I’m ushering us back into the unsought exploration of avoidance and ambivalence, aka defining Nice Guys. There are two genders: the Nice and the Kind. If something sounds nice, it doesn’t mean that it's kind. The Nice are perception-focused, the Kind are relationship-focused both: with others and themselves.

Read more for some novels that sift through the damage of indifference.

A selection of books that helped me grieve versions of myself, friendships, limerence, heroes, frameworks now broken, memories, and even mindsets that, to quote the Love & Light crowd, no longer serve me. If speaking about grief is an act of love, then reading about it is too.

This edition’s book recommendations are all about enigmatic women, but more so the attraction and bewilderment surrounding them, and sometimes a peek into their own interiority (or even the unriddling of their enigmatic presentation).

Quantity is a quality of its own and romance novels are the publishing industry’s best-selling genre for many, many reasons. Recommendations for books that feel like Mr. Darcy’s hand flex, young Hugh Grant, and the Bridget Jones Diary soundtrack: romcoms.

Reading suggestions that will help you find, appreciate, and dare I say honor, your rage. This edition is full of books about anger, rage, and what this feeling creates in everyday life.