Category: books
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Everyone has an opinion about Caro Claire Burke’s recent debut novel Yesteryear. The novel tells the story of Natalie Heather Mills, a wildly successful tradwife influencer who wakes up one day to find she is transported to 1855. The novel alternates an account of Natalie’s rise to fame with scenes of her struggling to adapt…
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This year, I read 52 books. The books overlapped and intersected with each other, but somehow tidily added up to one book a week. Searching for themes, it’s easy to see my grief for my cat, Torby, processed in book form. I lost her just as 2025 began, and found comfort in every cat-related piece…
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I first read Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower in 2019. Originally published in 1993, Parable of the Sower gained renewed attention in the mid 10’s — reaching the NYT Bestseller list for the first time — for its prophetic depiction of a Trump-like presidency. Parable‘s President Christopher Donner, familiarly, vowed to return a crumbling United States to a long-lost…
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Am I actively reading all of these books? No. Is it comforting to know that certain books are just a stretch away at any given moment? Yes.
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Sometimes a book comes to you at exactly the right moment in your life. At first, you think it must be a fluke; certainly there will be a fork in the story where the plot deviates from your own reality. But then, sentence after sentence continues to feel like it was constructed personally with your…
Katie Fustich 