Book Review: Dinner with Edward
This sweet, yummy book is a great way to spent an evening. It is a short, loving memoir of the transformative effect their dinners together has on both of them.
Book Reviews
Book Review: Soul of an Octopus
This book challenges our material assumptions about consciousness and the sources of intelligence in an effective and captivating way.
Book Review: One Thousand Gifts
…her life was turned upside down and burst open by finding gratitude to God for the slightest little gifts all around her.
Book Review: The Last Runaway
This historical novel is set in Ohio and is about a Quaker girl from England who who becomes involved in the underground railroad. She wrestles with her conscience and her community
Book Review: The Nightingale
This moving story will hold you until the last word and beyond. Read it if you need to remember not to take anything for granted.
Book Review: Pollan Family Table Cookbook
I spent some time over the weekend reading this cookbook, and trying the recipes, and got some great ideas from it. The recipes are easy to follow, without hard to find ingredients, and taste good.
Book Review: House of Thieves
Full of high society on the one hand, and squalor, poverty, and depravity on the other, it is this high contrast is that makes this book interesting.
Book Review: Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
This slim volume is wonderful. I give it five stars. It is concise and understandable, relevant and expansive.
Book Review: Abundance: The Future is Better Than You Think
Here is a vision of the future where everyone can win. You might be as glad as I was to read about that right now. Let’s actively be part of the solution, instead of discounting about our possible demise.
Book Review: Gilead (& Quote About the Fifth Commandment)
This work of fiction requires some quiet, as well a slow pace, to take it in.
Book Review: Circling the Sun
This book is written about the real and indomitable Beryl Markham, the first woman who flew across the Atlantic. She grew up in colonial Africa, running wild on her father’s horse farm, abandoned by her mother, and friends with the colorful Kipsigis tribe.
Book Review: Euphoria
If you love anthropology, you might find this book worth your time. For me, I give it only three stars.
Book Review: Delancey
If you want to read a real life story of the struggle behind realizing a dream, you might enjoy this book.
Book Review: The Forest Lover
This book is historical fiction of Emily Carr, a remarkable woman painter, who despite her confining Victorian upbringing traveled to Paris to study with Post Impressionists and returned to her cherished northwest Canada to paint the forests and native artifacts
Book Review: Little Paris Bookshop
The main character is a “literary apothecary, or a “book epicure” that can discern which book is exactly the one each person should read to improve, heal, or grow in the way that they need to.
Book Review: Under the Wide and Starry Sky
This historical fiction is about Robert Louis Stevenson and his wife. Split almost equally before and after the time of their marriage, it was a pleasure to read a love story that did not end at a wedding, but carried forth into all the complications of marriage and esteemed career.
Two Terrific Vegan Cookbooks
I’m getting all sorts of new ideas, which I’ve found both delicious and creatively exciting, from these two cookbooks