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Confessions of a Bookaholic: Brains
I have a thing with learning more about how the brain works,. I love reading books about weird medical industry outliers, and I love reading neuroscience stuff about how neurons fire and misfire and...
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Friends! Phoenicians! Fellow Book Nerds!
Friends! Phoenicians! Bookworms! Lend me your ears! Or, your eyeballs! Your scroll fingers? Or…well, this is getting kind of macabre, I don’t want a pile of body parts, just pay attention mmmkay? This...
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Confessions of a Bookaholic: Revolutionary War America
A few biographies of the movers and shakers of the founding of the United States. I have kind of a crush on feminist Burr and I want Abigail Adams to be my mother, or my aunt, or whatever. Also, I...
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Confessions of a Bookaholic: Sciencey Things
If you’ve been around here for a minute you know that I’m kiiiinda of obsessed with evolution, science, and genetics. If you’re new, well, welcome; I’m Harriet, I’m kind of obsessed with evolution,...
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Confession of a Bookaholic: Stories from World War I & World War II
There are approximately twenty-hundred-million books written about World war I and World War II, this is just a handful of them, but it’s what I’ve been reading lately. World War I Dead Wake: Last...
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Confessions of a Bookaholic: Women of the Supreme Court
Over the last month or three I have managed to read at least one book (usually more) by or about every one of the women who have sat on the bench for the United States Supreme Court. It has been so...
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Confession of a Bookaholic: Women Who Ruled the Ancient World
I was really hoping to have a triumphant opening paragraph to this post, with HRC elected as the most powerful leader in the modern world. I will resign myself that she received the most votes for the...
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Confessions of a Bookaholic: North Korea
A few years ago I became obsessed with North Korea, the lives of ordinary citizens who current live under the Kim dynasty, and especially those who have managed to escape and make their way to South...
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Confessions of a Bookaholic: A collection of reviews about war in Africa
It seems a little strange to offer a handful of reviews of books written about surviving various wars in Africa: Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Rwanda. However, here we are. The African conflicts I know the...
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Confessions of a Bookaholic: Race, Civil Rights, and #blacklivesmatter
For the last few months I have been trying to educate myself a lot more about the racial tensions and battles in the United States, both in the days of yore, and also yesterday. As more and more black...
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Confession of a Bookaholic: Tales of Explorers and Adventurers
I love me a good adventure story, I love the discovery and thrill of wandering among the new, forging paths unknown, and the grit and glory required for surviving under less-than-stellar circumstances...
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Confessions of a Bookaholic: Henrik Ibsen plays
Henrik Ibsen, a Norwegian playwright, spent his career picking apart stodgy Victorian values to examine the seedy underbelly, actual relationships, and human behaviors that flourished as real-life...
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Confessions of a Bookaholic: Book reviews about red rock country
This year I decided to write my book reviews a little differently instead of focusing on what I read chronologically, I want to group similar books together by topic and write about them that way....
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Confessions of a Bookaholic: Feminism, volume 1
The more I read and hear about the war on women, the more I actively seek out additional information. The more I seek, the more I find, and the more I realize that once seen I cannot unsee the vast...
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Confessions of a Bookaholic: Creativity and Writing
I seem to go through phases of high creative output and then these doldrum-y weeks where I don’t want to do anything but lie on my fainting couch, watching Netflix and eating frozen M&Ms. Granted,...
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Confessions of a Bookaholic: Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald and the Jazz Age
I have a literary crush on F. Scott Fitzgerald, but for the last couple of years I have wanted to know a lot more about his wife Zelda, their actual relationship, and what really went on during their...
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Confessions of a Bookaholic: Eating Locally
Over the last couple of months I have become more and more interested in eating locally, meaning, eating fruits and vegetables that have been raised and farmed responsibly and sustainably close to my...
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How To Start The Best Book Club In All The Land
For the last four years a group of friends has met the second Thursday of every month to talk about books; Book Club is a solid pillar of my social life and my reading list. Really, Book Club is my...
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Confessions of a Bookaholic: Habits, Efficiency, and baby steps towards...
My life is very different as far as time management goes than it was 3 months ago, I’m working remotely from home and am figuring out that piece, and I also figuring out how to merge my life with Blue...
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All The Books I Cannot Read
You know that millenial-generational thing, FOMO? Fear Of Missing Out? I have that, kind of, but about books. When I stop to think about it I get genuinely upset when I think about all the books in the...
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