Samantha Macy

I’ve been following Melissa Urban on Instagram for a while now. Five years, at least. Honestly, the Melissa Urban who exists on Instagram today seems like a whole departure from “It Starts with Food.” I read one of her other books, “Food Freedom Forever,” a few years ago, and that seems much more aligned with …

Angela Davis is a genius. I was reading this book on my Kindle, and highlighting every sentence that made me feel like “Wow, that is so profound” and then I had to stop myself, because it is not useful to highlight every line of the book. But really, just about every line of this book …

2020 has involved a lot of being alone for many of us, so I picked up this book, which has been on my bookshelf for a while. The only way I can think to describe “The Lonely City” by Olivia Laing is as an art history memoir. And, given that 2020 is the year when …

I was in charge of buying new books to restock our classroom libraries this summer, and it was a lot of fun. I don’t normally buy a lot of books, so this was like getting to go on a book-buying spree for my kids. One of the books I ordered for school was “When Stars …

I had heard of “The Body is Not an Apology” here and there in body -positivity spaces online, but the reason I read this book was Sonya Renee Taylor’s interview on Brené Brown’s podcast. “I am not simply proposing that you make peace with your body because your body shame is making you miserable. I …

I don’t think that I’m the target market for this book. I can see how it might be useful to some people – if you’re really unhappy and dissatisfied in your career, and not sure how to change things to make your career into something that you’re more satisfied with, I can see how this …

I really liked this book. It’s not the type of thing that I’m usually into – young adult novels written in verse? Not really my thing. But “Clap When You Land” was striking and heart-wrenching and it was all wrapped up in loss and finding out that your parent was so much more than the …