Fire Keeper’s Daughter
In my search for more BIPOC lead and written stories I've really expanded my literary genres. Fire Keeper's Daughter is the break out novel of author Angeline Boulley, a member of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians. This book has been one of my more enjoyable reads...
The Only Good Indians
It's been a long time since I've posted a book review here, I tend to blow through them so fast that I often forget to review them or sometimes any strong feelings I might have had. It doesn't help that I've been on a kick reading books on the...
Desert Solitaire and Why I Hate It
Lately in conjunction with out new podcast coming out I have been reading up on some of the big names in naturalism. I’ve read a few modern authors who I some bones to pick with and I’ve been working my way through biographies about and works by more historic...
Practical Magic
For more than two hundred years, the Owens women have been blamed for everything that has gone wrong in their Massachusetts town. Gillian and Sally have endured that fate as well: as children, the sisters were forever outsiders, taunted, talked about, pointed at. Their elderly aunts almost seemed to...
Living the Title: A Life in the Woods
Walden has been one of my hardest reads ever, between the flowery language and my general distaste for Thoreau I must physically try to get into it. I’ve owned a hard cover copy for about fifteen years now and have never finished it until now....