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Free to Learn by Peter Gray

March 4, 2015

That blurb makes the book sound far, far more “anti-school” than it actually feels. Even though Free to Learn presents very unconventional ideas about education, it…

Mozart in the Jungle by Blair Tindall

January 26, 2015

I watched the pilot episode of Mozart in the Jungle on Amazon. I figured I’d read the memoir of the same title, which the…

Dirty Chick by Antonia Murphy

January 22, 2015

Antonia Murphy and her family move from San Francisco to New Zealand expecting a quiet, peaceful life in the country where their children can…

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami

December 6, 2014

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running is a brief memoir by Haruki Murakami, written in pieces between 2005-2006. Whenever something came to…

The Republic of Imagination by Azar Nafisi

November 10, 2014

In The Republic of Imagination, Nafisi is bold about asking and tackling some tough questions. Are the humanities important to us? If so, is that…

Every Valley: Advent with the Scriptures of Handel’s Messiah

November 7, 2014

If you read one of the forty (brief) chapters of Every Valley each day beginning in Advent, it will take you through the twelfth day…

Capturing Music by Thomas Forrest Kelly

November 3, 2014

Capturing Music is an “entertaining history of how musicians learned to record music for all time, filled with art that sings.” This is the…

Girl Scouts Founder’s Day: Books for Mom & Daughter

October 30, 2014

October 31 is full of celebration! It’s Halloween. It’s Reformation Day. And for the Girl Scouts of the USA, it’s Founder’s Day, the day…

Fluent Forever by Gabriel Wyner

October 1, 2014

I have a working knowledge of Italian, enough that I can read and write it, and I do fairly well when listening, too. But…

Never Pray Again by Aric Clark, Doug Hagler, and Nick Larson

September 28, 2014

I heard about Never Pray Again from a friend and was completely intrigued. I visited the authors’ website, Two Friars and a Fool, and read, listened,…

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