Have you ever tried to ignore the uncomfortable conversations about race that happen around you? Have you ever been angry ...
Native Country of the Heart: A Memoir
Native Country of the Heart was the right book at the right time. It read like a personal letter from Cherríe Moraga to me, ...
Just Mercy
Bryan Stevenson reminds me of Percy Jackson, the boy in those Rick Riordan novels, walking through life trying to fit in like ...
White Rage
Built on a mountain of historical insight and irrefutable evidence, White Rage provides a damning indictment of the United ...
Promise Me Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose
I read a solid amount. Some books are easier than others to review. I try to review the books in the order that I read them. ...
Sucking Up: A Brief Consideration of Sycophancy
Sycophancy (ˈsikəˌfan(t)sē) is the phenomenon known to most of us by alternative words or phrases such as sucking up, ass ...
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
Killers of the Flower Moon details one of the most heinous mass murders in American history that you’ve probably never heard ...
The Storytellers: Veterans and Family Members Write About Military Life
For veterans who have returned from war with PTSD (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder), it’s been found that writing about their ...
Condemned: An Overview of Execution Methods Throughout History
I wasn't going to read this book because the idea of reading about execution methods seemed just a bit too dark (even for ...
Dreamland
Dreamland, by Sam Quinones, is the story of a nation gone berserk, a harrowing, fear-inducing slog through the small towns ...
Dark Money
The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right CITIZENS UNITED v. FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION ...
Dodge City: Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the Wickedest Town in the American West
By junior high, I discovered that at least one research paper per year had become de rigeur and I found myself most ...
Hitler: Ascent, 1889–1939
Volker Ullrich Translated from the German by Jefferson Chase As the son of a WW II veteran who fought in the Battle of the ...
David and Goliath
I don’t read books in any kind of order; I grab whatever piques my interest at the moment, though I do generally keep a ...
The View From Lazy Point
The View From Lazy Point: A Natural Year In An Unnatural World by Carl Safina is a book about love. It is not your typical ...
The End of Your Life Book Club
There is great value in reading a book about books, and The End of Your Life Book Club is no exception. This book is ...
Rabbit Warrior
In an era of tell-all books and reality TV, it’s still unnerving for the average person to reveal too much about themselves, ...
Music and the Armenian Diaspora
Big Band music saved my sanity during an especially stressful time in my life. I was working long hours, seven days a week, ...
Dear Mister Essay Writer Guy
Dinty W. Moore’s new book is a droll, delicious exposé of the inner workings of Moore’s mind. Oh, and it’s a writing tutorial ...
Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets
"I only liked Perestroika when it first started. If someone had told us back then that a KGB lieutenant colonel would end up ...
The Grind: Inside Baseball’s Endless Season
The millstone in The Grind is professional baseball. The grain it grinds are the men and women who either play the game, are ...
Ashley’s War
After I read Ashley’s War by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon, I found myself thinking about these women warriors during my workouts. ...
My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me
When I heard about this book, I made a note of it and carried that note with me for many months. It did not appear on the ...
Big Magic
“I told the universe (and anyone who would listen) that I was committed to living a creative life not in order to save the ...
The Hidden Messages in Water
You would be hard-pressed to find a more beautifully-appointed and significant book than The Hidden Messages in Water. For ...
The Secret of the Mantras
The Secret of the Mantras is an exceptionally-written first-hand account of author Richard Blakely's three-month teacher ...
The Boys in the Boat
The Boys in the Boat shines the light on a dramatic point in American history—the time of Hitler's rise to power in Germany ...
At a Crossroads
This is a humorous diary in comic book form about the frustrations of a college grad who ends up living at home while writing ...
Perfume Dreams
In 2005, the University of Hawaii at Manoa hosted a symposium honoring the forty-year anniversary of the Vietnam War. I went ...
The Way I Was Taught
This novel is a finely drawn, simply worded tale told by the mature spirit of a deeply wounded boy caught between two worlds, ...
Returning Soldiers Speak
Returning Soldiers Speak compiled by Leilani Squire is an anthology of prose and poetry written by veterans with whom Squire ...
The Skin of the Milk
I used to work part time at the Demuth Foundation in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, the home of Charles Demuth, internationally ...
True Compass, A Memoir
I didn’t catch onto Ted Kennedy while he was alive, not like I did his brothers Jack and Bobby. I admired President Kennedy, ...
Rethinking Depression
This is how Rethinking Depression by Dr. Eric Maisel begins: “I have a beautiful story to tell you about how you can take a ...