Where is your nonfiction section please.
For some reason this summer, I was weirdly drawn to ocean and/or whale-related nonfiction. Topics that I always appreciate learning something about, but I'm not sure why I felt such a pull now. Maybe the yearning to be elsewhere and if that elsewhere is as far-feeling as possible from the world as we know it,... Continue Reading →
Book review: Erosion, by Terry Tempest Williams (Amazon / Book Depository) If the world is torn to pieces, I want to see what story I can find in fragmentation. Renowned nature writer and conservationist Terry Tempest Williams' latest comprises essays written between 2012 and 2019, "a seven-year cycle exploring the idea of erosion; the erosion... Continue Reading →
Book review: Underland, by Robert Macfarlane (Amazon / Book Depository) What happened here? The mouth of the chasm says nothing. The trees say nothing. Leaning over the edge of the sinkhole, I can see only darkness beneath me. British author Robert Macfarlane's Underland is a difficult book to describe or do justice to. It's more of a... Continue Reading →
I made a goal for myself this year to read fewer advance copies and more of what I've really been wanting to read myself. I love reading advances, don't get me wrong, but they do sometimes keep me from getting to something I'd personally been in the mood for. It sounds odd, but it can... Continue Reading →
Book review: American Wolf, by Nate Blakeslee (Amazon / Book Depository) Maybe you've seen this video that made the social media rounds awhile back, about the effects wolf reintroduction has had on Yellowstone National Park: It's a beautiful, almost heartwarming story of humans helping nature to right itself (after humans messed it up in the first... Continue Reading →
Book review: Upstream, by Mary Oliver (Amazon / Book Depository) 'Come with me into the field of sunflowers' is a better line than anything you will find here, and the sunflowers themselves far more wonderful than any words about them. Quoting herself, renowned and much-loved poet Mary Oliver opens this collection of essays about nature and our... Continue Reading →
Book review: Great Soul of Siberia, by Sooyong Park (Amazon / Book Depository) Back in 2010, I read a book so good that even while I was reading it I knew it was going to be hard to top. It was around the time I was shifting to reading primarily nonfiction, and John Vaillant's The Tiger was influential in... Continue Reading →
What's Nonfiction? 