I am happy to have at least one goal for the year that I feel I have some control over. My goal of reading all Jane Austen novels is well within my reach and I anticipate great joy upon reaching the goal. Approaching the reading list chronologically, I began with Sense and Sensibility. Since I […]
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Allegiant by Veronica Roth is the last of the Divergent Trilogy. This series so wants to be the Hunger Games and just like the that series, the first book is always the best. This story is told from a dual perspective, Tris and Tobias, which should have been an indication that something would go wrong
A Girl Named Zippy by Haven Kimmel is next month’s book club pick. It is a memoir of a girl growing up in rural Indiana and is written in a similar tell-all tone that David Sedaris has. I liked that this was a personal tale about a girl who was born within a couple years
Reviewing my list of books that I read this year, I realize that I hadn’t written about two books from my Alaska adventure. The Northern Lights: Secrets of the Aurora Borealis by Syun-Ichi Akasofu, Alaska Geographic Society, was sent to all members of the AAAS expedition that I did in March. This was a required
Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls is David Sedaris’s literary contribution for 2013. The majority of the book is non-fiction accounts of his life, snippets from his childhood, his young adulthood, and very recent times. Topics vary from the serious vein of racism, sexism and drug addiction to the mundane-made-funny vein of colonoscopy, computer theft and
