The Feminine Mystique (1963) by Betty Friedan has been on my radar for years as a classic feminist tome that I should probably read. However, I was always intimidated by the length. I was also afraid that it would be dated and difficult to read. It wasn’t until I saw it on my 50 Books Every Woman Should Read Before She Turns 40 List that I had the motivation I needed to pick it up. It’s easy for me to take the opportunities I have today for granted. […]
A sweet little book about walking
Walk is a book that attempts to expand the simple act of walking. Written in short vignettes Radford describes everything from breathing, to tempo, to using the senses in a different way while walking. All of this is meant to transform walking from a simple mode of transportation, but rather take advantage of the slowness in walking as a sort of meditative state. Included in the book are loads of exercises that are pretty easy to do, it doesn’t require many tools and while it […]
The Gift that Keeps on Giving
I received From Crook to Cook as part of the Cannonball gift exchange and it combined two of my favorite things- cooking and celebrity memoir- while adding a dose of rapper realness, although infinitely more readable than Gucci Mane, so while I never would have purchased this for myself it was the ideal gift. From Crook to Cook has something for everyone. The cooking purist can revel in Martha Stewart’s foreword, the celebrity voyeur will appreciate Snoop’s candor including snaps from his kitchen and some of his favorite […]
Two different stories that tie into each other
Fur, Feather, Fin All of Us Are Kin and Mapping Sam are two science books that are not dull science. While Fur is more traditional science, it is written so it reads as a story. And Sam is a story that has information in it. Mapping Sam was my favorite out of the two. Joyce Hesselberth creates a story of a cat that puts their family to bed then goes out into the night on their nightly adventures. They explore all sorts of areas, climb […]