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Dr. Jen Gunther, MD — The Menopause Manifesto (Book Review)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | May 18, 2021 | LEARN: Everything Else, RESIST: Feminism

Dr. Jen Gunther, MD is my new chief explainer of women’s health. Her upcoming book, The Menopause Manifesto: Own Your Health with Facts and Feminism is brilliant. It’s an utterly necessary addition to every 35+ woman’s bookshelf. Run, don’t walk, to your nearest...

Amy Stanley — Travel to 1800s Japan in Stranger in the Shogun’s City (Book Review)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Apr 8, 2021 | LEARN: Everything Else

Amy Stanley is a professor and social historian who specializes in early modern Japan. In her 2020 book, Stranger in the Shogun’s City: A Japanese Woman and Her World, Stanley explores the story of a rebellious woman in a strict time. Her subject is Tsuneno, the...

Elizabeth M. Norman — We Band of Angels (Book Review)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Mar 12, 2021 | LEARN: Everything Else

Elizabeth Norman delivers everything I want from narrative nonfiction in her 2000 book We Band of Angels: The Untold Story of American Nurses Trapped on Bataan by the Japanese. It’s engaging and obviously well-researched, including many interviews with the women...

Ed West — Saxons vs. Vikings: A Compact but Extensive History (Book Review)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Mar 4, 2021 | LEARN: Everything Else

Saxons vs. Vikings is the first mini-history book on my shelf from Ed West. And it’s worthy of the subtitle: Alfred the Great and England in the Dark Ages. But it also contains interminable descriptions of battles and considering its brevity that’s saying a lot....

Mudlark by Lara Maiklem — Visit London Throughout the Ages (Book Review)

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

Lara Maiklem introduced me to a whole new world in Mudlark: In Search of London’s Past Along the River Thames. Not that I haven’t been to London. I have. She takes readers specifically to the foreshore of Britain’s iconic Thames, with all of its quirks and...

Hope Jahren — The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here (Book Review)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Feb 4, 2021 | LEARN: Everything Else

Hope Jahren developed the crux of The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where We Go from Here as an introductory class for college students. And fundamentally, it reads this way. There’s a lot of science, some history, a bit of humor, and a smattering of...

Shoshana Zuboff: The Age of Surveillance Capitalism (Book Review)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Dec 18, 2020 | LEARN: Everything Else

Shoshana Zuboff is a professor emeritus at Harvard Business School, among other academic qualifications. And that informs everything about her book The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power. It’s more academic than...

Legal Insights from Ruth Bader Ginsburg in My Own Words (Book Review)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Nov 26, 2020 | LEARN: Everything Else

Reading My Own Words by Ruth Bader Ginsburg is like dipping my toe into the world of judges and legal briefs. It’s a marginally vast compilation of lectures, briefs, interviews, and other writings from the Supreme Court Justice. They begin early in life—with a school...

Rethink the Bins: Your Guide to Smart Recycling and Less Household Waste from Julia L.F. Goldstein (Book Review)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Nov 20, 2020 | LEARN: Everything Else

Julia L.F. Goldstein offers environmental research and information in her upcoming book Rethink the Bins: Your Guide to Smart Recycling and Less Household Waste. Her first book, Material Value covered a lot of manufacturing processes and a little household advice. On...

Colin Dickey—Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places (Book Review)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Nov 5, 2020 | LEARN: Everything Else

From author Colin Dickey, Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places is just the kind of book choice readers make in October. It combines history, travel, architecture, urban legend, and philosophy. But I also have to say it wasn’t nearly as gripping as I...

Robin Wall Kimmerer—Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Book Review)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Sep 14, 2020 | LEARN: Everything Else

From indigenous American botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass is absolutely beautiful in concept and execution. It’s the perfect antidote and balm for the world of 2020. Kimmerer takes indigenous wisdom and marries it with both science and social...

Stacy Schiff: Cleopatra: A Life—Shifting Sands of Power (Book Review)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Aug 5, 2020 | LEARN: Everything Else

Stacy Schiff looks for hidden details about the world’s most famous female monarch in Cleopatra: A Life. And, believe me, those details hide among gobs of information about the men she loved. In order to tell Cleopatra’s life, Schiff really tells the stories of Caesar...

From Rachel Carson: Silent Spring, an Environmental Classic

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Jul 27, 2020 | LEARN: Everything Else

Rachel Carson published Silent Spring in 1962, and it’s an environmental science classic. She was one of the first authors to expose the realities of pesticides to the general public. Now, the world has always had natural pesticides. Sometimes it’s a protective...

In Nomadland from Jessica Bruder the American Dream
goes Houseless (Book Review)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Jul 21, 2020 | LEARN: Everything Else

In Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century Jessica Bruder explores the subculture of houseless individuals. She primarily addresses the decisions that people make in their 50s and 60s and greater. Lacking pensions or savings, they need to take extreme...

Book Review: The Book of Soul by Mark Nepo

by Barbara the Bibliophage | May 30, 2020 | LEARN: Everything Else

Mark Nepo is the only author with a spiritual bent that I consistently read. And his May 2020 book, The Book of Soul: 52 Paths to Living What Matters is no exception. It’s a peaceful, warm, and caring respite from a world on fire. Nepo talks about topics such as how...

Book Review: Palm Beach, Mar-a-Lago, and the Rise of America’s Xanadu by Les Standiford

by Barbara the Bibliophage | May 26, 2020 | LEARN: Everything Else

Les Standiford writes a compelling history of the very rich in South Florida, in his 2019 book Palm Beach, Mar-a-Lago and the Rise of America’s Xanadu. Picking up a book like this is pretty out of character for me. But I lived in Palm Beach County for eight years back...
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