like nobody gets what you’re going through. Books can provide this intense feeling of community and understanding. They can also help you process your own feelings and struggles.
I thought I could get over my aversion to short stories through Yann Martel (Like I did in the beginning of the year with Colum McCann) but I could not. Unlike McCann this book was tough, 4 stories all dealing with death (and not in a fun way!). It was a slog. I will stick wi...
Luckily, the second half is more positive with examples of how food production can be genuinely sustainable, although it feels like it would take a miracle for these methods to be widely adopted across society to make a difference. Monbiot has clearly been deeply immersed in his research on ...
Luckily, the second half is more positive with examples of how food production can be genuinely sustainable, although it feels like it would take a miracle for these methods to be widely adopted across society to make a difference. Monbiot has clearly been deeply immersed in his research on ...
I adored Emira, and Alix made me cringe on so many levels—partly for the mirror reflection personally, partly because I know people just like her. But at the end of the day this book had me examining what it means to be an ally, to be anti-racist, and how my words and actions ha...
What It’s Like to Be a NovelistSometimes the books just don’t work. ByChoire Sicha tributesOct. 25, 2024 Gary Indiana’s Exuberant VenomThe late critic and novelist documented the seedy vanities and sorrows of American life with bitchiness and, sometimes, sympathy. ...
It's a very lively and highly enjoyable way to find out what was happening and what life was like in the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean in the Late Bronze Age. It covers the 15th to the 12th centuries BC and shows us both what we know about it, and how we know it (Egyptian ...
How the Universe Got Its Spots: Diary of a Finite Time in a Finite Space byJanna Levin ***A new edition ofHow the Universe Got Its Spotsby Americal theoretical cosmologist Janna Levin*** Readexpert recommendations “There’s not another book out there like it. It is truly unique. I rea...
see links below). LikeChinese Whispersby Telfer Stokes and Helen Douglas andTheme and Permutationby Marlene MacCallum, Michael Snow’sCover to Coverevokes an urge to articulate what is going, how the bookwork is re-imagining visual narrative, how it is making us look, and how it makes us ...
Reamy Jansen read the new Byatt, THE CHILDREN'S BOOK. He says he thinks “ it's just terrific--one of those works I couldn't wait to get back to. Since it takes place in London and its environs and covers from 1894 to 1917, it was like a journey through my dissertation, a good...