The Women I Think About at Night: Traveling the Paths of my HeroesBy Mia Kankimäki, translated from the Finnish by Douglas RobinsonMemoir/History416 pagesPublished November 10, 2020, by Simon & Schuster Forty-something Mia Kankimäki doesn't have children or a fulfilling job. But she does have a collection of what she calls her 'Night Women', women from … Continue reading Book Review: The Women I Think About at Night
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Goodreads Monday: The Ravenmaster
Goodreads Monday is a weekly meme where we randomly select a book from our Goodreads To Be Read list and share it with the world. It’s been hosted by Lauren’s Page Turners, but I’m not sure if that blog is active anymore. Please enjoy this preview of what I want to read in the future! … Continue reading Goodreads Monday: The Ravenmaster
Goodreads Monday: I’m Writing You From Tehran
Goodreads Monday is a weekly meme where we randomly select a book from our Goodreads To Be Read list and share it with the world. It’s been hosted by Lauren’s Page Turners, but I’m not sure if that blog is active anymore. Please enjoy this preview of what I want to read in the future! … Continue reading Goodreads Monday: I’m Writing You From Tehran
Book Review: Epic Solitude
Epic Solitude: A Story of Survival and a Quest for Meaning in the Far North by Katherine Keith Memoir 280 pages Expected publication: February 4, 2020, by Blackstone Publishing Memoirs about women going out into the world to find themselves or their own truths have become a veritable cottage industry since the success of … Continue reading Book Review: Epic Solitude
Book Review: The Twenty-Ninth Day
The Twenty-Ninth Day: Surviving a Grizzly Attack in the Canadian Tundra By Alex Messenger Memoir 272 pages Expected publication date: November 12, 2019, by Blackstone Publishing At seventeen, Alex Messenger was already an accomplished wilderness traveler. He had hiked and canoed through forests and mountains across the northern United States and into Canada, and so … Continue reading Book Review: The Twenty-Ninth Day
Book Review: Sorry I’m Late, I Didn’t Want to Come
Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come: An Introvert's Year of Living Dangerously by Jessica Pan 368 pages Memoir Expected publication date: May 28, 2019, by Andrews McMeel Publishing Though she lived in London, a city filled with people and things to do, journalist, American ex-pat, and "shintrovert" Jessica Pan found herself sitting … Continue reading Book Review: Sorry I’m Late, I Didn’t Want to Come
Book Review: Reading Through the Night
Reading Through the Night by Jane Tompkins Memoir 248 pages University of Virginia Press Jane Tompkins was a respected professor of literature and award-winning author until she developed a debilitating chronic illness that sapped her energy, leaving her unable to travel, work, or even-- on her bad days-- write. With little choice but to stay … Continue reading Book Review: Reading Through the Night
Book Review: Educated
Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover Memoir 334 pages Published February, 2018 by Random House From Goodreads: An unforgettable memoir in the tradition of The Glass Castle about a young girl who, kept out of school, leaves her survivalist family and goes on to earn a PhD from Cambridge University Tara Westover was 17 the … Continue reading Book Review: Educated
Review: Bringing up Bebe
Bringing Up Bébé by Pamela Druckerman 304 pages Nonfiction/Memoir Published 20112 From Goodreads: The secret behind France's astonishingly well-behaved children. When American journalist Pamela Druckerman has a baby in Paris, she doesn't aspire to become a "French parent." French parenting isn't a known thing, like French fashion or French cheese. Even French parents themselves insist … Continue reading Review: Bringing up Bebe
Sunday Sum-Up
Around the first of June, I took my car to the shop for a repair. Some sort of bearing in a wheel housing was going out and making a horrendous noise, so I took it in for a multi-hour repair. The noise went away, and everything was fine. Last weekend, though, something strange started happening … Continue reading Sunday Sum-Up
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