Amazing book about our relationship with plant medicines. Gives you a completely different perspective.
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Badger AF reviewed This Is Your Mind on Plants by Michael Pollan
Review of 'This Is Your Mind on Plants' on 'Goodreads'
5 stars
Badger AF reviewed Sum of Us by Heather McGhee
Heather McGhee’s specialty is the American economy—and the mystery of why it so often fails …
Review of 'Sum of Us' on 'Goodreads'
5 stars
Extremely illuminating work on America's history of racism and why it's literally the reason we cannot have nice things like universal healthcare, clean water, good schools, and so on.
I've always thought that I was well-informed on matters such as race and class in America. It turns out I was ignorant. This book is definitely a must-read.
Badger AF reviewed The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V. E. Schwab
A Life No One Will Remember. A Story You Will Never Forget.
France, 1714: in …
Review of 'The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
Better than it had to be. Good book that uses a woman's personal story as the history of women writ large. A woman literally makes a Faustian deal for freedom but cannot be remembered or leave any sort sign that she lived her life.
It really brings home the idea that historically - and to this day - women strive for recognition and to leave independent lives.
Badger AF reviewed The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner
Hidden in the depths of eighteenth-century London, a secret apothecary shop caters to an unusual …
Review of 'The Lost Apothecary' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
Interesting book that illustrates the parallels of a modern day woman's choices and that of an older woman living in 18th Century London. Well written and researched, it is a mix of self-discovery and historical fiction.
Badger AF reviewed An Ocean of Minutes: A Novel by Thea Lim
Review of 'An Ocean of Minutes: A Novel' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
This was on my Christmas wish list and I just finished it. It's a great piece of science fiction in that it deploys time travel to talk about the experience of being a refugee. It also points up the good fortune we have in the United States that we chalk up to American Exceptionalism.
In addition to the themes of being a refugee and how economic systems are set up to keep people permanently poor, the author does a great job in exploring the inner lives of our relationships to others and ourselves.
Badger AF reviewed The Bastard Brigade by Sam Kean
Review of 'The Bastard Brigade' on 'Goodreads'
3 stars
I heard an interview with the author on NPR and was riveted. I got it from the library and set about devouring it. There's a lot of interesting background, particularly about radioactive fission, it's history, and the role of Marie Curie's daughter and her husband in further research. There's also some material on Joseph Kennedy (JFK's older brother), a polyglot baseball player, Moe Berg, and the German physicist, Werner Heisenberg.
That said, the author is not able to hold the entire construct together as a compelling story and parts of it feel stitched together. He also writes in a style that tries to be hip but is so anachronistic (given that this takes places in the 1930s-1940s), it ends up being off-putting.