Ashley Holstrom

Ashley Holstrom helps make books at Sourcebooks. She lives near Chicago with her cat named after Hemingway and her bookshelves organized by color. Newsletter: Crooked Reads. Twitter: @alholstrom.

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Sometimes your to-be-read pile becomes an added stressor in life and you just need some tips on how to keep it at bay.

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Cute Pets on Bookstagram

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A memoir from a husband about his wife in a psych ward landed in my lap to teach me all the things my partner and I had been discussing just weeks earlier.

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We all do it, and sometimes, the results are good.

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