The most soulful book I've read in my life. The beauty of Kimmerer's words, braiding native, scientific, and modern life is an experience I want to keep going back to.
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nigini rated Red Team Blues: 4 stars
Red Team Blues by Cory Doctorow (Martin Hench, #1)
Martin Hench is 67 years old, single, and successful in a career stretching back to the beginnings of Silicon Valley. …
nigini finished reading Red Team Blues by Cory Doctorow (Martin Hench, #1)
Red Team Blues by Cory Doctorow (Martin Hench, #1)
Martin Hench is 67 years old, single, and successful in a career stretching back to the beginnings of Silicon Valley. …
nigini rated The Will to Change: 5 stars
The Will to Change by bell hooks
Everyone needs to love and be loved -- even men. But to know love, men must be able to look …
nigini reviewed Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with …
Review of 'Braiding Sweetgrass' on 'Goodreads'
5 stars
nigini rated Ancillary Justice: 4 stars
Ancillary Justice by David M. Higgins (Imperial Radch, #1)
On a remote, icy planet, the soldier known as Breq is drawing closer to completing her quest. Once, she was …
nigini reviewed Conscience by Patricia Churchland
Review of 'Conscience' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
A highly informative read on brain research and how that intersects with human social practices and morality.
nigini rated The Best of Me: 5 stars
The Best of Me by David Sedaris, David Sedaris
For more than twenty-five years, David Sedaris has been carving out a unique literary space, virtually creating his own genre. …
nigini rated Bad Feminist: 5 stars
nigini rated Time after Time: 3 stars
nigini rated On the Road: 4 stars
Jack Kerouac: On the Road (1976)
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
On the Road is a 1957 novel by American writer Jack Kerouac, based on the travels of Kerouac and his …
nigini rated Kill My Mother: 4 stars
Kill My Mother by Jules Feiffer
From inside front cover: Annie Hannigan, an out-of-control teenager, jitterbugging in the 1930s ... dreams of offing her mother, Elsie, …
nigini rated The Best American Essays 2021: 5 stars
nigini rated The Will to Battle: 3 stars
The Will to Battle by Ada Palmer (Terra Ignota, #3)
The Will to Battle is the third book of John W. Campbell Award winner Ada Palmer's Terra Ignota series, a …
nigini rated Seven surrenders: 4 stars
Seven surrenders by Ada Palmer (Terra Ignota, #2)
"It is a world in which near-instantaneous travel from continent to continent is free to all. In which automation now …