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The New One: Painfully True Stories from a Reluctant Dad
Mike Birbiglia
★★★★★· Published 2020· 256 pages· read 2025
Birbiglia on becoming a dad when he really wasn't sure he wanted to be. Funny and honest in the way only he can pull off.
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A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
Bill Bryson
Bryson and his hopelessly unfit old friend attempt the Appalachian Trail. I laughed out loud more than once.
When Breath Becomes Air
Paul Kalanithi
A young neurosurgeon writes about his own dying as terminal cancer takes hold. Unbearably moving and somehow not depressing. Cried, of course.
End Credits: How I Broke Up with Hollywood
Patty Lin
A TV writer (Friends, Breaking Bad) on why she walked away from Hollywood. Blunt, funny, and refreshingly unsentimental about the dream job.