
Sabbatical Readings
Keep calm and read more books (dystopias and fairytales).

Keep calm and read more books (dystopias and fairytales).

Three incidental books. Books I wandered into because I couldn’t quit the author yet or because a book looked really good on the library shelf.

Science, science accountability, and science fiction.

That’s my general prescription for life: eat decent food, homemade whenever possible, with people whenever possible. Talk. Encourage. Make art. Play music. Dance. Take risks. Be at least occasionally spontaneous.

Welcome back to “What Zoe Read,” my plot to get more people reading and talking about books!

Three Fridays ago had all the ingredients of a perfect day. First, it was Friday and there would be no school. Second, we had been invited by beloved friends to the ballet (“Narnia,” or, as…

Today let’s explore authoritarianism with graphic novels and sundry works on 20th century conflicts! None of which seem to have truly left us…

…And though the last lights off the black West went Oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs — Because the Holy Ghost over the bent World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright…

Let’s explore revolutions with children. (See my 2/13 post for works on World War 1.) Works that expand on what my children are studying in history bear heavily on my reading choices. Recently, I was…

Welcome back to my reading column! I appreciate your visit and hope you may find something here to explore if you don’t currently have a book in hand. Today I solemnly find trench warfare mud…