Favorite Books – Appic News

This Book’s First Sentence Blew Me Away

What’s your favorite first line in a book? First, here are a few famous ones… “It is a truth universally

Last month, I was on a long-awaited FaceTime catch-up with my friends Mary and Laura. We’re all writers and parents

Last month, when I read Rachel Hochhauser’s Lady Tremaine — a reimagining of Cinderella from the perspective of her stepmother

“Why am I like this?” writes Ella Quittner on the cover of her own cookbook. She is delightfully obsessive — always

I’m reading Lindy West’s upcoming memoir Adult Braces, and her dispatches from an Eat-Pray-Love-style road trip makes me laugh out

The other day, I was texting with an old friend, who told me he reads only non-fiction but wants to