Book Review Summary: ‘Braiding Sweetgrass’
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Book review of ‘Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel’
Book Review of ‘Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel’ by Carl Safina Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel, by Carl Safina, Henry Holt Co., 2015, 480 p. Many scholars from those enrolled in Middle School General Science to PhD professors have been exposed to and likely held the standard that prohibits anthropomorphizing animal behaviors. Students are …
Swimming with V.S. Naipaul in ‘An Area of Darkness’
I took V.S. Naipaul to the lake with me. I sat in a lawn chair with my feet in the water. The August day was warm, but I had a cool bottle of water and some cherries, cold and hard from the cooler. I wanted to relax, but my head was spinning. Naipaul writes with …
Book review ‘Lab Girl’ by Hope Jahren
‘Lab Girl,’ by Hope Jahren, Vintage, paperback-2017, 282 pages. One might imagine that no one really needs an autobiography from a bipolar plant geobiologist: one would be mistaken. Hope Jahren’s memoir begins in her father’s lab and continues with a stoic walk in small town Minnesota. As her foot hits the icy pavement, a world …