Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Thomas French’s Zoo Story: Life in the Garden of Captives brings the world of zoo keeping to the public in this accessible […]
Read the Book Then See the Movie
Admittedly, I don’t see too many new movies at the theater. I guess I’m too busy reading! But, I recently saw an advertisement for a new […]
Travelling with The Lunatic Express
The title of Carl Hoffman’s The Lunatic Express: Discovering the World via Its Most Dangerous Buses, Boats, Trains, and Planes comes from an African railroad […]
From New York to a Harem
One might assume that Some Girls: My Life in a Harem by Jillian Lauren would be filled with descriptions of unbridled sex and promiscuity. While those […]
Celebrating the Worst of Travel-The Titanic Awards
Just the name of this book gives an inkling that this will not be your normal travel book: The Titanic Awards: Celebrating the Worst of […]
Preserving the Harvest
(Photo by Elina Mark as part of the Estonian Science Photo Competition courtesy of Wikimedia Commons) So — you’ve grown your own produce or been […]
Eating from Your Own Backyard
(Photo of Comella Community Garden in Cleveland by Jeff Schuler, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons) One of the newest movements in cooking/eating is obtaining food locally — purchasing foodstuffs […]
Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand? (Hopefully Not)
Oh, Major Pettigrew! What a fine literary character you are. You are charming, refined, witty, urbane, intelligent and kind. You speak your peace, but always within […]
Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
In the Neighborhood: The Search for Community on an American Street, One Sleepover at a Time by Peter Lovenheim is based on an interesting and unusual […]
