Range (Book Review)
This book is highly vindicating to anyone who has a breadth of interests and abilities and has been repeatedly told to narrow their focus and specialize.
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Be Ready When the Luck Happens (Book Review)
This is the story about how following what we love with curiosity and courage, as well as tenacity and hard work, creates our luck.
River of the Gods (Book Review)
This is a dramatic account of two egotistic British explorers’ rivalry in searching for the source of the Nile.
Home Cooking (Book Review)
This is a book of essays, or a memoir of sorts, and not a cookbook, although it does have some recipes.
Sapiens (Book Review)
This book is a major achievement; it is very readable while simultaneously being the work of rare brilliance.
Love Poems from God (Book Review with Sample Poems)
This book of poetry includes twelve worldwide interfaith voices spanning the years from 717 and 1691.
Discover the Power Within You (Book Review with Quotes)
I don’t agree with everything in this book, but it has a more enlightened view of God than many you could read.
Mill Town (Book Review)
This is an important book about environmental destruction; it is an intense but necessary read.
The Woman’s Hour (Book Review)
About the drama around getting the 19th Amendment ratified, this is historical writing at its best.
Two Pastel Landscape Painting Books (Review and Notes)
Here are my notes from two well established landscape painters in pastel.
Braiding Sweetgrass (Book Review)
This mixes Native American values with scientific knowledge for a fantastic weave of environmental hope.
Book of Joy (Book Review)
Here you get to sit in on a conversation of two world spiritual leaders and hear their advice for a joyful future.
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
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.
The Art of Possibility (Book Review)
You’ll be glad to have read it because there will be something there you can immediately utilize for the better. But meanwhile it is engaging and fun!