5 Books for September 2025
5 Books...
📚 Book club read: How to Make Herself Agreeable to Everyone by Cameron Russell. I’m excited to dive into this memoir about belonging to yourself in the midst of the fashion industry. We have three more months left for our 2025 Year of Belonging: come read with us in September!
📚 In the middle of reading: Sun House by David James Duncan | This book is 784 pages...😬but came highly recommended as funny and deep so I’m diving in. By “in the middle of” I mean I’ve read like 50 pages and my Kindle says I have 20 hours left, LOL
📚 Just finished: Reclaiming Your Community: You Don’t Have to Move out of Your Neighborhood to Live in a Better One by Majora Carter | I’m going to visit my friend Majora in October and wanted to read about her neighborhood before getting to visit in person. If you care about community development or are worried about gentrification, READ THIS BOOK. She’s has such creative ideas and is so funny. I learned so much and laughed out loud several times.
📚 Seasonal read: Financial Feminist: Overcome the Patriarchy's Bullsh*t to Master Your Money and Build a Life You Love by Tori Dunlap | Tis the season to work on your money hangups. This was one of my big goals for this year, was to really dive into my relationship with money. I grew up a) believing it was wrong to have money and 2) believing that I wouldn’t have to think about making money. One of my favorite business coaches, Simone Grace Seol, emailed recently about how we should say no to billionaires but yes to millionaires. She wrote, “The question isn’t whether wealth is good or evil. The question is whether you're extracting from your community or strengthening it. Whether you are hoarding wealth or circulating it.” I’ve been working through my own issues with making enough money to feel financially stable and empowered. Anyways, Tori’s book was helpful!What are you reading? Have you read any of these? I'd love to hear back from you; just hit reply!
📚 Timely recommendation: The Girl Who Baptized Herself by Meggan Watterson | This BOOK! I read her previous book about Mary Magdalene years ago and remember being freaked out by it and *not convinced.* I’m sure if I read it now I’d resonate more with it, and that’s on growth and change. But I truly loved this one about a story called the Acts of Paul and Thecla that was written around the same time as most of the New Testament, but didn’t make it into the Bible. It gave me hope for a version of Christianity that doesn’t suppress women's voices and power.
