Book Review: Chinese-ish: Home Cooking Not Quite Authentic 100% Delicious, Rosheen Kaul and Joanna Hu Nonfiction: Chinese-ish: Home Cooking Not Quite Authentic 100% Delicious, Rosheen Kaul and Joanna Hu The best cookbooks not only give us terrific tasting recipes, but also share a window into the cultural world of the author. Rosheen Kaul and […]
Book Review: Cold Fish Soup, Adam Farrer Memoir: Cold Fish Soup, Adam Farrer Blog Tour August 12, 2022 When a memoir starts with the narrator contemplating suicide, you would think that it has to get better. After all, it’s fairly obvious he did not go through with it. He finished the book, after […]
Book Review: Sherpa, Pradeep Bashyal and Ankit Babu Adhikari Nonfiction: Sherpa, Pradeep Bashyal and Ankit Babu Adhikari Blog Tour August 8, 2022 Sometimes I play a mental game with myself as I’m reading a book. It has different parameters based on the type of book. For some it’s, “Who would play what role […]
Book Review: Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World’s Largest Owl, Jonathan C. Slaght Nonfiction/Science: Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World’s Largest Owl, Jonathan C. Slaght I might have been vaguely aware of the existence of “fishing owls” before reading this book, […]
Book Review: A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them, Neil Bradbury Nonfiction/Science: A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them, Neil Bradbury Readers and writers often joke about the dangerous Google search history of thriller writers. Explosives, armaments, far off places, creative […]
Book Review: A Clouded Leopard in the Middle of the Road, Darryl Jones Nonfiction: A Clouded Leopard in the Middle of the Road, Darryl Jones When our youngest son started driving on his own he experienced something all too familiar to residents of central Pennsylvania–indeed, residents throughout much of the US and other […]
Book Review: The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation, Rosemary Sullivan Nonfiction/History: The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation, Rosemary Sullivan The mystery of the Frank family’s betrayal has puzzled historians for decades. The story itself is quite well known. The Frank family, a Jewish family in Amsterdam during […]
Book Review: Madwoman, Shara McCallum Poetry Collection: Madwoman, Shara McCallum Shara McCallum is a professor at Penn State University. Named as the university’s 2021-2022 school year “Laureate,” she has been working diligently to raise awareness and appreciation for poetry in our community and our state. Her weekly feature on WPSU radio, Poetry Moment, […]
Book Review: Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants, Robin Wall Kimmerer Nonfiction: Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants, Robin Wall Kimmerer: Centre County (PA) Reads book for 2022 I have seen many reviews of this book that talk about the Native American traditions author […]
