It has been a long while since I have read anything by Toni Morrison (i.e., Song of Solomon, read during my freshman year of college, deserves a rereading, as I am sure my 31-year-old self would have much more to say about it than my 18-year-old self). Thus, as I used the NY Times Book …
I have attempted to read books written by politicians before, usually without much success. Even being a politically active and aware person cannot make up for the dryness and empty rhetoric which quickly loses my attention. So, I was not sure what to expect from Barack Obama’s “Dreams from my Father.” As a Hillary voter, …
“When you can eat just about anything nature has to offer,” Michael Pollan writes in The Omnivore’s Dilemma, “deciding what you should eat will inevitably stir anxiety.” Nothing has made me think longer and harder about my food choices than this book by Michael Pollan. Focusing on the U.S.’s “national eating disorder” and attempting to …
I owe you all a proper post (like the one about saunas that I have been writing in my head for the last month). But since there is no time for that now, here is a list of classic books or must-reads or something (even after chasing the links back a few generations, I still …