The war, death and human atrocities continue in Gaza. A bombardment that began on October 7th, 2023 rages on with a constantly rising death toll…
Category: Non-Fiction
Book Review: ‘Remembering Shanghai’
Remembering Shanghai: A Memoir of Socialites, Scholars, and Scoundrels – Isabel Sun Chao and Claire Chao Memoir is not my usual go-to genre and oftentimes…
Palestine Peace not Apartheid by Jimmy Carter
This post is a long time coming. I finished “Palestine Peace not Apartheid” in late October and just haven’t been able to bring myself to…
The Last American Man
– It’s Okay It’s not every day a skinny little, 271 page book leaves you deeply conflicted and wrestling both with what you enjoyed about…
The Woman They Could Not Silence
The Woman They Could Not Silence – Kate Moore As someone who cannot stop recommending ‘The Radium Girls’ to absolutely everyone who asks me for…
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers – Mary Roach This book may have been the one book I was looking most forward to reading…
We Are Each Other’s Harvest by Natalie Baszile
– It Completes Me! I would never have expected a book written about farming to be such a page turner, but Natalie Baszile’s research, writing…
Ducks by Kate Beaton
– Worth It! Graphic novels have come a long way in the last decade and Kate Beaton’s autobiographical “Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands”…
Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World
[urs 5] – It Completes Me! Well in this case the book less completes me then it destroys me in the best possible sense. Books…
Life in the City of Dirty Water: A Memoir of Healing
– It’s Okay There are books in this world that you read, not because it is the greatest story ever told, or the best writing…