A reading diary about dark romance, serialized fiction, and the stuff we reach for when the lights are out and sleep isn't coming.
The relationship books, the pop-psychology volumes, the occasional memoir. The reading that informs the reading. Because the romances we love are often trying to say what these books try to say, only more carefully.
I read a lot of relationship books, both the good kind and the self-help-airport-bookstore kind. These four changed how I think. The other thirty-six, with two or three exceptions, did not.
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Saturday mornings, before most people are awake, one email goes out. Two or three short entries, a recommendation, sometimes a question. No ads. No tracking pixels. Just the journal.