The Barbizon – Paulina Bren When I picked up this book at the library I wasn’t sure what to expect. I had never heard of…
Tag: non-fiction
Top 5 Non-Fiction (List #2)
As promised here is the 2nd Edition of my Top Non-Fiction from 2023. Last week I put together a list of Herstory, this week the…
2023: Top 5 Non-Fiction (List #1: Herstory)
When I went back and reviewed my reading list from 2023 I just couldn’t limit my non-fiction list to only a Top 5…so I expanded…
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…
Gift List: 5 Non-Fiction Books
We’ve all found ourselves procrastinating gift buying for those ‘hard to buy for’ parents/friends/acquaintances on our list…and by the time we make ourselves actually purchase…
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…
8 Books to Read for Juneteenth
This book list is a place to start if you’re interested in 1) learning more about Juneteenth and it’s significance in American history 2) encountering…
8 Non-Fiction Books About Women, by Women
Women are AMAZING!! Unfortunately, women’s stories and her-story (as opposed to his-tory) have been overlooked, dismissed as unimportant, and all too often simply never written…
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…