☀️ Summer Reading with Card Carrying: Chemistry, Curiosity & Unruly Desire

This summer, I’m leaning into stories that stir something. That peel the surface back. That dare to ask: What if we don’t play by the rules—of gender, of grief, of gravity itself?

Thanks to the Card Carrying Feminist Bookstore’s Paperback Book Club, I’ve got two books that do just that:

📚 Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus

📚 All Fours by Miranda July

Each monthly selection arrives with that signature CC flair: a beautiful paperback, a feminist sticker (yes please), and the thrill of opening a book I might not have chosen on my own—but somehow needed.

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Lessons in Chemistry

– Bonnie Garmus

This one had me from the first page. Lessons in Chemistry is the story of Elizabeth Zott—brilliant, stubborn, underestimated. She’s a chemist in the 1960s who accidentally becomes a TV cooking show host—and uses it as a subversive platform to teach science (and self-respect) to housewives across America.

What struck me wasn’t just the sharp humor or the feminist rage (though, yes), but how the body and mind are treated as sites of resistance. Zott is both a scientist and a mother, a grief-split woman and a relentless truth-teller.

It’s funny. It’s sad. It made me want to cook with a beaker set.

It reminded me that speaking plainly, even in a system built to silence you, is radical.

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All Fours

– Miranda July

I’ve always been drawn to the weird ones—the tender oddballs, the self-split narrators who don’t quite belong. Miranda July’s latest novel, All Fours, is a sensual, strange, and beautifully uncomfortable ride.

A woman drives across the country, alone. She stops in a town she doesn’t know, to chase a feeling she can’t explain. What follows is a messy unraveling of self, identity, art, and desire. It’s not tidy. It’s not linear. And that’s the point.

This book is for anyone who has ever paused their life mid-sentence and whispered: What if I don’t go back?

📦 Why I Love the Paperback Book Club

The Card Carrying Feminist Bookstore isn’t just a shop—it’s a heartbeat. A gathering place. A space to be held and challenged. Their book club brings that energy into your mailbox each month—plus a little sticker surprise that always makes me smile.

So if you’re looking for summer reads that challenge norms, inspire new questions, and feel like a conversation between you and the universe, these two are it.

🌞 What’s on your summer reading list?

Let’s talk books, bodies, and becoming.

With love,

Laura Resurreccion

Artist, Writer, Mystic, Paperback Lover

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