While Kim and Alice take a short summer break, enjoy this episode from the archive about reading for self care!
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Nonfiction in the News
National Book Critics Circle Award Winners Announced [Book Riot]
Best-Selling Author Brené Brown Promotes Meaningful Change in Trailer for HBO Max’s ‘Atlas of the Heart’ [The Wrap]
New Nonfiction
Letter to a Stranger: Essays to the Ones Who Haunt Us by Colleen Kinder
Dress Code: Unlocking Fashion from the New Look to Millennial Pink by Veronique Hyland
You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation by Julissa Arce
Hell’s Half-Acre: The Untold Story of the Benders, America’s First Serial Killer Family by Susan Jonusas
All the White Friends I Couldn’t Keep: Hope – and Hard Pills to Swallow – About Fighting for Black Lives by Andre Henry
Burning My Roti: Breaking Barriers as a Queer Indian Woman by Sharan Dhaliwal
Reads for Self Care
World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments by Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Calypso by David Sedaris
The Lazy Genius Way: Embrace What Matters, Ditch What Doesn’t, and Get Stuff Done by Kendra Adachi
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Reading Now
The Christie Affair by Nina de Gramont
The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu
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