Lemonada. What if the life you built online suddenly became real and completely out of your control?

In Caro Claire Burke's debut novel yesteryear, Natalie is a tradwife influencer with a picture-perfect

life and millions of followers.

Until she wakes up in 1855 and everything she's been romanticizing becomes something she has to survive.

Carol Claire Burke is also the co-host of the podcast, Diabolical Lies,

and readers are calling this book impossible to put down with a twist that's completely off the rails in the best way.

Yesteryear is available now in print, audio, and e-book.

I'm Gretchen Rubin, and this is A Little Happier.

One of my favorite things about reading a book is when it contains a reference to something,

a novel, a song, a TV show, an anecdote

that leads me to something else. For instance, as a child, in reading the brilliant novels

for children by Edward Eager, written between 1954 and 1962, I discovered the equally

brilliant children's books by E. Nesbit, which were written in the early

1900s. In fact, Edward Eager quite deliberately included allusions to Nesbitt's books to help his readers

discover her work because he had been so inspired by her novels. He wrote of E. Nesbitt's influence,

I am always careful to acknowledge this indebtedness in each of my stories, so that any child who likes my books and doesn't know hers may be led back to the master of us all.

Through reading Thomas Merton's acclaimed spiritual memoir at the Seven-Story Mountain, I discovered the spiritual

memoir of Story of a Soul by St. Therese, a book that I have read and reread many times,

and which led me to a profound and lasting interest in St. Therese. Often, one book leads to another

book, but a book can lead to other places as well.

For instance, a few years ago, I read the outstanding novel Martyr by Kavei Akbar.

I highly recommend this book.

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