Robin Diangelo lecturing, author of White Fragility: Why It’s so Hard for White People to Talk About Racism, book review
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The Art of Writing: Four Principles for Great Writing That Everyone Needs to Know by Peter Yang, a Book Review
For the writer, there is no better way to spend a couple of hours than to read about how to write better, right? How about picking up The Art of Writing: Four Principles for Great Writing That Everyone Needs to Know by Peter Yang? A short, quick read summarizing the basic elements of good writing,…
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Book Review: The Courage Map: 13 Principles to Living Boldly by Franziska Iseli
Unique and inspiring, The Courage Map: 13 Principles to Living Boldly by Franziska Iseli demonstrates how to live your best life by stepping out in courage despite the fear you may face. Most people stay locked in their fear. How many times have you not pursued your passions because you were afraid? How many…
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Book Review: I am Enough: Mark Your Mirror and Change Your Life by Marissa Peer
A quick, easy but profound read, I am Enough: Mark Your Mirror and Change Your Life by Marissa Peer is a book for those who are willing to heal from their childhood emotional wounds and want a simple, very effective solution with dramatic change. Marissa’s book will help you realize what is holding you back…
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Book Review: Sapiens: A Brief History of Mankind by Yuval Noah Harari
Truly fascinating and unique, Sapiens: A brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari, is a detailed, engaging summary of the history of human beings. Harari demonstrates how humans are the only species willing and able to believe what only exists in the imagination such as money, human rights, religion, and states. He brilliantly weaves…
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Book Review: The End of Ice: Bearing Witness and Finding Meaning in the Path of Climate Disruption by Dahr Jamail
As an admirer and preserver of nature, I found Dahr Jamail’s The End of Ice: Bearing Witness and Finding Meaning in the Path of Climate Disruption pertinent, engaging and beautifully written. Attacking a very difficult subject to ponder (much less write about), Jamail weaved his personal experiences from climbing Denali Mountain in Alaska with climate science…
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Book Review: Stolen Girls: Survivors of Boko Haram Tell Their Story by Wolfgang Bauer
Did you know there is a very violent group called Boko Haram (meaning “Western education is forbidden”) in Nigeria kidnapping women and girls for the purpose of converting them to radical Islam? The Boko Haram refers to themselves as the “Group of People for Sunnah for the Preaching of Islam and Jihad.” Their goal is…
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Book Review: Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit (And Join the 2018 Women’s March)
I used to think feminists were insane. I actually thought they were overblown, volatile, superfluous, and – get this, “asking for it.” I thought they hated men. I thought they wanted to destroy men. And, as ignorant as a turnip, I thought feminists were Satanists. (Gulp. Did I actually admit that?) It was what I…
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Book Review: The Choice: Embrace the Possible by Edith Eva Eger
A stunning, powerful, beautifully-written memoir of her life as a Jewish child in Hungary, as a holocaust prisoner at Auschwitz, and the years of recovery thereafter, Edith Eva Eger’s, The Choice: Embrace the Possible, left me speechless. Through her incredible story, Eger shows us how to move from a victim, to a survivor, and then…
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Book Review: Creating a World That Works for All by Sharif Abdullah
“A human being is part of the whole, called [by us] “universe,” a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest – a kind of delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a prison for us … Our task must be to free ourselves…
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