Due to a death in the family, I was in need of a little help. My extremely well read writer pal Lynne M Favreau offered to guest blog, and so I asked her to write about a few things that were up her alley - Books is one of them. Soon to come - her non-fiction picks! Thank you Lynne!
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In case you haven't already read her first book, here it is, and it is hysterical.
Thunder and Lightning
“Lauren Redniss is one of the most creative science writers of our time—her combination of beautiful artwork, reporting, and poetic prose brings science to life in ways that words alone simply cannot. Thunder & Lighting is a fascinating meditation on how climate affects the earth’s landscape and the lives inhabiting it, but also how the landscape of a book—the layout of its text, the images on its pages—impacts the telling of a story. This is an important book about a topic that couldn’t be more important to us all.”—Rebecca Skloot
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"Some people have called this my “magnum opus”. I don’t know what that means but it sounds very 80’s, and I like Magnum and Opus so I’m taking it as a compliment. To clarify, there are no mustachioed detectives or cartoon penguins in this book but there are other things, such as:
• The time I lost both my arms in a sleeping accident
• The neighborhood swans that tried to eat me
• The day Australia refused to let me get Chlamydia even though I was wearing a protective koala costume
• Advice on how to survive the zombie apocalypse, the airport, and the zombie apocalypse at the airport
• Completely inappropriate things I’ve blurted out to fill awkward silences at my psychiatrist’s office."
• The time I lost both my arms in a sleeping accident
• The neighborhood swans that tried to eat me
• The day Australia refused to let me get Chlamydia even though I was wearing a protective koala costume
• Advice on how to survive the zombie apocalypse, the airport, and the zombie apocalypse at the airport
• Completely inappropriate things I’ve blurted out to fill awkward silences at my psychiatrist’s office."
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In case you haven't already read her first book, here it is, and it is hysterical.
Let’s Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir is a poignantly disturbing, yet darkly hysterical tome for every intellectual misfit who thought they were the only ones to think the things that Lawson dares to say out loud. Like laughing at a funeral, this book is both irreverent and impossible to hold back once you get started.
When Jenny Lawson was little, all she ever wanted was to fit in. That dream was cut short by her fantastically unbalanced father (a professional taxidermist who created dead-animal hand puppets) and a childhood of wearing winter shoes made out of used bread sacks. It did, however, open up an opportunity for Lawson to find the humor in the strange shame spiral that is her life, and we are all the better for it.
“Lauren Redniss is one of the most creative science writers of our time—her combination of beautiful artwork, reporting, and poetic prose brings science to life in ways that words alone simply cannot. Thunder & Lighting is a fascinating meditation on how climate affects the earth’s landscape and the lives inhabiting it, but also how the landscape of a book—the layout of its text, the images on its pages—impacts the telling of a story. This is an important book about a topic that couldn’t be more important to us all.”—Rebecca Skloot
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David McCullough, two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, tells the
surprising, profoundly American story of Wilbur and Orville Wright.
Far more than a couple of unschooled Dayton bicycle mechanics who happened to hit on success, they were men of exceptional courage and determination, and of far-ranging intellectual interests and ceaseless curiosity, much of which they attributed to their upbringing. The house they lived in had no electricity or indoor plumbing, but there were books aplenty, supplied mainly by their preacher father, and they never stopped reading.BUY for 17.99, List Price: $30.00, Save: $12.01 (40%)at Amazon.com
Far more than a couple of unschooled Dayton bicycle mechanics who happened to hit on success, they were men of exceptional courage and determination, and of far-ranging intellectual interests and ceaseless curiosity, much of which they attributed to their upbringing. The house they lived in had no electricity or indoor plumbing, but there were books aplenty, supplied mainly by their preacher father, and they never stopped reading.BUY for 17.99, List Price: $30.00, Save: $12.01 (40%)at Amazon.com
Razzle Dazzle is a provocative, no-holds-barred narrative account
of the people and the money and the power that re-invented an iconic
quarter of New York City, turning its gritty back alleys and sex-shops
into the glitzy, dazzling Great White Way—and bringing a crippled New
York from the brink of bankruptcy to its glittering glory.
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg never asked for fame—she was
just trying to make the world a little better and a little freer. But
along the way, the feminist pioneer's searing dissents and steely
strength have inspired millions. Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg,
created by the young lawyer who began the Internet sensation and an
award-winning journalist, takes you behind the myth for an intimate,
irreverent look at the justice's life and work. As America struggles
with the unfinished business of gender equality and civil rights,
Ginsburg stays fierce. And if you don't know, now you know. Buy for $12.22 $19.99 | Save 39% at Barnes and Noble
The visionary genius who singlehandedly steered the revolutionary path of Sun Records.
The music that he shaped in his tiny Memphis studio with artists as diverse as Elvis Presley, Ike Turner, Howlin' Wolf, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Johnny Cash, introduced a sound that
had never been heard before. He brought forth a singular mix of black
and white voices passionately proclaiming the vitality of the American
vernacular tradition while at the same time declaring, once and for all,
a new, integrated musical day. With extensive interviews and
firsthand personal observations extending over a 25-year period with
Phillips, along with wide-ranging interviews with nearly all the legendary Sun Records artists, Guralnick gives us an ardent, unrestrained portrait of an American original. BUY for 21.51, List Price: $32.00, Save: $10.49 (33%) at Amazon.com
Perhaps no one is better acquainted with the intersection of economics
and politics than Robert B. Reich, and now he reveals how power and
influence have created a new American oligarchy, a shrinking middle
class, and the greatest income inequality and wealth disparity in eighty
years. He makes clear how centrally problematic our veneration of the
“free market” is, and how it has masked the power of moneyed interests
to tilt the market to their benefit.
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