5 Books for August 2025
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5 Books...
📚 Book club read: The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri | I read this one many years ago and am excited to return to it. It explores the immigrant experience, the clash of cultures, the conflicts of assimilation, and the tangled ties between generations. Come read with us for the Year of Belonging in August!
📚 In the middle of reading: Olive Days by Jessica Elisheva Emerson | This is a quiet novel about an Orthodox Jewish wife and mother in LA who undergoes an awakening of sorts. I’m really not sure how it will end, but I’m curious to find out!
📚 Just finished: Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows by Bali Kaur Jaswal | The title is lol, and there is a bit of spice in the book, but this was just a really fun, creative read about a woman who gets hired to teach Punjabi widows basic literacy, but they end up writing their own spicy stories.
📚 Seasonal read: I’m not going to stop recommending second chance romance novels! My latest read was The Summers Between Us by Noreen Nanja.
📚 Timely recommendation: Taking the State Out of the Body: A Guide to Embodied Resistance to Zionism by Eliana Rubin | I haven’t started this one yet, but according to the description, “this book will equip you with the tools you need to move from rugged individualist models of self-help/preservation to liberatory frameworks of collective care and joint struggle.” I need this - don’t you, too?
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