Category: Nonfiction Books
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Review and Summary: The Book of Alchemy
Journaling doesn’t have to be awkward. The Book of Alchemy shows you how it can actually feel healing and make you really want to write.
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Review and Summary: Turning to Stone
Turning to Stone is a book where a geologist writes about rocks and the search for meaning in a world that won’t sit still.
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Review and Summary: Tiny Experiments
In a world obsessed with purpose-driven careers, Tiny Experiments offers a reminder: maybe we don’t need to chase one grand calling.
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Review and Summary: The Notebook
Notebooks seem simple, but their story isn’t. The Notebook by Roland Allen shows how they shaped thought and creativity.
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Review and Summary: The Backyard Bird Chronicles
Amy Tan turns everyday birdwatching into a beautifully illustrated nature journal that gently shifts how you see the world around you.
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Review: 1000 Words
Jami Attenberg and fellow writers share inspiring insights on staying creative, focused, and productive throughout the writing year.
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Review: On Character
In short, reflective chapters, a retired general shares his life journey and how his views have evolved over time.
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Review: There Lives A Young Girl in Me Who Will Not Die
Haunting, honest, and beautifully translated, The Young Girl in Me Who Will Not Die captures the deepest parts of life and feeling.
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Review: Ordinary Time
Staying isn’t always easy but it can be meaningful. Ordinary Time shares personal essays on faith, place, and life in the quiet middle.
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Review and Summary: Searches
Searches is a reflective essays that explores how the tools we use daily have become mirrors, magnifiers, and even editors of our identities.
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Review and Summary: Moral Ambition
Moral Ambition by Rutger Bregman explores how purpose, privilege, and action can shape a better world through realistic idealism.
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Review: Childhood, Youth, Dependency
Childhood, Youth, Dependency is a memoir of growing up as a girl in a working-class family in 1950s Denmark.
