Adventures With Alex

Tag: Bill McKibben

  • BR300) “The Flag, The Cross, and The Station Wagon” Book Review

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    The Flag, The Cross, and the Station Wagon: A Graying American Looks Back at His Suburban Boyhood and Wonders What the Hell Happened by Bill McKibben. 4/5 rating. 217 pages. Book #16 of 2023. Read May 14, 2023. This book talks about the three largest areas of change in America in the last 50 years:…

  • BR161) “Falter” Book Review

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    Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out? by Bill McKibben. 3/5 rating. 256 pages. Book #86 of 2020. Read December 18, 2020. This being by Bill McKibben, I was expecting a book about climate change and its life-ending potential. That was only part of the wide array of quite philosophical discussions Bill…