RaeAnna + A Nerdy Lifestyle
Thank You For My Service by Mat Best is one of the better military memoirs I've read. He's a badass, I guess... I think he would've been cooler as a Marine, though. I'm not biased. As military adjacent, I like reading up on military nonfiction/memoirs, but as a critic, I'm wary because I've read some racist bullshit masquerading as a war memoir. I was surprised be this one and kept giggling by Best's turn of phrase.
Escape from Paris by Stephen Harding tells the unlikely story of how a German stronghold in the center of Paris became the safest place to hide American refugees.
I have too many good things to say about this novel for a soundbite. Absolutely affecting in every way.
So Long, Jacksonville! I flew in for the first time EXACTLY five years ago today. I'm flying in for, likely, the last time. I was not immediately smitten, but I've grown to love it.
101 Things I Learned in Law School by Vibeke Norgaard Martin is a great little book filled with humor and levity about how lawyers are not all-knowing but fallible human beings.
After adopting Beau, I was thrilled to find out she loves the water and doesn't take crap from a gaggle of audacious ducks. With the Texas heat being turned on high for ten months out of the year, we've been pooling, beaching, all around watering it up for two and a half years.