Martha Beck
I’m not sure really what to classify this book as. After deciding to have a Downs Syndrome baby, Beck describes her decision to leave grad school and Harvard to return to her hometown of Provo Utah and her Mormon family. Through a winding path she describes the friendliness …
Laura PennyPenny’s book is not as much as a non-fiction account your current society as much as a very well-researched rant. Her premise is that our society rests on a base of bright, shiny gossamer thin bullshit. She differentiates “bullshit” and “lies” by stating the liars still know the
Patrick Mauries
After reading Preston and Child’s Cabinet of Curiosities, I couldn’t resist finding out more about cabinets of curiosities (the precursor to the modern museum). This gorgeous, weird book is a history of the cabinets and their weird contents – everything from sculpture, to shells and minerals, fake …
