Category Archives: Books
This Is an Uprising
This Is an Uprising examines the history, structure and organization of nonviolent protest. The authors make the case that both structure-based organizations and momentum-driven movements are essential to achieving lasting change. Continue reading
Nonfiction November 2025: New to My TBR
It’s time to wrap up Nonfiction November with one final post about all the books we’ve learned about this year that we hope to read next year. Continue reading
Nonfiction November 2025 Week 4: Diverse Perspectives
Week 4 of Nonfiction November is all about Diverse Perspectives, about seeing the world through someone else’s eyes. Or in my case, through the “eyes” of a river. Continue reading
Nonfiction November 2025 Week 3: Book Pairings
The topic for week 3 of Nonfiction November is Book Pairings: pair up a nonfiction book with a fiction title that are linked together in some way.
This one’s a little tough for me because I don’t read much fiction. But let’s give it a go. Continue reading
Nonfiction November 2025 Week 2: Choosing Nonfiction
It’s Week 2 of Nonfiction November and the topic is Choosing Nonfiction. What topics do we read about, and what have we found reading outside our usual genres? Continue reading
An Evening with Timothy Snyder
I recently attended a public lecture in Seattle given by historian and author Timothy Snyder about his latest book On Freedom. Here’s my summary of his remarks. Continue reading
Nonfiction November 2025 Week 1: Your Year in Nonfiction
It’s time once again for Nonfiction November, an annual celebration by and for nonfiction book bloggers, and anyone else who’d like to drop by. In Week 1 we look back and celebrate the books we’ve read over the last 12 months. Continue reading
Blueprint for Revolution
Are you feeling overwhelmed by rising oppression and autocracy around the world? Whether you’re fighting a dictator or just trying to improve your neighborhood, Blueprint for Revolution is a worthwhile, helpful, even inspiring book. It teaches you how to organize and carry out nonviolent action to achieve political change. Continue reading
The Fifth Season
The Fifth Season takes place on a geologically unstable world where there’s a catastrophic “fifth season” of eruptions and earthquakes every few hundred years. It tells the story of one woman’s quest to find her abducted daughter during an especially destructive season. Rich, vivid and highly inventive. Continue reading
Is a River Alive?
In this fabulously written book, Robert Macfarlane journeys to rivers in three very different landscapes — the cloud-forests of Ecuador, the city of Chennai, India, and the wilderness of northern Quebec — seeking answers to the question are rivers alive and what would it mean if they were? Continue reading
