This is Show & Tell where I tell you some things I loved from the week and the one thing I hated, plus round up everything else going on around these parts. The first half of Show & Tell is free to all. The adoration and hateration are for paid subscribers only.

Um, why did this time change totally rock my world? I feel like we set the clocks back at least three hours, not just one.

Anyways.

This Friday I am dropping a new Nonfiction Files and I am just giving random nonfiction recs. So if you have a book you want a rec for, drop it in the comments and I will generate a little something something for you.

This Week in The Stacks

I did the thing I always worry about doing, I sent out this newsletter without a title. It wasn’t ideal, but I’m proud to report I survived.

October’s book club pick was Frankenstein and talking about it with was a highlight of the year. I loved the book and could’ve done about five more hours on it.

I read nine books in October and ranked them for you. I also lined up the 10 books I’m excited about in November.

Our book club pick for November is We the Animals by Justin Torres. I have never read his work, so I’m excited to read this slim novel1 about three brothers coming of age in upstate New York.

Books I Read This Week

Places I’ve Taken My Body by Molly McCully Brown
A collection of essays that “explores living within and beyond the limits of a body” shaped by cerebral palsy. Brown is a gifted writer who gives style without alienating the reader. While many of the essays began to run together for me, there were a handful that did stick out (one of forgetting and another on Frankenstein2) and allowed me the space to meditate more on our unique relationships to our bodies.

Coach by Jason Reynolds
The final installment in the Track series, which tells Coach’s backstory as a middle school sprinter. This book does exactly what I hoped it would and what you’d expect from the series. It is cute, and silly, and has a moral that lands. This one has a slower start and doesn’t really get cooking until the final third, but then it does all come