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My Year of Really Bad Dates

The Dangers and Heartaches of Dating Author: Rachel J. Lithgow Let’s be honest: movies and TV lie, because dating at any age is horrible. For Rachel, it’s insult added to injury. She is recently divorced and recovering from essentially being her depressive husband’s around-the-clock caretaker and his verbally abusive family’s favorite punching bag. She’s broken and finally seeking a relationship that gives instead of only taking. Even worse, the man who was her touchstone after the divorce, her on-again off-again ex-boyfriend Joe, is leaving her to move to another state with another woman, a blonde real-estate agent with a “live-laugh-love” vibe.  [...]

2025-10-21T14:49:42-07:00October 21st, 2025|Tags: , , , , , , , |

More: A Memoir of Open Marriage

"My heart is open enough to hold it all.” Author: Molly Roden Winter Molly’s late-night disagreement with her husband opens a door to a new kind of marriage. In More: A Memoir of Open Marriage Molly ostensibly tells the story of encountering freedom in her marriage, but the actual truth of this supposedly ethically non-monogamous relationship seeps from between the chaotic lines of love sought and lost over the Internet and in shady meetups. What we really get is a story of less: a story of gaslighting and a woman trapped in a bad marriage that she desperately wants to both [...]

2025-10-17T13:01:08-07:00October 17th, 2025|Tags: , , , , , , , |

Woman In the Polar Night, A

"You must live through the long night, the storms, and the destruction of human pride." Author: Christiane Ritter I was excited when my book club chose A Woman in the Polar Night. Over the last few years, I’ve found a deep connection with memoirs and autobiographies, and I’ve always had a love affair with the forbidding, forgotten places on this planet. After watching John Carpenter’s The Thing as a child (I know, I know), I fell in love with the beautiful, dangerous vistas and the isolation of Antarctica, so I was excited to learn more about Christiane Ritter’s unprecedented adventure to [...]

2025-08-03T11:02:38-07:00August 3rd, 2025|Tags: , , , , , , |
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