Juliana Pignataro

2 weeks ago | readersblock.substack.com | Juliana Pignataro

By Jesse Q. SutantoRead it if you’re into: Uplifting murder mysteries; A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman; dramediesThanks for reading ReadersBlock! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. An elderly Asian widow running a dusty old teashop in San Francisco’s Chinatown has but a single customer for whom she opens her store each and every day.

Jan 10, 2025 | readersblock.substack.com | Juliana Pignataro

My unlikely, life-changing, standout out of the year. Who would have thought? This Pulitzer Prize-winning doorstop, clocking in at over 1,000 pages, was part of my (slow) mission to read a biography of every president. I’d thought little about Harry Truman — man or president — before picking it up. Like all good biographies, it’s a study of a life but also a colorful history of a complex time. More than anything, I was blown away by Truman as a man (I cried at the end).

Sep 1, 2024 | readersblock.substack.com | Tina Brown |Kate Brower |Juliana Pignataro

by Tina BrownLongtime royals chronicler and Vanity Fair Editor in Chief Tina Brown has produced the authoritative, definitive history of Britain’s modern royal family — or at least as close to it as we’re likely to get. Thanks for reading ReadersBlock! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.

Aug 2, 2024 | readersblock.substack.com | Juliana Pignataro

July Reads: Liz Moore's latest, Rudy Giuliani's downfallreadersblock.substack.com

Aug 2, 2024 | readersblock.substack.com | Liz Moore |Andrew Kirtzman |Juliana Pignataro

by Liz MooreRead it if you’re into: Literary fiction, female-centric stories, narratives of class divideIn the early 1960s, a young boy vanishes from the summer camp built on his wealthy family’s vast Adirondack property. Flash forward to 1975, and the boy’s sister (who may or may not have been born solely as a replacement for her lost brother), goes missing from her bunk at the very same camp in the middle of the night.