Bryson’s Whiny Notes from a Small Island
I’m guess I’m just not a big fan of Bill Bryson’s. I have enjoyed his books, but I am always …
Category Archives: Non-Fiction
Dejunking: The Book that Motivated Me
I’ve been dejunking my house. It is all due to the book For Packrats Only: How to Clean Up, Clear Out, …
I Noticed Seagulls: Birds and Breast Cancer
I can almost always see seagulls flying overhead. They fly over my house, sometimes so high that I can barely …
You May Not Be a Gadget, But I’m Still Not Sure How
Jaron Lanier, in his manifesto titled You Are Not A Gadget (2010), makes the claim that at one time, he …
Reading in the Wild
Into the Wild (1996) by John Krakauer is about Chris McCandless, a recent college grad who decides to live a …
The Mommy Myth
The Mommy Myth: The Idealization of Motherhood and How It Has Undermined Women (2004) by Susan J. Douglas and Meredith …
The Social Construction of Technology: Bicycles, Bakelite, Bulbs, and the Dishwasher
Part of my childhood was spent in a tiny town on a Navajo reservation, where we lived in a trailer. …
An Academic Look at Sex
The title of this book, Last Night in Paradise: Sex and Morals at the Century’s End (1997), is enough to …
Wrapping Up A Week of Non-Fiction
Today is the final post on some of the most compelling and interesting non-fiction books I’ve read. If you’d like …
A Week of Non-Fiction: The Second Installment
Today is the second installment of my week of highlighting non-fiction books that I’ve read and enjoyed, and that I …
