Content tagged with "essays"

Firewood Happens: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness in Minnesota’s Northwoods
Book
45

Here are some notes I took on the acquisition of this book:

Bought it at a gift shop in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota, where the author is a local.

I Might Regret This: Essays, Drawings, Vulnerabilities, and Other Stuff
Book Review
August 2, 2022
188

I bought this because I loved Broad City, and I have always wanted to drive across country. This is a book of essays and personal reflections from Abbi Jacobson – one of the creators of Broad City while she decided to drive across the country, from New York to Los Angeles. About a third of he way…

One Long River of Song: Notes on Wonder for the Spiritual and Nonspiritual Alike
Deane’s Library
Book Review
December 28, 2020
457

This is a book of essays – short chapters that have nothing to do with each other, though they are somehow grouped into sections. I have never read a book of essays. And this is not a book that I would have picked up, but a friend sent it to me. I had sent the friend a different book years ago. He…