Nonfiction:
Plenty / Smith and MacKinnon
Alternating firsthand accounts of surviving the early days of the "local food" movement. The authors' hot-n-cold love affair with one other is way juicier than any beets they grow.
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid / Bryson
Funny memoir, made accessible because Bryson is so vulnerable and knows what that makes him. Psyched me up to think about Iowa as a place to live, not just a thing on a map.
Transitions / Bridges
Best book I've read in the past 2-3 years. Deep wisdom that sets you up for better understanding your own habituations around times of change.
The Great Emergence / Tickle
Second-best book I've read in the past 2-3 years. Phyllis Tickle nails the changing religio-cultural condition with respect to Christianity with equal parts alacrity, warmth, and hope. Or at least that's how I read it.
Christianity for the Rest of Us / Butler Bass
Everyone's pretty much read this one by now, right?
Made to Stick / Heath and Heath
An extended meditation on how to take a virtuous idea and employ it successfully and memorably.
Fiction:
Shadow of Power / Martini
Compelling law procedural in which race matters, with minor points building nicely together.
Death of a Poison Pen / Death of a Village - Beaton
Yummy trifles.
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