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Mission & Miscellaneous

Greetings, my book people and curious wanderers. Life is often a surprise.

Sabbatical Readings

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

Incidental Readings

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.

A Variety of Science

Science, science accountability, and science fiction.

A Time to Salsa

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.

Three Novels

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

Raising Wise Kids

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… 

Conflicts

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

Souls

…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… 

Revolutions with Children

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…