Today’s the day! Let’s wrap up our chats on Nichole Perkins’ beautifully, brutally honest essay  collection. Her opinions and views on self, relationships, womanhood, and the way that the influence of pop culture directs and shapes those things are piercingly perceptive and real. Today we’ll be digging into some specifics, and get into just what in the world Miss Piggy has to do with self-discovery and identity. I hope you enjoyed reading along with me on this book throughout this month. I hope that this little book-loving space has inspired you to make more time for  books, to grow a greater love for them, and to find something in them that you hadn’t ever known before. Until we meet here again, take good care, and happy reading.

It’s time to check in on this month’s read! Is anyone else blushing yet? Laughing? Crying? Perkins’ essays threw me around emotionally from one to the next; her thoughts, feelings,and stories are unpredictable, sometimes in the best and sometimes in the worst of ways, but taken all together they make for an absolutely unique collection. Today, we’ll talk a bit about Nichole Perkins as a person and as a writer before dipping our toes into some of the book’s most standout themes and features. Most importantly,I want to think about why, especially for this book, the format of the book as an essay collection holds significance and value to the way we read her stories. Enjoy the rest of this holiday season, and see you when we come back together at the end of the month!

A happy chilly December! This month our focus turns to Nichole Perkins’ essay collection, Sometimes I Trip On How Happy We Could Be. This book is honest, and open, and in it, Perkins shares all, about all, for us all, without any reservations. It isn’t all pretty, but it all comes together to give us a picture of who she is – one of the major purposes of writers sharing their most personal works. Before we jump into this book, though, I’ll take some time today to talk about my vague, still pretty lax, but nonetheless hopeful reading goals for the new year, as we come closer and closer to it every day. I know myself better than to make any goals too specific, but it’s still important, I think, to give myself a roadmap to guide my way and keep working through my stacks. Thanks for joining me and happy reading this month!