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Surviving Storms — Mark Nepo (Book Review)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Sep 3, 2022 | LEARN: Everything Else

Surviving Storms: Finding the Strength to Meet Adversity is Mark Nepo’s latest book of essays. His approach is both as a spiritual teacher and as a student of life. Nepo is also a poet and philosopher. So, when you blend all these elements, you sense his writing...

Donna Jackson Nakazawa — Girls on the Brink (Book Review)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Aug 4, 2022 | LEARN: Everything Else

Donna Jackson Nakazawa does it again with her upcoming book, Girls on the Brink: Helping Our Daughters Thrive in an Era of Increased Anxiety, Depression, and Social Media. She blends real-life situations with scientific knowledge and analysis. And concluding the book...

Adam Grant — Think Again (Book Review)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Jun 30, 2022 | LEARN: Everything Else

Adam Grant engaged my intellect and curiosity in his 2021 book, Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know. Plus, I immediately told friends and acquaintances about it. In fact, I didn’t wait until I finished the book. It’s timely and relevant to people’s...

Cultish — Amanda Montell (Book Review)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | May 22, 2022 | LEARN: Everything Else

Amanda Montell explores the unique ways cults use language to control their followers in her 2021 book Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism. As you’d expect, she includes the phenomenon of some well-known quasi-religious organizations like Scientology and Jim Jones’...

Genealogy — Personal, Societal, and Professional Perspectives

by Barbara the Bibliophage | May 10, 2022 | LEARN: Everything Else

I recently read a few books that examine our individual and collective fascination with genealogy. At our house, we talk often about our ancestors and what we know or don’t know. Our son decided yesterday to start filming his dad when these discussions happen. Because...

Stolen Focus by Johann Hari (Book Review)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | May 1, 2022 | LEARN: Everything Else

I read Johann Hari’s new book, Stolen Focus: Why You Can’t Pay Attention—And How to Think Deeply Again, to improve my focus. I thought Hari would primarily provide specific, actionable strategies. While Stolen Focus does some of that, Hari predominately offers deeper...

Libby Copeland — The Lost Family (Book Review)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Mar 19, 2022 | LEARN: Everything Else

Libby Copeland considers all the ways consumer DNA testing has changed our lives in The Lost Family: How DNA Testing is Uncovering Secrets, Reuniting Relatives, and Upending Who We Are. She interviews scientists, career genealogists, ethicists, and lots of regular...

Marc Petitjean — The Heart: Frida Kahlo in Paris (Book Review)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Jan 15, 2022 | LEARN: Everything Else

Marc Petitjean separates fact from family legend in his biography, The Heart: Frida Kahlo in Paris. He explores the veracity of the family stories about his father’s affair with Kahlo in 1939. She gave the elder Petitjean, Michel, a painting she titled The Heart as a...

Kevin Cook – The Burning Blue (Book Review)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Sep 15, 2021 | LEARN: Everything Else

Kevin Cook does the narrative nonfiction genre proud in The Burning Blue: The Untold Story of Christa McAuliffe and NASA’s Challenger Disaster. His story of America’s Teacher in Space and the whole Challenger story kept me absorbed on every page. Once I started,...

Douglas Abrams & Jane Goodall — The Book of Hope (Book Review)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Sep 7, 2021 | LEARN: Everything Else

Douglas Abrams teams up with Jane Goodall to co-create The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times. It’s a record of their conversations about hope, and focuses primarily on Goodall’s four reasons to be hopeful. Abrams is a skilled interviewer and captures the...

Garrett Graff — The Only Plane in the Sky (Book Review)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Sep 1, 2021 | LEARN: Everything Else

Garrett M. Graff created a heart-wrenching book with The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11. Since the author intended this to be an oral history, I listened to the audiobook which has a large cast of narrators. About five minutes in, during one of the...

Sasha Geffen — Glitter Up the Dark (Book Review)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Aug 19, 2021 | LEARN: Everything Else

Sasha Geffen writes a captivating musical and social history in Glitter Up the Dark: How Pop Music Broke the Binary. Not only do they* capture the magic of music through the decades, they also explain how a plethora of performers broke through the limitations of...

Nancy Marie Brown — The Real Valkyrie (Book Review)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Aug 5, 2021 | LEARN: Everything Else

Nancy Marie Brown combines history and imagination in her upcoming book, The Real Valkyrie: The Hidden History of Viking Warrior Women. If you follow me, you know that I love books about Vikings and Norse people. And this is the best I’ve ever read. It covers a wide...

Arthur Herman — The Viking Heart (Book Review)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Jul 11, 2021 | LEARN: Everything Else

Arthur Herman explores Scandinavian culture, history, and its worldwide effects in The Viking Heart: How Scandinavians Conquered the World. As the publisher puts it, he “melds a compelling historical narrative with cutting-edge archaeological and DNA research to trace...

From The Minimalists — Love People Use Things (Book Review)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Jul 2, 2021 | LEARN: Everything Else

A new book from podcasters The Minimalists is almost here. Called Love People Use Things: Because the Opposite Never Works, it’s about relationships. And about why our relationship with stuff gets in the way of developing meaningful relationships with people. Written...

Ben Blatt — Nabokov’s Favorite Word is Mauve (Book Review)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Jun 25, 2021 | LEARN: Everything Else

Ben Blatt is a numbers guy investigating words in Nabokov’s Favorite Word Is Mauve: What the Numbers Reveal About the Classics, Bestsellers, and Our Own Writing. Experts hotly debate the intersection of the two, especially whether such a thing is valid. Blatt...
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