What a month!
Category Archives: Non-fiction
JANUARY READS
Well, we made it through January! I’ve decided each month I’ll do a wrap-up post of all my reads for the month with some quickie reviews.
REVIEW: People Love Dead Jews, Dara Horn
Horn has finally put into words why the glut of books like “The Tattooist of Auschwitz” make me feel so icky.
REVIEW: Out of Office, Anne Helen Petersen & Charlie Warzel
REVIEW So, working from home, huh? Love it or hate it, it’s part of our lives now. Maybe you have a great at-home office setup, or maybe you’re still at the kitchen table. But it’s obvious that COVID-19 is changing the way we work, potentially forever. Anne Helen Petersen, author of the excellent pop-academic workContinue reading “REVIEW: Out of Office, Anne Helen Petersen & Charlie Warzel”
REVIEW: Already Toast: Caregiving and Burnout in America, Kate Washington
“Long Covid” may mean we’ll have a far larger population in need of long-term care–and who’s going to do it?
Books I Enjoyed in 2021 (that make great gifts!)
How’s your Black Friday going?
REVIEW: I Named by Dog Pushkin, Margarita Gokun Silver
It seemed like an appropriate time to read Margarita Gokun Silver’s I Named My Dog Pushkin, a collection of essays exploring her experience coming to the US from the Soviet Union with her family, fleeing the country’s imminent collapse and the negative effects Gorbachev’s perestroika and glasnost policies had on her Soviet Jewish family.
NETGALLEY BOOK REVIEW: Climate Change is Racist by Jeremy Williams
As a white woman in the Global North, I still have a significantly larger carbon footprint than much of the world.
BOOK REVIEW: The Storm is Upon Us by Mike Rothschild
Mike Rothschild is fully aware of the irony of him, of all people, being a reporter working on investigating QAnon.
NETGALLEY BOOK REVIEW: Black and Blue by Parm Sandhu
An important nuance that is often left out of discussions about police brutality and bias is how those within the force can be affected as well.