Using reading to expand my world and read from all categories. I love a well written book, but if the ideas are good and the writing less so, that's ok too.
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Have you ever wondered about the lives of each person you pass on the street, …
Not so much sorrowful, but more about modern feelings we all have about things and what words might fit them.
An interesting mix of things - a charming tale of hoarder Buckminster in Maine and the beauty of his decaying objects, Maine history, mentions of times with Stephen Jay Gould at Harvard and also how one thing can look like another.
Through some 300 objects this book explores contemporary Japanese design: from everyday objects and packaging …
I read most sections of this book twice, I think maybe it is just hard for the Western mind to fully grasp. The examples spanned a wide range of history and definitely helped in understanding.
Relates how the death of the author's photojournalist son at the hands of an angry …
I became interested in this through Dan Eldon's beautiful journals. A little like the Eat, Pray, Love of its time I guess. Always wanted to live in Kenya, the beautiful land of Karen Blixen who stoked my interest. Amusing to think if I had gone I would have been the same age as Amy and Dan and might have even known them. Not a lot to recommend the book, but interesting read of the times and Dan Eldon's life.
I enjoyed it, but feel the need to read it again to mentally make better sense of it.
In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.
In The Democracy of Species Robin Wall …
Collecting things dropped or left behind by others and writing stories about them as a tribute to the fiancée who …
A wondrous, tender novel about a young girl grappling with her role in a tragic loss—and attempting to reshape the …
At a busy festival site on a warm spring night, a baby lies alone in her pram, her mother vanishing …
A queer, mixed race writer working in a largely white, male field, science and conservation journalist Sabrina Imbler has always …
