Staff Picks Book Reviews
Porchlight is a company filled with voracious readers—talented, creative individuals who know books, and who excel at moving them. Whenever we can, we like to do that by telling you about the books we’re reading.
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In Praise of Good Bookstores
Book Review by Emily Porter
In Praise of Good Bookstores is a wonderful read for all lovers of books and all of those who make books their calling, a thank you to the hardworking booksellers of the world for doing so, as it makes our lives more enriched.
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Dessert Person: Recipes and Guidance for Baking with Confidence
Book Review by Lauren Kohlenberg
I have always been an avid baker, but I did not know what kind of baker I wanted to be until I got my hands on a copy of Claire Saffitz’s Dessert Person.
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Time is a Mother
Book Review by Gabbi Cisneros
Newly published in the first week of national poetry month, Time is a Mother is an emotionally full and truthful collection of grief, progress, and identity.
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Love and Work: How to Find What You Love, Love What You Do, and Do It for the Rest of Your Life
Book Review by Jasmine Gonzalez
I hope, in writing this review, in doing what I can to “take this, all of it, and do something with it,” that the right person will find it at the time they need it most, that someone else’s galaxies will once again shine brightly, too.
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Why Fish Don't Exist : A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life
Book Review by Emily Porter
Lulu Miller’s book shows how people throughout history can be perceived as someone completely different than their true character and shows us how to look at the world from many different perspectives to process what is in front of us while asking existential questions. Fish truly do not exist. Read this book to find out why.
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How Strange a Season: Fiction
Book Review by Gabbi Cisneros
In these dark Americana stories, women seek cathartic releases of their pent-up mental, emotional, and physical energy in the same way the earth communicates neglect through landslides, droughts, collapsing marine ecosystems, fierce winds, and rising seas.
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Pay Up: The Future of Women and Work (and Why It's Different Than You Think)
Book Review by Jasmine Gonzalez
For the people who have the most power to change the world around them, this book is an excellent directive on how to create a more equitable workforce and society for all.
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What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma
Book Review by Emily Porter
A raw and honest memoir, detailing how this amazing woman pulled herself through a horrific upbringing that no one should have to brave, and her healing journey after being diagnosed with C-PTSD, What My Bones Know brought tears to my eyes and joy to my heart reading how Foo triumphed after trauma.
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The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters
Book Review by Jasmine Gonzalez
The pandemic has made clear how we can’t take for granted the moments we spend in the company of others. The Art of Gathering is, at its heart, a rallying cry for honoring the people we love and making those fleeting moments truly special.
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You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation
Book Review by Gabbi Cisneros
Julissa Arce has written an impassioned, well-structured, and empowering introduction to the web of issues in America that are preventing so many of its inhabitants from achieving the freedom and equality that the country advertises.
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