Anonymous
01/06/2023 12:49
Subject: Nonfiction suggestions
Millie-Christine: Fearfully and Wonderfully Made
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Neurotribes
Cod
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Neurotribes
Cod
Anonymous
01/02/2023 16:12
Subject: Nonfiction suggestions
The soul of a new machine or Mountains beyond Mountains, Tracey Kidder (or House, too)
2nd (or 3rding) Bad Blood
The song lines, Bruce Chatwin
MFK fisher (any of them)
And the Band Played On (if you haven’t read it)
Oliver sacks
Travels with charley
Notes from a native son
2nd (or 3rding) Bad Blood
The song lines, Bruce Chatwin
MFK fisher (any of them)
And the Band Played On (if you haven’t read it)
Oliver sacks
Travels with charley
Notes from a native son
Anonymous
01/01/2023 17:50
Subject: Nonfiction suggestions
The Seeing Eye Girl (memoir)
Anonymous
01/01/2023 17:46
Subject: Re:Nonfiction suggestions
Killers of the Flower Moon. So well written by David Grann. Can’t wait for the Scorsese film adaptation.
Anonymous
12/31/2022 14:01
Subject: Nonfiction suggestions
Anonymous wrote:The Quantum Zoo: A Tourist's Guide to the Never-Ending Universe, by Marcus Chown
This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession, Daniel J Levitin
Einstein, Picasso: Space, Time, and the Beauty that Creates Havoc, by Arthur Miller
I picked this up based on your rec and am LOVING it.
Anonymous
12/30/2022 17:19
Subject: Nonfiction suggestions
Anonymous wrote:I love Elizabeth Kolbert's books.
Is there one you’d suggest starting with?
Anonymous
12/30/2022 15:00
Subject: Nonfiction suggestions
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:If you like medical stuff, anything by Atul Gawande
He’s a fantastic writer. He chooses the most interesting topics, explains technical issues with surprising clarity, and threads in empathy, ethics, and straight-up humanity throughout it all. In addition to his books, try pulling up his articles from the New Yorker archives (or on audio). Each one is a gem.
Checklist Manifesto is an excellent read for anyone dealing in risk management decision making.
Anonymous
12/09/2022 16:56
Subject: Nonfiction suggestions
I love Elizabeth Kolbert's books.
Anonymous
12/08/2022 19:16
Subject: Nonfiction suggestions
Madame Forcade’s Secret War. Great perspective on the French Resistance that stayed very much Below the radar in the immediate post war storytelling.
Anonymous
12/01/2022 10:48
Subject: Re:Nonfiction suggestions
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Empire of Pain, about the opioid epidemic - will make you question everything the FDA approves
Madame Secretary - Madeleine Albright's autobiography
The Genius of Birds by Jennifer Ackerman
A Midwife's Tale by Laurel Thatcher Ulright - probably my favorite nonfiction ever. Takes the daily diary of a woman from colonial New England who was a midwife and extrapolates all kinds of detail about the lives of ordinary women during that time period
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer - series of essays/linked chapters about Indigenous peoples' interactions with nature and what we can learn from them
Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain - a young woman during WWI, authobiography
Life and Death of the Great Lakes - fascinating investigative reporting about the ecological disaster in the Great Lakes
All That She Carried by Tiya Miles - looks at the items a young enslaved girl brought with her out of slavery and what they tell us about her life and that of her ancestors
All That She Carried was fantastic!
It's not new by a long stretch, but if you're local, Rosa Lee by Leon Dash remains one of the most compelling books I've ever read. Also not new but with a local hook, Katharine Graham's Personal History.
Thank you, Rosa Lee looks fantastic and I hadn't heard of it. I read and LOVED Katharine Graham's autobiography. Probably the best autobiography I've ever read.
Rosa Lee was tough.
All That She Carried was fantastic. Is the bag still on display at NMAAHC?
No, unfortunately. I checked after reading the book!
Ah well. Objects have to rest or we won’t have the object anymore.
Anonymous
12/01/2022 09:54
Subject: Nonfiction suggestions
Anonymous wrote:If you like medical stuff, anything by Atul Gawande
He’s a fantastic writer. He chooses the most interesting topics, explains technical issues with surprising clarity, and threads in empathy, ethics, and straight-up humanity throughout it all. In addition to his books, try pulling up his articles from the New Yorker archives (or on audio). Each one is a gem.
Anonymous
11/29/2022 18:57
Subject: Nonfiction suggestions
Say Nothing
It is about The Troubles in Northern Ireland
It is about The Troubles in Northern Ireland
Anonymous
11/29/2022 10:39
Subject: Re:Nonfiction suggestions
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Empire of Pain, about the opioid epidemic - will make you question everything the FDA approves
Madame Secretary - Madeleine Albright's autobiography
The Genius of Birds by Jennifer Ackerman
A Midwife's Tale by Laurel Thatcher Ulright - probably my favorite nonfiction ever. Takes the daily diary of a woman from colonial New England who was a midwife and extrapolates all kinds of detail about the lives of ordinary women during that time period
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer - series of essays/linked chapters about Indigenous peoples' interactions with nature and what we can learn from them
Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain - a young woman during WWI, authobiography
Life and Death of the Great Lakes - fascinating investigative reporting about the ecological disaster in the Great Lakes
All That She Carried by Tiya Miles - looks at the items a young enslaved girl brought with her out of slavery and what they tell us about her life and that of her ancestors
All That She Carried was fantastic!
It's not new by a long stretch, but if you're local, Rosa Lee by Leon Dash remains one of the most compelling books I've ever read. Also not new but with a local hook, Katharine Graham's Personal History.
Thank you, Rosa Lee looks fantastic and I hadn't heard of it. I read and LOVED Katharine Graham's autobiography. Probably the best autobiography I've ever read.
Rosa Lee was tough.
All That She Carried was fantastic. Is the bag still on display at NMAAHC?
No, unfortunately. I checked after reading the book!
Anonymous
11/29/2022 10:39
Subject: Nonfiction suggestions
If you like medical stuff, anything by Atul Gawande
Anonymous
11/29/2022 10:05
Subject: Nonfiction suggestions
On the heels of Elizabeth Holmes' sentencing, I highly recommend "Bad Blood" by John Carreyrou, the WSJ reporter who first blew the lid off the Theranos scandal. It's riveting stuff.