What I’ve been reading lately: the new and the notable

Welcome to Quick Lit, where we share short and sweet reviews of what we’ve been reading lately on the 15th of the month.

I spent a large chunk of my reading time this month revisiting FIVE books I’ve previously read and loved—as you’ll see below—so I worried I wouldn’t be able to pull together an interesting list of monthly reads. But as you’ll see, my fears were in vain. It was a great, varied, wonderful reading month.

I’m compiling my list of 2021 favorite reads right now, and I’m cer...