In this week's New Yorker, an essay on Jonathan Lee's "achingly good new novel." ???

It is, on reflection, good training to be a courtesan. A woman of any kind.

Her siren call was irresistible, and now I'm hooked.

Helping me decide which of my two current reads to bring for lunch break... (@Litsy idea: we should be able to tag multiple books in a single post)

What if I just reread this book every six months until such time as it stopped cracking me wide open? With our due date just 5 weeks away, I cannot stop revisiting Nelson's birth story, moved beyond measure.