Content tagged with "essays"

Firewood Happens: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness in Minnesota’s Northwoods
Book Review
December 31, 2024
198

“This is a lovely, contemplative book of essays about cabin life in the Detroit Lake area of Minnesota. I bought up there at a gift store. The author is apparently a local, and this is his first collection of essays. The author owns a one-room cabin with no plumbing. He spends a lot of time up…”

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

“I bought this because (1) I loved Broad City , and (2) 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…”

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…”