Tag: books

  • Bobbi Gibb

    Bobbi Gibb

    “When you’re running, you don’t have to think about what your boss wants you to do that day. You’re free. You feel the energy of the universe blowing through you.” Bobbi Gibb My next marathon is coming up, and surprise, surprise… I’m reading a new book about running: The Running Ground by Nicholas Thompson. It’s…

  • Death of the Author

    I finally got around to reading Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor. I can’t remember where I found out about it, just that it was a sci-fi book people were loving. It wasn’t what I expected and it didn’t seem science fiction enough, at least at the start. It was interesting enough to keep…

  • Barbarian Days

    Barbarian Days

    “Surfing isn’t a sport; it’s a path.”

  • Summer reading list

    Summer reading list

    I’ve been enjoying a lot of reading time lately, and I am taking advantage by floating between as many books as I feel like it. It’s wonderful.

  • Of wolves and men

    Of wolves and men

    I’m really enjoying Of Wolves and Men by Barry Lopez. This is a book about “the way that wolves and humans have interacted over centuries, and the way that the wolf has become so central to our thinking about animals.” I don’t know why I initially picked up a book about wolves, but I’m glad…

  • Tales of boys and their fathers

    Tales of boys and their fathers

    A repost from Critter.blog, just because I liked it so much: Tales of boys and their fathers are the same in every age, in every place. We love each other, hate each other, miss each other, hold each other back, but we can never live unaffected by each other. We try to be men and…

  • Designing the mind

    Designing the mind

    Do I need to read another book on self-improvement, and did this book help me learn anything new? I would say yes and yes.

  • Opposites attract

    Opposites attract

    I just finished reading Encounters with the Archdruid by John McPhee. Enjoyed it more that I thought I would. The premise isn’t all that exciting, like most McPhee books (his compendium about the geological history of North America won the Pulitzer prize!), but it was hard to put down. The portraits of the main characters…