The return *taps mic* Hello. If you forgot who I am: Hi! I’m Ashley, a professional book person who can’t stop yapping about the books she’s reading and loving. Since we last met (in February!!!), some things have changed. I quit most of my freelance gigs. I lifted my years-long book-buying ban. I started reading…

brb Hi friend, I’m taking some time off. From this newsletter, from social media, from the internet as a whole (lol is that even possible?) until I start to feel like myself again. We take mental health seriously over here, and I don’t want to pretend to be something I’m not. Being a professional book…

Hi, friend. We did it! We made it to the end of another year. It feels like 2022 is going out with a whisper, and that is a-okay by me. Things have been a bit glum and introspective in the House o’ Crooked Reads—aka my brain—as the year comes to a close. For so long,…

It’s not our fault the system is broken. Hi, friend. The world is an absolutely wild place these days, and I’m trying to cling to some sense of normalcy. So here we are with some book recommendations, as well as two month’s worth of links to other bookish stuff I’ve written around the internet. This…