About
January 1, 0001 · 2 minutes read
Hey, I’m Danielle. The Part Everyone Skips is my personal book review blog and reading journal where I share my book reviews, recommendations, thoughts and ideas.
I started it because reading has always been how I think, how I orient myself, and how I return to myself when everything feels too loud. Not as a productivity system. Not as a list of “must-reads.” As a practice.
What you’ll find here are notes, passages, reflections, and traces of books that stayed with me, reviews, lists of books I want and am curious about. Sometimes that looks like a quote I couldn’t let go of. Sometimes a short response. Sometimes a longer meditation that started as a margin note and grew legs.
I’m interested in what reading does to us, how it shapes attention, how it steadies us, how it opens something back up.
I’m also currently building a reading app I’ve wished existed for 15 years. It’s designed for readers who treat their reading data as self-knowledge: whether you’re tracking tropes across dozens of romance novels, managing research sources, watching your progress through epic series, or just curious about your own patterns without the friction of constant input.
If you’re here, you’re probably someone who reads the way I do: not exclusively for escaping the world, but also to sometimes meet it in new ways?
Welcome.
New Books I’m Looking Foward To This Year (First Half of 2026)
Books that arrive already humming with questions: about how we live, what we inherit, what we automate, what we grieve, and what we still hope books can do for us when the news is unbearable and the group chat is tired.
Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York
YOU CAN'T IMAGINE how great I felt once I made the decision. I know it's strange, but I felt healthy. You don't know what a relief it is to finally ignore Dr. Stillman and his water diet, to say good-bye to Dr. Atkins and his low carbohydrates. Now I didn't even have to consider getting those pregnant women's urine shots. True. They help you lose weight. Yes, sir, the first thing I did when I made the decision to kill myself was to stop dieting. Let them dig a wider hole.
Margo's Got Money Problems by Rufi Thorpe
And we shook on it there under the glowing red hat of the Arby's, with Ric Flair and the Virgin Mary smiling down on us, willing the story to go on, to never end, to start over again, one adventure leading to the next, and we would never die, and we'd be young forever, and we would scream to the crowd, 'Look at me! Look at the beautiful, insane things I can do with my body! Look at me! Love me!' Because that's all art is, in the end.