyed learning more about Nashville!

How to Be a Good Creature: A Memoir in Thirteen Animals by Sy Montgomery

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adventurous emotional funny hopeful reflective fast-paced

4.0

Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit

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emotional funny informative inspiring medium-paced

3.5

Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism by Amanda Montell

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emotional funny informative fast-paced

4.25