By Jim Heffernan I remember why I chose this book. It was the library’s fault. They waved it in front of me while I was doing an unrelated search on their website…
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BOOK REVIEW: How We Learn to Be Brave by Mariann Edgar Budde
OIOpublisher By Jim Heffernan It’s Women’s History month, and I want to profile a woman of today and review her best selling book. We might never had heard of Marian Budde if…
BOOK REVIEW: Hello Cruel World – 101 Alternatives to Suicide for Teens, Freaks, and Other Outlaws by Kate Bornstein
By Neal Lemery This has been a challenging book for me. I am all over the map in responding to it, and trying to process what I have read, and responding to how…
BOOK REVIEW: The Sirens’ Call by Chris Hayes
By Jim Heffernan Laura Swanson, my editor and a sneaky woman, flashed this bright object before me. I did not have high hopes for it. I was expecting a fluff piece from…
CLOUD & LEAF BOOKSTORE AUCTION FUNDRAISER FEB. 15th
REASON FOR AUCTION We love bringing our community together in the bookstore! But to make hosting events manageable, we need to pay for a few building improvements (including modifications to the private…
BOOK REVIEW: On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder
By Jim Heffernan Timothy Snyder has become a favorite author of mine. “Our Malady” is a very short book that is the best argument for universal health care I’ve ever read. “The…
BOOK REVIEW: Invisible Rulers by Renee DiResta
By Jim Heffernan I think maybe I’m a sucker for anything that has “invisible” in the title. It’s probably because the last 50+ years of my life have not progressed the way…
BOOK REVIEW: Letter from Birmingham Jail by Dr. Martin Luther King; Join Jim for a Virtual MLK Event Tomorrow Jan. 20th
By Jim Heffernan I find it a mind-crushing collision of lightness and darkness that Donald Trump’s inauguration and Martin Luther King’s birthday are happening on the same day. It’s a dissonance that…
BOOK REVIEW: Fire Weather – On the Front Lines of a Burning World by John Vaillant
By Jim Heffernan The Los Angeles wildfires in January is what drew me to this book from last year. It may have started out as a dutiful trek in search of information,…
BOOK REVIEW: Holding It Together – How Women Became America’s Safety Net
By Jim Heffernan I think it was the words “safety net” in the title that drew me this to book. I’ve long felt that the deterioration in our society could have been…