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Feb 18, 2025: Book review: The Serviceberry by Robin Wall Kimmerer. Short, sweet, smart, hopeful and an invitation to joy and connection. 118 pages of service and …

Feb 17, 2025: Book review; Love, Africa by Jeffrey Gettleman Love, Africa by Jeffrey Gettleman. This memoir by a Pulitzer winning journalist on why he loves Africa despite being the person who rushed in to …

Feb 14, 2025: Book review: The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhorn. Thank you to Ilaiane Lorenz for the recommendation. Based on a real midwife in Maine in the late …

Feb 12, 2025: Book review of North to Home by Crissi McDonald. I’m obsessed with orca, so I had buy in from the cover. About 60 pages in, I saw a romance story …

Feb 12, 2025: Book Review: Never Burn Your Moving Boxes by Jolyn Young. I liked the author’s honesty and her determination. I can easily picture the landscape and …

Feb 12, 2025: Book review. Bewilderment by Richard Powers. Five stars! Brilliant characters, wonderful pacing, beautiful language. I couldn’t put it down. Then …

Feb 12, 2025: Book review: Yellowface by R.F. Kuang The author covers a lot of territory about cancel culture, the publishing business, etc. In the end, it’s an …

Feb 12, 2025: Book review of The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley. It took me some time to sink into the story but I’m glad I stuck with it and her ending warmed …

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Feb 10, 2025: Greetings from my sabbatical. I have news. Today, at 2pm local time, I submitted a manuscript to a publisher! I had a loose goal to see what would …

Feb 6, 2025: Thus begins our adventures. Joell has traveled deep into the south, to the land of horses, mountains, grassy fields and the sea. What stories would …