Lose Yourself in the World of Books
How Empowering Women Changes the World In my new audiobook app, Libro.fm, as a bookseller I get advanced listening copies which is AMAZING! As I will pretty much only listen to nonfiction, I was sorting through my stockpiled titles one night before bed and came across The Moment of Lift which seemed like a good… Continue reading The Moment of Lift by Melinda Gates
Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World In March I attended my first book buyer's retreat and was grumbling about the fact that all the publishers were sending me fiction books - didn't they know that some book buyers really prefer nonfiction? Until, finally, the last book arrived before I made my way up to… Continue reading Range by David Epstein
The True Story of a Serial Killer, the Great London Smog, and the Strangling of a City Picking out books with my nonfiction book club is such fun. Death in the Air is very similar to Devil in the White City, or so I'm told, and it was a good fit for the nonfiction book… Continue reading Death in the Air by Kate Winkler Dawson
Traveling the World to Find the Good Death Another book club pick! I'm really enjoying having a book club again, particularly one that reads exclusively nonfiction! This book was originally recommended by a former book store coworker and I can't wait to tell her what everyone else thought of the book. Synopsis From the Back… Continue reading From Here to Eternity by Caitlin Doughty
The Curious Science of Life in the Void Packing for Mars = Book #3 for my new Nonfiction Book Club! One of the members, not me, is super into books about space and Antarctica so our May read and July reads have been picked by her. And while I am a person who is often… Continue reading Packing for Mars by Mary Roach
No F*cks Given #4 How to Control What You Can and Accept What you Can't So You Can Stop Freaking Out and Get On with Your Life I've always been a worrier, and in my adult life was diagnosed with anxiety and suffer from panic attacks. But, I try to find books to help me… Continue reading Calm the Fuck Down by Sarah Knight
How House Cats Tamed Us and Took Over the World As my own little lion in the living room has been having a tough go of it lately (2 emergency trips to the vet in the past month...) my curiosity got the better of me (as it often does her) and I looked into why… Continue reading The Lion in the Living Room by Abigail Tucker
A Sunfish Sailor, an Island, and the Voyage That Brought a Family Together This weekend my father came out to visit and stay with my husband and I in our new house to help us do some outdoor work. He was the first overnight visitor to the new abode, and he slipped and fell, injuring… Continue reading Second Wind by Nathaniel Philbrick
And Other Arguments for Economic Independence Back in November I joined Libro.fm as they provide advance listening copies (ALCs) for booksellers. Libro.fm is the indie version of Audible with similar terms and selection. I finally put my free membership to good use and listen to Kristen R. Ghodsee's book. Synopsis From the Inside Flap:Unregulated capitalism… Continue reading Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism by Kristen R. Ghodsee
Notes on Growing Up, Getting Older, and Trusting Your Gut I begged and begged our publisher rep for an advance copy of this book because I loved Who Thought This was a Good Idea? And when she didn't send one, I was devastated, but of course, still read it when it arrived on the shelves for sale!… Continue reading So Here’s the Thing… by Alyssa Mastromonaco
Celebration of Books 