Tiny book reviews, 2021

★★★★★ Bartleby the Scrivener & Benito CerenoHerman Melville | The Book of Joy, Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu, and Douglas Carlton Abrams | Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, Isabel Wilkerson | Felicity, Mary Oliver | Letters to a Young Poet, Ranier Marie Rilke | Me Talk Pretty One Day, David Sedaris | Mexican Gothic, Silvia Moreno-Garcia | My Monticello, Jocelyn Nicole Johnson | No One Is Talking About This, Patricia Lockwood | See No Stranger, A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love, Valarie Kaur | Thick: And Other Essays, Tressie McMillan Cottom | We Should All Be Feminists, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | What It Is, Lynda Barry | Wholehearted Faith, Rachel Held Evans | Wintering, Katherine May ★★★★ Against White Feminism, Rafia Zakaria | Boom Town, Sam Anderson | The Boy, The Mole, The Fox, and the Horse, Charlie Mackesy | Brag Better, Meredith Fineman | The Chosen, Chaim Potek | The Color of Magic, Terry Pratchett | Dusk, Night, Dawn, Anne Lamott | Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals, Oliver Burkeman | Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art, Stephen Nachmanovitch | Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone, Diana Gabaldon | How Music Works, David Byrne | It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work, Jason Fried | Libertie: A Novel, Kaitlyn Greenidge | Make Your Art No Matter What, Beth Pickens | Minor Feelings, Cathy Park Hong | Ordinary Genius: A Guide for the Poet Within | Rules of Civility, Amor Towles | Steal Like an Artist + Show Your Work + Keep Going, Austin Kleon | A Thousand Ships, Natalie Haynes | Transcendent Kingdom, Yaa Gyasi | Trick Mirror, Jia Tolentino | Vesper FlightsHelen MacDonald | Who Is Maud Dixon?, Alexandra Andrews | A World Without Email, Cal Newport ★★★  | The Back of the Napkin, Dan Roam | The Book of Longings, Sue Monk Kidd | Bring on the BlessingsBeverly Jenkins | A Court of Thorns and Roses, Sarah J. Maas | Dearly, Margaret Atwood | Digital Minimalism, Cal Newport | The Hummingbird’s Gift, Sy Montgomery | The Lost Apothecary, Sarah Penner | Men Explain Things to Me, Rebecca Solnit | Mrs. March, Virginia Feito | No Cure for Being Human, Kate Bowler | The Power of RitualCasper Ter Kuile | The Practice: Shipping Creative WorkSeth Godin | Very Important People: Status and Beauty in the Global Party Circuit, Ashley Mears ★★ Billy Summers, Stephen King

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