Books
Overstory (Book Review)
This is an important, urgent, epic book. The writing is stunning, impressive, poetic, and filled with detailed facts. The story is vastly pertinent, and so very needed to avert our imminent and collective eco-suicide.
What’s So Amazing About Grace? (Book Review with Quotes)
Thank goodness grace abounds for everyone, without exception.
Born a Crime (Book Review)
This book is a tribute to the author’s remarkable mother, as well as to her unshakable faith in God.
Gertrude Bell Biography (5 Star Book Review)
This biography of an amazing woman is a must read. My book group and I give is a vigorous 5 stars. Read it!
The War of Art and Do the Work (Book Reviews with Quotes)
Want to examine and overcome resistance? Read the one on the left and not the one on the right.
City of Girls (Book Review)
This book is a bit of a moral curveball; some of you will like it, others may not.
Beka Copper and Alanna Series By Tamora Pierce (Review)
These engaging books are great for their invincibly strong female characters, and the fascinatingly thorough world building the author has done.
Save Me the Plums (Book Review with Recipes)
If you are interested in the food industry, or in publishing, or in memoirs about working lives rather then personal ones, you might want to pick this one up.
Day 27: A Visit to Anne of Green Gables
It was fun to visit Anne of Green Gables’ house here in Prince Edward’s Island. Included in these photos is some of the info I thought interesting about the author L.M. Montgomery, as well as a view of the house tour.
Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance (Book Review)
Want an escape read for this summer that is neither banal, predictable, or mindless? This one could do quite nicely, as it did for me.
A Gentleman in Moscow (Book Review)
I really enjoyed this charming, sentimental, well written book. I recommend it and give it five stars.
Keep Going (Book Review with Quotes)
I give this uplifting little volume, which is full of quotes, by a kindred spirit, a gentle five stars
Linchpin (Book Review)
This book is about you living up to your potential and becoming indispensable for exactly your own unique gifts. Who doesn’t want that?
Paint the Bird (Book Review)
It is not a fun read, and is R-rated in places, but the metaphors ring poetic on the rebound. The main characters are a disillusioned aging African American minister who who picks up an artist at a bar whose HIV positive gay son has just died.
The Stowaway (Book Review)
I enjoyed this true story that reads more like fiction. It is about Byrd’s expedition to Antarctica in the 1920’s, through an obscure main character’s experience.