Book Club: April 2026
Our March pick reviewed + everything else I read + April's Book Club selection (and a giveaway!)
Hi friends! Book club is getting a refresh — and I think you’re going to love it. Around week six, I opened a draft, stared at it, and thought: what if we just... simplified this? (Pun intended. Welcome to my brain.) Here’s the new format: one post, first Tuesday of every month. My pick for what we’re reading together, everything else I’ve been reading, and what’s on my nightstand next. All things bookish, in one place — and we talk about it in the comments.
Simpler. Lighter. More me.
What I love about book club isn’t the formal structure — it’s knowing I’m reading alongside someone else, and having a place to land when I finish. And honestly? I love knowing what you’re reading just as much. (Please. Add to my TBR. I beg.) So this is the new format. And after writing this post, I already love it and hope you do too.
One more thing — I’m bribing you to comment. I want this comments section to be a gold mine for “what should I read next?” answers, so this month I’m giving away a big PR box filled with brands I genuinely love: Olaplex, BloomEffects (a gorgeous skincare brand from Amsterdam), and K18. I receive a lot of great beauty PR and I’d love to pass the love on to you. Winner selected randomly from the comments — so just show up and say hi, tell us what you’ve read recently and what you’d rate it. 🎁
Mattering by Jennifer Breheny Wallace ⭐⭐⭐💫
This one hit differently than I expected. It’s about what makes people feel like they matter — specifically how that plays out in the lives of women, mothers, and families. Relevant doesn’t even begin to cover it. A few passages stopped me completely. Here are a couple I keep thinking about:
“Mattering is not about what we achieve. It’s about feeling significant to someone, somewhere.”
“When mothers don’t feel like they matter, everyone in the family feels it.”
“The most powerful gift we can give our children is the feeling that they are significant. But we cannot give what we do not have.”
That last one stayed with me for days. It connects directly to so much of what I’m thinking about for my next book. After I moved on from Mattering, I picked up a few fantastic books: two fiction stories (both set in the 1940s-1950s and then a thriller from one of my favorite authors. Here are my thoughts…
