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For women who love to read. Book picks from Napa Valley's coolest indie bookstore paired with characteristically good finds.
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Kinship (opens the original)
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I think that the new Sharon Horgan show, Youth, might be about me?? I have to laugh — it’s about a woman who owned a small bookstore and is now in publishing and every few minutes Andrew is looking over saying, this is totally you. When her ex-husband says that she shouldn’t hate him just because his job is fun, I just about died. At this point, it’s turned into an on-going joke in our house. In fact, just the other day Andrew “had” to have long, boozy lunch at our favorite French restaurant as
A Buzzy Fall Book to Blow Your Mind (opens the original)
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There’s a scene in Strangers that keeps rattling around in my mind. It’s Easter, a month after her husband has upended their lives, and Belle is out there in a springy dress and boots, ruining a batch of cinnamon rolls and rigging a string of connected clues through the woods behind her house for the annual egg hunt. Her life is falling apart, she's a mess, and there she is anyway, acting the part of perfect mom.I recognized it instantly, because I have staged my own version of that performance.
Belle of the Ball (opens the original)
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Fair warning: you’re only getting a mini book review this week because I spent all of last week re-reading Strangers to get ready for my interview with the absolutely magnificent Belle Burden. I know you don’t mind and I promise to have a full review next week along with the typical novel pairings.But for now, Belle Burden, people! I feel like the absolute luckiest person to get to sit down with these funny, brilliant, interesting women. She walked into the room where I was setting up and we dou
In the Beginning (opens the original)
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I am a ruminator. If someone says something hateful or hurtful, I will think about it relentlessly. I’m sure it can all be traced back to some rejection in my childhood, some pattern that I continue to play out in various parts of my life. I’m fairly certain it’s the thing that holds me back from my bigger dreams — writing a memoir feels like nothing short of inviting judgment on your actual life and I’m not entirely sure that I can handle it. There’s also the fact that I am a woman and most wom
Southern Comfort (opens the original)
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I have many skills. Planning a kid’s birthday party is not one of them.Nell, my baby, turned seven on Sunday, and she had a very specific vision for the celebration: a slip n’ slide, water guns, rapid-fill water balloons, a lion-shaped piñata that had nothing to do with the water theme, and a Cookie Monster ice cream cake. All pretty doable. She invited four friends — one had a conflict of parties, one canceled 10 minutes before, so we were down to two.In all fairness, I cannot be trusted with t
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