Book Reviews & Recommendations
In Hunt, Gather, Parent: What Ancient Cultures Can Teach Us About the Lost Art of Raising Happy, Helpful Little Humans, Michaeleen Doucleff takes readers on a cross-cultural exploration of parenting. Combining journalism, anthropology, and personal reflection, Doucleff examines how ancient societies raise […]
Rating: ★★★★☆ (4/5) Lysa TerKeurst’s Good Boundaries and Goodbyes: Loving Others Without Losing the Best of Who You Are is a compassionate, faith-centered guide for anyone struggling to love well without sacrificing their peace. Known for her bestselling book It’s Not Supposed […]
Rating: ★★★★☆ (4/5) Vigdis Hjorth’s Is Mother Dead is a deeply psychological and unsettling novel that examines the tangled emotional terrain between mothers and daughters. Set in Oslo, it follows Johanna, a sixty-year-old artist who returns home after decades abroad to prepare […]
Rating: ★★★★★ (5/5) Hadley Vlahos’s The In-Between: Unforgettable Encounters During Life’s Final Moments is one of those rare books that manages to be heartbreaking, comforting, and profoundly illuminating all at once. As a hospice nurse and passionate advocate for end-of-life care, Vlahos […]
Rating: ★★★★☆ (4.5/5) Neige Sinno’s Triste Tigre is not a book one simply reads; it is a book one survives. Written with a rare blend of lucidity and anguish, this hybrid of memoir and essay examines the lifelong impact of sexual abuse […]
Rating: ★★★☆☆ (3/5) Kyle Prue’s How to Piss Off Men: 106 Things to Say to Shatter the Male Ego is as bold and unapologetic as its title suggests. Marketed as a quick-witted handbook for calling out toxic masculinity, it promises over a […]
In Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout, Cal Newport takes aim at one of the defining ailments of our era: the cult of busyness. Known for his bestselling books Deep Work and Digital Minimalism, Newport has built a career […]
In The Comfort Crisis: Embrace Discomfort To Reclaim Your Wild, Happy, Healthy Self, journalist Michael Easter makes a bold argument: our modern comfort is killing us slowly. With our climate-controlled homes, instant food delivery, and digital conveniences, we have eliminated nearly every […]
Yiyun Li’s newest memoir opens with a sentence no one wants to hear: there is no good way to say this. From that bare fact, she builds a book that looks directly at the unimaginable. After losing her sons Vincent in 2017 […]
If you have ever wondered why so many people feel unwell in a world overflowing with medical breakthroughs, The Myth of Normal will feel like a cold splash of water. Gabor Maté, writing with his son Daniel Maté, argues that suffering is […]