Hetty: The Genius and Madness of America's First Female Tycoon

book by Charles Slack

What I’ve gathered here are my notes from reading this book—the scenes that resonated, the language that stayed, the feelings that remained after finishing.

author, premise or hype

New-to-me Authors Read in 2025

A Top Ten Tuesday list of new-to-me authors I read in 2025, plus the real question underneath: was I pulled in by the author, the premise, or the hype, and did the book deliver?