Patricia Elzie-Tuttle is a writer, podcaster, librarian, and information fanatic who appreciates potatoes in every single one of their beautiful iterations. Patricia earned a B.A. in Creative Writing and Musical Theatre from the University of Southern California and an MLIS from San Jose State University. Her weekly newsletter, Enthusiastic Encouragement & Dubious Advice offers self-improvement and mental health advice, essays, and resources that pull from her experience as a queer, Black, & Filipina person existing in the world. She is also doing the same on the Enthusiastic Encouragement & Dubious Advice Podcast. More of her written work can also be found in Body Talk: 37 Voices Explore Our Radical Anatomy edited by Kelly Jensen, and, if you’re feeling spicy, in Best Women’s Erotica of the Year, Volume 4 edited by Rachel Kramer Bussel. Patricia has been a Book Riot contributor since 2016 and is currently co-host of the All the Books! podcast and one of the weekly writers of the Read This Book newsletter. She lives in Oakland, CA on unceded Ohlone land with her wife and a positively alarming amount of books. Find her on her Instagram, Bluesky, and LinkTree.
An accessible book to inspire you to get back into your creative habits.
This late-bloomer sapphic romance from the author of THE SUMMER OF JORDI PEREZ is full of comedic mess, steamy scenes, and other surprises.
This delightful read is a guide for anyone who wants to start sending letters, and also for seasoned snail mail senders in need of inspiration.
This book offers ideas for community, hope, and direction, providing guidance and a balm for these uncertain times.
Productivity doesn't have to be a rat race; this book argues that we can often achieve more by doing a lot less.
This is a book I think I'll end up revisiting each season, a meditation on gratitude, the natural world, and shared survival.
This sapphic romance is adorably awkward, very sexy, and features a cast of characters you'll wish you could be friends with.
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