Reading for sanity, solace, meaning, meandering. Partial to mountains and desert, climate themes, balancing the heavy with the light.
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An astonishing, vital book about Antarctica, climate change, and motherhood from the author of Rising, …
We get an account of a groundbreaking scientific expedition to Antarctica from a writer grappling with understanding climate change while yearning for motherhood, and determined to break the Antarctic adventure tale mold by including as many perspectives as she can.
An astonishing, vital book about Antarctica, climate change, and motherhood from the author of Rising, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize …
Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, Demon Copperhead is the story of a boy born to a teenaged single …
Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, Demon Copperhead is the story of a boy …
I grabbed this without much consideration and got embarrassingly far through it before I got the Dickens heritage. If I read David Copperfield I've forgotten it, but if it explores real societal issues through the eyes of kids as well as this story does, it would be worth a comparison to get a sense of how the problems have evolved. It's not just problems though, they are lived by good characters.
THE HELL SEASON Thomas Wright awakens to discover that his family has vanished. None of …
I get the metaphorical value of power over geological processes, but it feels somehow ungainly so far. Hoping the characters win me over.
Alexander and his co-authors present us with over two hundred (roughly 250) "patterns" that they …
Multiple recommendations, most recent from my cousin Anneke.
"A young Swedish boy finds himself in penniless and alone in California. He travels East …
Pretty good for an airport pick. As a lover of walking, deserts, and mountains I wanted more detail of travel challenges and geography. The theme of aloneness was good and reminded me a little of Lauren Groff’s “The Vaster Wilds”.
"A young Swedish boy finds himself in penniless and alone in California. He travels East in search of his brother, …
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue is a 2020 fantasy fiction standalone novel written by …
recommended by Jason Lemieux
"A young Swedish boy finds himself in penniless and alone in California. He travels East …
Picked at the Denver airport Tattered cover
From award-winning journalist Kara Swisher comes a witty, scathing, but fair accounting of the tech …
I’m surprised to discover Kara Swisher now, a sign of how little I partake of media coverage of the world I live and work in. This book gave me new perspective on my own lived experience of the tech world. It’s clearly through a very Swisher-colored lens, but I enjoy her swagger and could learn from her example to act on my assessments, imperfect as they may be.
From award-winning journalist Kara Swisher comes a witty, scathing, but fair accounting of the tech industry and its founders who …
Eccentric genius Adam Bosch has cracked the multiverse and discovered a way to travel to …
This is a character driven story in a dystopian, desert inspired multiverse. I liked the characters and it holds together well for the most part. For a multiverse premise the world(s) felt too small to me, which serves the story but maybe diminishes the mood. I really like the mysterious liminal space as a character in itself, which tempts me to continue the series.
Eccentric genius Adam Bosch has cracked the multiverse and discovered a way to travel to parallel Earths. There's just one …
Millennia ago, Ginny’s family farm was all grass and rock and wild horses. A thousand …
Heard a nice review on Postcards from the Wind.
