Josna, one of the bloggers I met during A2Z 2025, wrote a book review. The book’s focus is on one family caught up in chaos during the New Orleans storms that devastated the area, but so much more. Josna uses it as a starting point to what’s happened in the world since and what’s going…
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Book Review — Stick Houses: Stories By Matthew L.M. Fletcher (2025)
Stick Houses: Stories By Matthew L.M. Fletcher (2025) Michigan State University Press part of the American Indian Studies Series cover design: Erin Kirk cover art: “Metaphor,” by Jonathan Thunder From the bio on the back cover of the book: Matthew L.M. Fletcher is the Harry Burns Hutchins Collegiate Professor of Law and Professor of American…
Book Review — “Unseen Academicals,” by Terry Pratchett
There are 44 books in the Discworld, put into 8 collections: City Watch, Witches, Unseen University, Death, Industrial Revolution, Gods, Bolt-On, and Younger Readers. Unseen University (UU) is the first collection I started on, with 8 books in it. Unseen Academicals is the last book in the UU collection. This is my favorite in the…
FFF 62– Book Review – “Bittersweetness & Light: A Collection of Stories, Poems, & Art,” by Anne E.G. Nydam
Never forget that there is joy everywhere. I struggled to find the right words for the title of the book review and settled on transformative fairy tales plus. Each story leaves the reader with a seed that can germinate if it is nurtured. It is a magical blend of short stories, poems, and relief block…
Matthew L.M. Fletcher’s new book, “Stick Houses” and Dead Pioneer’s, “Bad Indian”
Read and/or listen to Matthew’s interview on Interlochen Public Radio here My new favorite song:
Book Review — From Under the Truck: A Memoir, by Josh Brolin
Death is a mysterious dream, and dreams are always the most curious sport. — Josh Brolin Small book (226 pages) but dense in material. It hops all over the place with its 2-3 page mini chapters that describe moments in Brolin’s life. This haphazard sharing works in its favor, as being chronological would have made…
Book Review — Surrender: 40 songs, one story, by Bono
image link All music comes from the water… — Bono I notice that I started the book almost a year ago. Surrendering myself to it and savoring it in small tastes was the right choice. Bono covers a lot of turf in this 500+ page autobiography. The title gives you the skeleton Bono uses to…
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