A short-and-sweet mini review of Raising Critical Thinkers: A Parent‘s Guide to Growing Wise Kids in the Digital Age, by Julie Bogart. How can we raise critical thinkers in an age saturated with over-information and misinformation? How can we ourselves become critical thinkers? Furthermore, how can we notice when we or others are not reliable narrators? Julie Bogart answers these…
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A short and sweet review of On Getting Out of Bed: The Burden and Gift of Living, by Alan Noble. Honest hope for those living with depression. Every religion, self-help technique and business promises a way for you to get a pleasant life if you merit such. But tragedy is inevitable, author Alan Noble points out. “Life is far more…
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A short-and-sweet review of The Secret Wisdom of Nature: Trees, Animals, and the Extraordinary Balance of All Living Things ― Stories from Science and Observation, by Peter Wohlleben. This book surprised me with its ability to fascinate and hold me as a reader. Who knew a German forester could be such a gifted transmitter of his careful observations of nature?…
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He sketches the odyssey of two men and a boy in this story about grace and bitterness.
A brief review of If You Can Keep It: The Forgotten Promise of American Liberty, by Eric Metaxas. Benjamin Franklin supposedly said after helping with the Constitution that they had given the people not a monarchy but a republic—“if you can keep it!” Metaxas here examines the history of American democracy and draws the Americans of today to see the…
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