“laughter was jaguar medicine.” In 1956, Nate Saint and four other missionaries, were killed by the Waorani people of the Amazon. His sister, Rachel Saint, felt some sort of connection to the location and the people, and made it her life’s mission to “save” them. This is the still shielded world Nemonte Nenquimo was bornContinue reading “WE WILL BE JAGUARS – Nemonte Nenquimo & Mitch Anderson”
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COUNTING THE COST – Jill Duggar
While doing my latest book nook, I listened to Counting the Cost, Jill Duggar’s 2023 memoir that was written with her husband, Derick Dillard, and Craig Borlase. I had watched the Duggars with a bit of morbid fascination throughout the years, much like most reality TV, and was even more captivated when the religious houseContinue reading “COUNTING THE COST – Jill Duggar”
NEVER LEAVE THE DOGS BEHIND – Brianna Madia
A little over two years ago, I wrote the following about Brianna Madia’s first novel, Nowhere for Very Long: “It tastes like sunbaked earth that leads to a hidden spring that no one knows about but you. It smells like flowers growing wild and untamed. It sounds like howling at the moon.” I was hopingContinue reading “NEVER LEAVE THE DOGS BEHIND – Brianna Madia”
NOWHERE FOR VERY LONG: The Unexpected Road to an Unconventional Life – Brianna Madia
I’ve been following Brianna Madia since just before the Dagwood incident. (If you know Madia, you know what I’m referring to.) Part of what drew me to her are her abilities as a storyteller. Full disclosure – I have been openly critical of how she feeds the social media beast, the dangerous devil-may-care attitude sheContinue reading “NOWHERE FOR VERY LONG: The Unexpected Road to an Unconventional Life – Brianna Madia”
EDUCATED – Tara Westover
Our minds do the most magical of things with our memories. We suppress, we embrace, we mold truth into something more tenable, we exaggerate, we deify, we villainize. Memory is a tricky thing, and we are not to be trusted. So how do we find the truth in our memories? How do we distinguish betweenContinue reading “EDUCATED – Tara Westover”
Mishna Wolff – I’m Down
This review has been a long time coming. Law school gets in the way of fun things. My apologies. Of all the books of 2010 (which weren’t nearly as many as I would have liked), I’d recommend I’m Down the most. Well, I’m Down and God of the Animals. Mishna Wolff’s childhood memoir is brilliant. Continue reading “Mishna Wolff – I’m Down”
A Girl Named Tommi 