Braiding Sweetgrass

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer, is everything you want a nonfiction book to be. I was very overwhelmed by her writing (in the best way) because it is very poetic. You will learn a lot and it will make you appreciate our relationship with the… Continue reading Braiding Sweetgrass

Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe

I completed this book as a buddy read with one of my friends and we still cannot stop talking about it months later. My friend convinced her mom and their book club to read it as well, but they had more mixed feelings about it than we did. We watched the Hulu limited series called… Continue reading Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe

Upstream by Mary Oliver

Mary Oliver was an American poet who has won a National Book Award and a Pulitzer Prizer for poetry. A writer is not defined by their awards but it is still an impressive feat. I have also read her collection of poems that she curated herself, Devotions. Upstream is a collection of essays where she… Continue reading Upstream by Mary Oliver

The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo.

Posting a book this early in the year! I hope I am up for the challenge to actually finish the 6 posts I put as my goal for 2024. 2023 was pretty much a bust and it was not a great reading year for me. But enough about my posting woes and let us turn… Continue reading The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo.

Better Living Through Birding by Christian Cooper

Starting off with admitting that I did not even come close to finishing my Book it Babe Project 2023. I mostly read romance because I wasn't really into anything else. My second most read books were non-fiction including the one I will be talking about now. This book will fall under "2023 release" for the… Continue reading Better Living Through Birding by Christian Cooper