Yesterday I was thinking about some books from my childhood that I might like to re-read now, and realized that they all had quite similar themes.
The Swiss Family Robinson — we owned a copy of this and I must have read it ten times; I really wanted to be shipwrecked with an entire ship full […]
There’s the delicious experience of reading a book about a subject you know you’re going to love. That’s the experience I had reading Stephen Bodio’s Eagle Dreams: Searching for Legends in Wild Mongolia (reviewed on Critter Geek).
But then there’s the experience of reading a book about something you might not normally choose, but […]
When I went to hear Natalie Goldberg speak a couple of weeks ago at Copperfields, they announced another upcoming event…Thomas Moore would be speaking on his new book, A Life at Work: The Joy of Discovering What You Were Born to Do. When a talk with a title like that appears in your life […]
I went to hear Natalie Goldberg speak at our local bookstore today. A few weeks ago I “discovered” her classic book on writing, Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within and have been reading it. I was surprised when my friend TJ told me she was going to be in town promoting […]
This is a copy-and-paste of post I did in June 2005 on another blog that’s going away. Thought it might be worth keeping this one.
I just finished an interesting book, What the Dormouse Said: How the 60s Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry by John Markoff.
There are a number of books that discuss the […]
I’m looking for a great book to take on vacation (less than two weeks away!).
I’ve already ordered Man and His Symbols for my big serious nonfiction vacation book. (The old hardcover, full-color illustrations version, of course). I’m lately very taken by the idea of mandalas and symbols.
But I’m trying to decide on what […]
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