5 Books for May 2026

5 Books...

📚 Book club read: Unmaking Mary: Shattering the Myth of Perfect Motherhood by Chine McDonald | Obvi reading this for Mother’s Day. This was one of those books that I eagerly anticipated its release and then gobbled it up so quickly, even though it’s a deep book. Just so deeply up my alley to read about how church culture has weaponized Mary against women for centuries and how she can be a liberating figure for us.

📚 In the middle of reading: Unbound: A Woman’s Guide to Power by Kasia Urbaniak | I cannot remember how I heard of this book, just that I saw it somewhere and was intrigued. I’ve done a lot of processing about power and agency over the last 10 years. I want to get more comfortable with owning my power in a feminine way vs having to emulate masculine power to succeed. This book gets at the topic in a really interesting way by talking about dominant and submissive power (often coded male/yang and female/yin). I’m digging it so far.

📚 Just finished: A Generation of Sociopaths by Bruce Cannon Gibney | A cousin recommended this to me and it was a fascinating listen. Gibney breaks down the real systems at work and real policy decisions made by real people that made this generation’s life harder. It also helped me remember that we can keep having an imagination for the future that we want to see, and work toward it too.

📚 Oldie but Goodie: Summer is coming, and if you're a working mom, you already feel it — the mental load is about to double. Fair Play by Eve Rodsky is the book my husband and I actually used in 2020 to make the invisible work visible, and it changed how we figured out who was carrying what. If you haven't read it yet, pre-summer is the perfect time.

📚 Timely recommendation: Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir | If there’s a good movie out, I’m gonna read the book first. I enjoyed this a lot and was very compelled to find out how it ended. Although I definitely  saw lots of good chatter online about how if anyone is going to save the world at this point, we don’t know if we can trust a mediocre white man to do that. And I’m not just throwing shade, the main character in this book is extremely mediocre, seemed to have no genuine connection with other humans, and (SPOILER ALERT) had to be literally forced into this earth-saving mission. 

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