A very dear friend of mine apologized for not having read all Having Written's posts yet. She'd left a few of them flagged, and planned to work through, but hadn't caught up. So I realized: if this person—who is super close to me

Bereft of inspiration for a witty topic, I figured since we're starting a new month, I'll share my March reading list with a quick review of each (9 total). They span a pretty wide range, so there's really something for everyone below! True, last

I never needed convincing that reading Fantasy was for me. If you're a hyperactive, knobby-kneed, glasses-wearing little girl with oceans-deep levels of anxiety, you're apt to sink into worlds full of dragons, faeries, alternative universes, evil magicians, talking unicorns, etc. I will first confess, if this

Dorothy Parker had it right when she said: "I hate writing, I love having written." Truer words have never been spoken, at least for me. We've got some new folks here, so a quick reintroduction is in order: I'm Charlotte Chambers, mom, lawyer, fiction

When I mention I love Horror (whether in film or in books) to someone, they usually react in one of two ways: either with instant, joyous agreement, or they wave their hands, plug their ears, tell me "Oh my god NO!" Very few people say, "you know,

Few things on this Earth drive me to action and rage like hearing a book has been banned. I'm sure the web of psychological reasons for this would take digging up Freud himself to answer, but in any case, one axiom of mine is this: no book should

I just finished 'Victorian Psycho' by Virginia Feito and 'The Haunting of Hill House' (on audiobook) by Shirley Jackson—one was WONDERFUL, one was pretty good. I'll share which book is which in a future edition. 😎 Friends! I'm Charlotte Chambers, mom, lawyer,

Friends! Remember me? Charlotte Chambers, mom, lawyer, person with a reading addiction—took down 95 books in 2024, and I've already got 15 in 2025 under my belt. I'm surprised, and also not, that engagement with this newsletter has dwarfed any of my attempts to post

Hi! I’m Charlotte Chambers—mom, lawyer, and unhinged, escapist reading nut. I read 95 books in 2024, and boy did they run the gamut: from good to bad, the hardest science fiction to the hyper-realistic literary, the ‘buzziest’ books to the barely known. While I do have my favorite