Ep 31: Best Books Lately with Alyssa Hertzig
/My favorite type of episode! All about books…the best we’ve read this summer, plus reading habits and what’s on our To-Read list.
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My guest for this bookish conversation is Alyssa Hertzig. Alyssa lives in Hoboken New Jersey with her husband and two kids, and she worked for years as a beauty editor at magazines such as Allure, Brides, Harper’s Bazaar, Good Housekeeping. She is now the contributing beauty editor at Rachael Ray Every Day magazine, and also freelance writes for several publications.
Alyssa has a lifestyle blog called The Sparkly Life, and you can regularly find her on Instagram as @alyssahertzig and her new bookstagram account @alyssaisbooked.
BOOKS
Mentioned by Laura:
Maybe You Should Talk To Someone by Lori Gottlieb
The Gifted School by Bruce Holsinger
(Likened to Big Little Lies by Lianne Moriarty)
The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin
Burnout by Emily Nagoski and Amelia Nagoski
(Come As You Are by Emily Nagoski)
Other Notables:
The Most Fun We Ever Had by Claire Lombardo
Three Women by Lisa Taddeo (and the IG post where I posted my original review)
How To Be An Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo
Books I’m hoping to revisit this fall:
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
Mentioned by Alyssa:
City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert
Save Me The Plums by Ruth Reichl
Ask Again, Yes by Mary Beth Keane
Other Notables:
Fleishman is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner
Looking forward in the fall:
The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
American Royals by Katharine McGee
The Others Gold by Elizabeth Ames
Thanks for listening!
