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I wonder if this is because I need to check my shame levels daily, like a diabetic checks her insulin levels.

Glennon Doyle • Love Warrior (Oprah's Book Club): A Memoir

I grew up as a pleasure to have in class . A little chatty, sure, but my homework was always done, and I got along well with my schoolmates. I loved the approval. I knew how to be good; I was always smiling, laughing, and ready to lend a hand. In her 2023 book On Our Best Behavior: The Seven Deadly Sins and The Price Women Pay to Be Good , Elise Lo... See more

Michelle Albanes-Davis • Good Girl

As if I was a juice fast, or a series of TED talks.

Sophie Kinsella • I Owe You One: The Number One Sunday Times Bestseller

I used to hate myself; eventually, I didn’t anymore. I used to be shy; eventually, I made my living by talking too much.

Lindy West • Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman

Into this fog slipped Halle Butler’s Banal Nightmare . The novel, Butler’s third, is the story of Moddie, an overeducated and underachieving thirtysomething who, following a seismic breakup, abandons Chicago for her Midwestern hometown, where she tries to get a grip on her life. It’s a sharp book, with painfully real characters and perfectly pitche... See more