I loved the combination of recipes, photos, and stories from Palestine. Lots of really lovely looking recipes - and many vegan or easily veganizable options from the collection.

There aren't many cookbooks I read through cover to cover, but this was one of them.

I wanted a cozy mystery series I could really dig into. I wanted to give this series a chance but I think this is going to be it. The casual fatphobic weight obsession of the authour went full on into nonsense land in this book.

The lead character is obsessed with her weight and the weights of other people, fine, that's been kind of silly from the beginning of the series but heck, this one went beyond average middle-age weight obsession and just into full on disgust.

I love the idea of mysteries set in a small town, with bookstores and a woman protagonist but this series is not it.

I still just want to pee alone, but this wasn't the book for me.
Some funny stuff, a lot of what felt like forced swearing (and I like swearing too, a lot), some common tropes of silly husband and my kid is an asshole kind of stuff, that just didn't resonate with me.

Part memoir, part examination of the research, treatment, racism, and failures of care and successes of care and treatment in mental health and specifically depression and suicidality.

She approaches this so honestly, and with a reporters eye for detail and analysis. I cannot recommend this enough, especially if you have friends or family that have depression. I'd love to see clinicians read this book.

Great writing, consistent voice, and so many sources and angles of research. It took me longer to read than most books, at least in part due to the gravity of the topic.