Reviews and Comments

This was a great read! If you wanna read an engaging autobiography, pick this up! Braverman talks about her first few years of experience dogsledding. (!!!) Content warning: sexual violence, dudes being assholes.

A surreal adventure into the world of ancient animal bestiaries. I found it a bit slow at times, as the main character info-dumps a lot. He’s often on his own doing research, which frankly, did not make the book more exciting for me, no matter how excited the main character is about his research. Still, I am glad I finished this.

This was great! Such wonderful histories to peer into.

I love this weird story. A kraken best friend! What's not to like?!

Thoughtful and well-written. I learned a lot! I'd definitely recommend this to anyone who wants to know more.

Library book. These poems were beautiful. There were only 24 of them so I feel like I zoomed through them too fast. I may have to reread this.

I read this for the August Japanese Book Club at the Argo Bookshop. This was an interesting story about a doctor sent abroad after Japan opened itself up to the world. It was an odd tale about aging, folklore, and death. It’ll be worth a reread in the future to look for all the little nuggets left by the multiple unreliable narrators.

I ate this book up! You get to read about this mortician’s first six years of work in the funeral industry. It was funny, provocative, and just plain interesting. This is the second book of Doughty’s that I’ve read. I look forward to more.

A thoughtful look at what constitutes a sacred practice, focusing mainly on meals, sacred reading, and… wait for it… the gym!

As a fan of his podcast, I was delighted to spend more time with Casper. I'm happy to learn more about rest.

It was short and fun play with Arthurian legends.

I’m learned a lot but I gotta admit, reading this is a slog. I really had to push myself. Still, this gets into the nitty gritty of settler colonial thinking which is super useful to know. Definitely worth a reread, although I wish I had a physical copy I could scribble in.

I’m still reading Kerouac when I can! Here he is writing his own Buddhist sutra or sacred text. It’s a wild read.

An incredible story.