Guest Post: Patrick

When consulted about the best way to remove grease from a lightbulb, I knew I had to share the answer: Turn off light, unscrew, and place expired light in a paper bag. It’s not the greenest way, but it gets it done.

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Books I’ve read in 2022

1) The Year of Magical Thinking (Joan Didion)
2) The Maid (Nita Prose)
3) Atlas of the Heart (Brene Brown)
4) Everything I Have is Yours (Eleanor Henderson)
5) Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Phillip K. Dick)
6) Pocho (Jose Antonio Villarreal)
7) The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois (Honoree Fanonne Jeffers)
8) The Night Circus (Erin Morgenstern)
9) Fiona & Jane (Jean Chen Ho)
10) Boyfriend Material (Alexis Hall)
11) The Art of Vanishing (Laura Smith)
12) Short Eyes (Miguel Piñero)
13) The Mixquiahuala Letters (Ana Castillo)
14) The Perfect Storm (Sebastian Jungler)
15) Vladimir (Julia Mae Jonas)
16) The Tree You Come Home To (Jane Olmsted)
17) The Love Hypothesis (Ali Hazelwood)
18) Doing Harm (Maya Dusenberry)
19) The Lincoln Highway (Amor Towles)
20) Martita, I Remember You (Sandra Cisneros)
21) Make Your Home Among Strangers (Jeannine Capo Crucet)
22) The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love (Oscar Hijuelos)
23) I Must Betray You (Ruta Sepetys)
24) Passport (Sophia Glock)
25) The Kiss Quotient (Helen Hoang)
26) Dancing at the Pity Party (Tyler Feder)
27) The Charm Offensive (Alison Cochrun)
28) The Viscount Who Loved Me (Julia Quinn)
29) Persepolis (Marjane Satrapi)
30) This is How You Lose Her (Junot Diaz)
31) Tell Me Everything (Erika Krouse)
32) Another Brooklyn (Jacqueline Woodson)
33) Wild Game (Adrienne Brodeur)
34) The Heiress Gets a Duke (Harper St. George)
35) The Devil and the Heiress (Harper St. George)
36) One Two Three (Laurie Frankel)
37) True Biz (Sara Novic)
38) The Undocumented Americans (Karla Cornejo Villavicencio)
39) Bad Feminist (Roxane Gay)
40) Good and Mad (Rebecca Traister)
41) The Lady Tempts the Heir (Harper St. George)
42) The Parable of the Sower (Octavia Butler)
43) The Swimmers (Julie Otsuka)
44) The Diamond Eye (Kate Quinn)
45) The Lifeguards (Amanda Eyre Ward)
46) A Backpack, a Bear, and Eight Crates of Vodka (Lev Golokin)
47) The Soul of an Octopus (Sy Montgomery)
48) Almost American Girl (Robin Ha)
49) The Nine Lives of Rose Napolitano by (Donna Freitas)
50) To Night Owl from Dogfish (Holly Sloan and Meg Wolitizer)
51) Lessons in Chemistry (Bonnie Garmus)
52) Bad Blood (John Carryou)
53) Delilah Green Doesn’t Care (Ashley Herring Blake)
54) When Breath Becomes Air (Paul Kalanithi)
55) My Body (Emily Ratajowski)
56) The Girl With the Make Believe Husband (Julia Quinn)
57) First Comes Scandal (Julia Quinn)
58) How the Word is Passed (CLint Smith)
59) Yerba Buena (Nina LaCoeur)
60) Maid (Stephanie Land)
61) Book Lovers (Emily Henry)
62) Take My Hand (Dortea Perkins-Valdez)
63) The Lifestyle (Taylor Hahn)
64) This Time Tomorrow (Emma Straub)
65) Crying in the Bathroom (Erika Sanchez)
66) Happy-Go-Lucky (David Sedaris)
67) Written in the Stars (Alexandria Bellefleur)
68) Bomb Shelter (Mary Laura Philpott)
69) Cloud Cuckoo Land (Anthony Doerr)
70) Any Other Family (Eleanor Brown)
71) Far From the Tree (Robin Benway)
72) The Bodyguard (Katherine Center)
73) The Queer Principles of Kit Webb (Cat Sebastian)
74) The Perfect Crimes of Marian Hayes (Cat Sebastian)
75) Juliet Takes a Breath (Gabby Rivera)
76) Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow (Gabrielle Zevin)
77) The Power (Naomi Alderman)
78) Fun Home (Alison Bechdel)
79) Husband Material (Alexis Hall)
80) The Sentence (Louise Edhrich)
81) Short Eyes (Miguel Pinero)
82) Thank You for Listening (Julia Whelan)
83) Carrie Soto is Back (Taylor Jenkins Reid)
84) Fiona and Jane (Jean Chen Ho) (again)
85) Killers of a Certain Age (Deanna Raybourn)
86) Lucy by the Sea (Elizabeth Strout)
87) Razorblade Tears (SA Crosby)
88) The Most Likely Club (Elyssa Friedland)
89) Woman Hollering Creek (Sandra Cisneros)
90) George Washington Gomez (Americo Paredes)
91) Giovanni’s Room (James Baldwin)
92) Unbound (Tarana Burke)
93) The Bondwoman’s Narrative (Hannah Crafts)
94) Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (Benjamin Aliere Saenz)
95) Part of Your World (Abby Jimenez)
96) A Single Thread (Tracey Chevalier)
97) It Would Be Night in Caracas (Karina Sainz Borgo)
98) The Three Mothers (Anna Malaika Tubbs)
99) Signal Fires (Dani Shapiro)
100) Detransition, Baby (Torrey Peters)
101) Fates and Furies (Lauren Groff)
102) Mistakes Were Made (Meryl Wilsner)
103) The Palace Papers (Tina Brown)
104) A Little Life (Hanya Yanagihara)
105) Kiss Her Once for Me (Alison Cochran)

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