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Recommended Reading

The best books are the ones you keep thinking about long after you stop reading.

Mind Fixers

Topics: Mental health

Harrington sorts out out the many different levels of interpretation and judgement that can shape narratives about mental suffering and relief. She shows how difficult it is to turn subjectivity into science.

Talk on the Wild Side

Topics: Grammar, Language

Lane Greene invites readers to think of all the ways that language is wild, as opposed to something that can be tamed or domesticated.

Those Bees and Bugs

Topics: Insects, Wildlife

In a time when people seem to be more aware of the plight of bees than of the bees themselves, these two authors will show you how to find and appreciate these creatures.

Lawn Boy

Topics: Adolescence, Fiction

This is a tale of an insightful and compassionate young man taking his first steps into adulthood with inconsistent guidance.

Extended Heredity

Topics: Biology, Evolution, Heredity

New experiments and theories have broadened ideas about the way an organism develops and how it passes traits to future generations.


The Restless Clock

Topics: Agency, History of Science

What is conscious agency?  How does it arise? Where does it reside? Do conscious agents have a place in western science?

Bloodlines

Topics: Memoir, Trauma

As you read this book, construct a family tree with as much detail you can fit into it.  It’s important to keep track of all the people and what can be understood from their lives.

The First Word

Topics: Evolution, Language

How did language evolve? This book is a comprehensive survey of the tantalizing ways researchers have failed to answer that question.

The Spaces Between Us

Topics: Awareness, Neuroscience

Have you ever inadvertently walked too close to an overhanging branch only to have a leaf or twig that you didn’t see slap you on the eyelid as you passed? 

Certain Women

Topics: American West, Film, Self

I remembered rushing up a stairway with a dog, dressing for the weather, smoking when no one was looking, waking up with the wrong shadow on the wall. 

Balsamroot

Topics: American West, Memoir

Balsamroot is the tale of three women, each navigating the unknown at a different stage of life.

The Secret Life of Dust

Topics: Dust

Every line of this book brings a new piece of information, and each mote of it is one that you will be delighted to discover.

Is That a Fish in Your Ear?

Topics: Language, Linguistics, Translation

This book delivers all sorts of information about language and translation that will make you wonder, “Why didn’t I ever think about this before?”

Sarah Canary

Topics: Historical novel, Paciic Northwest

This is a perfect book to take on a trip.  It is funny, philosophical, and suspenseful. The more slowly you read it, the better it is. 

Jagged Edge of the Sky

Topics: Australia, Book groups, Fiction, Idaho

This deep-keeled tale unfolds in a series of vignettes that span multiple generations on two continents. The connections that lie between the details will startle you long after you put the book down.


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Nancy blogs weekly for the Latah Recovery Community Center, sharing writing ideas that support self-awareness and self-esteem.


Looking for an art project that is secretly full of math? Or a math project that results in interesting art? Equilateral Triangle is an Inquiry Pack full of project ideas that will keep you thinking for a long time.


Writing classes and workshops

In-person Write-For-You workshops at the Latah Recovery Center have been suspended for a bit, but you can still do the writing prompts on your own. For more information, about the Write for You program, or if you are in recovery and interested in writing coaching, contact Nancy.


 

Let’s Talk About It

This is a program that supports reading and discussion in libraries throughout the state of Idaho.

Working with the Program Committee, I updated the theme The Humanity of Science and Technology.


Schedule of 2023-24 Let’s Talk About It sessions coming soon!


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