Category: Book review
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The Honey Trap, How the Good Intentions of Urban Beekeepers Risk Ecological Disaster, by Dana L. Church
Read this book if you want to keep honey bees. Read this book if you like honey. Read this book if you want to know more about pollinators and how they’re important to the planet. Read this book if you want to ‘save the bees’, but aren’t sure how to…
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Playing Army, a novel by Nancy Stroer
Book review by Ellen Symons I get excited when people I treasure have a book published. Like Playing Army, by Nancy Stroer, which kept me reading not just once through, but twice; and I would read it again. This book is gritty, funny, moving, and important. Its characters are beautifully…
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The Secret Practice: Eighteen Years on the Dark Side of Yoga: A Memoir, by Joelle Tamraz
For any of us searching for acceptance and belonging outside ourselves, Joelle Tamraz has shared an important story that reaches beyond the yoga world and encourages us to take responsibility for shaping ourselves as we want to be.
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Dog Church: a memoir by Gail Gilmore
Book review: Dog Church by Gail Gilmore. “Words meant to be consumed by the heart” I’m so very glad to have read Dog Church, by Gail Gilmore. Its words are, indeed, meant to be consumed by the heart, and any heart that has known the love and loss of an…
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