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.
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.
This book is a tribute to the author’s remarkable mother, as well as to her unshakable faith in God.
This biography of an amazing woman is a must read. My book group and I give is a vigorous 5 stars. Read it!
Want to examine and overcome resistance? Read the one on the left and not the one on the right.
This book is a bit of a moral curveball; some of you will like it, others may not.
These engaging books are great for their invincibly strong female characters, and the fascinatingly thorough world building the author has done.
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.
I really enjoyed this charming, sentimental, well written book. I recommend it and give it five stars.
I give this uplifting little volume, which is full of quotes, by a kindred spirit, a gentle five stars
This book is about you living up to your potential and becoming indispensable for exactly your own unique gifts. Who doesn’t want that?
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.
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.
This book is written by a Jesuit priest who has a ministry among the competing gangs in a ghetto in Los Angeles. He gives them jobs, removes tattoos, and buries them young because of rival gunfire
Beyond family, this book’s themes are rebellion, faith, secrets, love, independence, and the need for extending compassion to everyone for reasons we may never know.
This sweeping saga about Ramses the Great is wonderful. A series of five books, is written by an Egyptology professor. This is blockbuster fiction at its best depicting a laudable leader doing his best for…
This coffee table book is the best on the subject that I have seen. The charts and the color photos are great…
We give this book five stars. Give it a read to find another level of freedom from your own inner gremlins.