Tag: This is Not About Us

• My Top Ten of 2025 (and some honorable mentions)

  Last year, I documented my favorite reads of the year in an essay, My Top Ten of 2024, and it was difficult narrowing my list of 60 books read down to 10 favorites. This year, I had an equally tough time because I had a great reading year with a total of 70 books, and…

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  December 30, 2025

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  A Happy Catastrophe, Atmosphere, book-review, books, Dear Miss Lake, Every Tom Dick and Harry, fiction, literature, Murder on the Marlow Belle, My Friends, novel, reading, The Christie Affair, The Correspondent, The Homemade God, The Impossible Fortune, The Mysterious Bakery on Rue de Paris, The Mysterious Case of the Missing Crime Writer, The Wedding People, The White Octopus Hotel, This is Not About Us, Through an Open Window, top ten, Virginia Evans, writer, writing

• Book Review: This is Not About Us by Allegra Goodman

  

  This is Not About Us by Allegra Goodman (Random House, February 10, 2026) is described as “a kaleidoscopic portrait of a modern American family,” but in some ways, I feel like parts of this story could have been set way back in time. Yes, this story does involve a divorced couple co-parenting their two daughters,…

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  December 11, 2025

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  Allegra Goodman, Ann Napolitano, apple cake, ARC, book-review, books, Elizabeth Strout, family feud, fiction, food, Jewish culture, Kindle, NetGalley, novel, Olive Kitteridge, Random House, reading, sibling rivalry, sisters, This is Not About Us, Within Arm’s Reach