Tag: Books
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BR347) “Poverty, By America” Book Review
Poverty, By America by Matthew Desmond. 2/5 rating. 189 pages. Book #9 of 2024. Finished February 19, 2024. This book talks very openly about poverty: its causes and why it is perpetuated. The topic is very interesting, but I struggled soooo much to get through this book. It just wasn’t written in a very engaging…
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BR339) “Bewilderment” Book Review
Bewilderment by Richard Powers. 3/5 rating. 278 pages. Book #1 of 2024. Read January 5, 2024. This is a novel about an astrobiologist, Theo Byrne and his son, Robin. The book picks up not too long after Theo’s wife dies. She was an environmentalist who was beloved by all. Unfortunately, her remaining family is really…
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BR344) “The Secret Life of Bees” Book Review
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd. 4/5 rating. 302 pages. Book #6 of 2024. Finished January 31, 2024. This is the beautiful tale of a girl named Lily, and her former housekeeper, Rosaleen. Lily has had a hard life, she has been treated terribly by her father for as long as she…
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BR325) “The Creative Act” Book Review
The Creative Act: A Way of Being by Rick Rubin. 3/5 rating. 405 pages. Book #41 of 2023. Read September 24, 2023. This book is all about art: how it’s made, the process, and how to unlock your best artistic work. If you’re not familiar with Rick Rubin, you surely are with some of the…
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BR324) “The Anthropocene Reviewed” Book Review
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet by John Green. 5/5 rating. 274 pages. Book #40 of 2023. Read September 17, 2023. This book is the outgrowth of quite possibly my favorite podcast of all time. After listening to all 37 episodes of John’s podcast (multiple times) where he “reviews different facets of the…
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BR323) “Ever Green” Book Review
Ever Green by John Reid and Thomas Lovejoy. 3/5 rating. 255 pages. Book #39 of 2023. Read September 8, 2023. This book is all about the 5 megaforests on our Earth: why they are important and what can be done to keep them standing. In the past, much of the Earth was covered in forest.…
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BR322) “There’s A Cow in the Road” Book Review
There’s a Cow in the Road by Reeve Lindbergh with pictures by Tracey Campbell Pearson. 4/5 rating. 28 pages. Book #38 of 2023. Read August 28, 2023. This is a premiere children’s book with great pictures, and some fun with a lot of farm animals. I basically can’t say no to free books, so when…
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BR321) “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek” Book Review
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard. 4/5 rating. 271 pages. Book #37 of 2023. Read August 27, 2023. Annie missed the opportunity to give this the subtitle “Meditations on (or maybe in) Nature”. This is an absolutely beautiful book of prose. Reading this is no small undertaking if it is to be actually enjoyed…
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BR320) “Last Child in the Woods” Book Review
Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder by Richard Louv. 3/5 rating. 316 pages. Book #36 of 2023. Read August 23, 2023. Richard talks about our need to get kids back into nature. This book helped launch the recent movement towards more nature, but it was less interesting or impactful than…
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BR319) “The Permaculture Handbook” Book Review
The Permaculture Handbook by Peter Bane. 3/5 rating. 429 pages. Book #35 of 2023. Read August 19, 2023. This is a textbook about some of the practical basics of permaculture on small-scale agriculture. Permaculture is a type of agriculture that revolves around self-reliance and the ability to close waste streams by using these as a…