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Nyle DiMarco loves being Deaf. He is proud of his family, his culture, and his language. But that hasn’t always been so for Deaf people. In this memoir he compares and contrasts the way different generations of his family have […]

This book takes a close look at the American cheese landscape.  The author moves from being an interested civilian to examining the training and life of cheese makers and sellers in the United States.  He even starts attending major cheese […]

Corey Mintz is a former restaurant cook turned restaurant critic/food journalist who lived in Toronto. This book examines many different aspects of the food business to see ways in which it can be made more equitable for the people who […]

I interviewed author Stephanie James about her book Finally A Vegan. This book was a good introduction to what it is like to decide to make a change to your diet and lifestyle. What do you feel is the biggest […]

“Patriarchy exists in the Bible because the Bible was written in a patriarchal world.” You know I’m always up for a good analysis of Christianity. I have opinions. One of my strongest opinions is that Paul was the worst thing […]

I chose this book to read off Kindle Unlimited in order to work on my South of the Equator challenge. No matter how hard I looked at the map while reading this book though, I couldn’t find a loophole that […]

I’ve enjoyed Kal Penn in movies and TV starting with Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle. I knew that he had taken a break from acting to work in the Obama White House but I didn’t know the details […]

I grabbed this audiobook as soon as I saw it on my library’s webpage. It is a fascinating look at the lives of people who grew up in front of millions of people but managed to come out of it […]

This book got me overwhelmed with what could have been. I wanted to vote for Elizabeth Warren. She was out of the Presidential primaries before I voted. In this book she talks about what it is like to pour your […]

This is a book that I had no idea I needed but that may be life changing. I found it while I was browsing the cooking category on Netgalley. I’m having fridge problems. Right now we have three adults in […]

I had never heard of caracaras. I feel like a failure admitting that. How have I missed them? Caracaras live mostly in South America with a few outposts in central Florida and in Texas. This book uses the writings of […]

I found this book while browsing my library’s list of available audiobooks. I was immediately intrigued by the story of an inner-city polo club. Polo is a very expensive sport to play because it requires multiple highly trained horses per […]

I picked up this audiobook purely because it was available at the time I needed a new audiobook through my library. It was fascinating. I didn’t know anything about this history. I didn’t know that Native American prisoners were used […]

I bought this book for my husband because I forced him to watch the first season of Outlander. I got bored with it but he kept watching all the rest. When I saw that two of the stars of Outlander […]

Ever since I’ve moved to this house I’ve been fighting to have a garden. We barely get any yield from the garden here. We don’t have the sunniest yard and we have lots of squirrels and chipmunks. Even with that […]

Authoritarianism appeals, simply, to people who cannot tolerate complexity I would have never known about this book if I wasn’t in a book bingo challenge that asks us to read one of Barack Obama’s recommended reads of 2020. I spent […]

I spend a lot of my time trying to explain cats to people. This continues to baffle me. I think that cats are perfectly straight forward and easy to understand. I’ve been told that this is likely because I resemble […]

When Craig Carlson returned to the U.S. after a semester in France, he realized the thing that he missed most was a huge American breakfast – pancakes, bacon, eggs, and toast. He decided to go back to France and start […]

When I saw the title of this book I laughed and immediately reserved it from the library.   If you grew up in the evangelical church like I did you couldn’t avoid Focus on the Family.  They had programs on Christian […]

I’ve always wanted to learn about wine.  I think the history of different vineyards and wines is fascinating.  That’s why I was interested in listening to Wine Girl.  What does it take to be an expert on wine, especially at […]