MutterReads: bargain edition

Today on Amazon for $1.99: Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff. Lotto and Mathilde meet in college and fall madly in love. They begin their lives in New York in the 1990s where Lotto pursues acting while Mathilde works in an art gallery to support them. When one drunken night …

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MutterReads: play ball

In honor of baseball’s spring training I recommend The Resisters by Gish Jen. In a post-new world order called Auto-America, much of the country is under water and divided into two classes: The Netters, fair-skinned people living on higher ground and afforded life’s luxuries and The Surplus, mostly copper-toned people …

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mutter reads – Dear Edward

Don’t let the premise deter you. Dear Edward is a beautifully written novel that deftly moves the reader between heartbreak and hope in the aftermath of unspeakable tragedy. Twelve-year-old Edward is the only survivor of a horrific plane crash that takes the lives of 191 people, including his parents and …

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mutter reads: Demi Moore

For Oscar weekend, a mutterhood reader recommends Demi Moore’s memoir Inside Out. Moore, who rose to superstar status with movies like Indecent Proposal, A Few Good Men and Ghost, was one of the first women in Hollywood to demand pay equity with her male co-stars. Here she recounts her rocky …

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make a list

Is there anything better than a new book for Christmas? (Trick question – there’s nothing better!) We could always list a bunch of recommendations from the Best Of 2019 lists, but we thought, why not ask the women we featured in mutterhood this year to tell us what’s topping their …

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