Wants to read Everything Will Swallow You
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Rated Basic Witches: How to Summon Success, Banish Drama, and Raise Hell with Your Coven 6/10
This is like CBT and mindfulness under the label of witchcraft, which is fine, but I don't think I was the right audience. Some of the book will sound very familiar to anyone who has spent time in therapy, and there's value in having that information in one spot. If you're still in your 20s and/or still thinking a lot about "what does everyone else think?" and want to start relinquishing that, you'll get something out of it. If you're almost 40, were hoping to read more history paired with practice, and are not feeling particularly insecure when it comes to some of these topics... well, your mileage may vary.
Rated Caliban’s War 10/10
Still loving this series. My one quibble is, yes, we get it, Bobbie is bigger than the rest of them. No need to mention it every single time she walks into the room.
Wants to read All the Birds in the Sky
Finished reading Amongst Our Weapons
Rated Children of the Land 10/10
What an excellent, honest, and illuminating memoir. Marcelo Hernandez Castillo brings us into his life as an undocumented-then-green-carded immigrant, and what it is like to not fully identify with the country of one's birth, nor of one's residence. The story of his parents' lives, both together and apart, is both heartfelt (without shying away from their flaws) and frustrating — frustrating in the sense that an immigrant's efforts to do things "right" is expensive, difficult, and draining, all for it to be arbitrarily denied because some official just wasn't feeling it that day. The writing is beautiful — unsurprising given Hernandez Castillo's poetry background — and I am so glad I read this.
Rated Readings 4/10
Heady, intellectual ruminations on the state of culture and literature. This is a book for the concept-over-character readers, who like to discuss the meanings of ideas rather than the people who create them.<br><br>My full review can be found on <a href="http://glorifiedloveletters.blogspot.com/2010/08/readings-by-sven-birkerts.html">Glorified Love Letters</a>.
Finished reading Foxglove Summer
Finished reading Aya of Yop City
Wants to read Guards! Guards!
Finished reading Here After: A Memoir
Finished reading Invasive Species: What Everyone Needs to Know
Finished reading Lies Sleeping
Rated Mountainfit: Fjällsommar, Fjällsjälv 8/10
Sethi's book is a beautiful meditation on her travels to Sweden, where she assisted in the tracking of various species of birds. While I'm not much of a nature-book reader, nor do I particularly know anything about birds, I really enjoyed <i>Mountainfit</i>. Sethi's openhearted enthusiasm for what she learns and encounters is contagious, and the way she writes is closer to poetry than journalism. <br><br>Sethi wrote a guest post for my site about the Swedish coffee break called <i>fika</i>, and also gave a recipe for a cinnamon roll-esque recipe, <i>kanelbullar</i>. <a href="http://glorifiedloveletters.blogspot.com/2013/10/guest-post-by-meera-lee-sethi-fika-with.html">Check it out here.</a>
Reviewed Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder Summary & Study Guide
<a href="https://smus.com/books/sophies-world-by-jostein-gaardner">Full review on smus.com</a>
Rated Night Song of the Last Tram: A Glasgow Childhood 8/10
<div>This memoir of a childhood in post-WWII Glasgow was far less "noble poor" than the previous Glasgow memoir I read, though the grim moments were not sensationalized either. The whole book is an interesting set of snapshots from a particular time in history, and it was both useful to me for the reasons that I read it, but also in general a decent book. I'd be interesting in reading more of his work.</div>
Finished reading Midwest Maize: How Corn Shaped the U.S. Heartland
Wants to read Ancestral Night
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Wants to read Long Bright River
Wants to read Don Quixote: By Miguel de Cervantes & Illustrated