Christine F

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Chris lives in the Milwaukee area where she works as a freelance writer and editor. Though most of her client work is “writing for business,” two of her essays have been published by Brain, Child magazine. A bookclub junkie, she’s either joined or formed one in every city she's lived since the hardcover release of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.

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The Workshop and the World
The Workshop and the World: What Ten Thinkers Can Teach Us About Science and Authority
by Robert P. Crease
(4/3/2019)
The subject matter is philosophically complex, but Crease makes it accessible. He synthesizes each thinker's contribution to the broad philosophical sphere, demonstrating how their work built upon the thinking of their predecessors. He also includes examples of contemporary science denial that highlight the pernicious consequences of failing to listen to reason.
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Deep Creek
Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country
by Pam Houston
(2/6/2019)
Houston considers large and vexing questions that stem from climate change: "Would I give up my life to save the earth?" Her answers weave in and out of her essays, mostly as the physical details that move her toward gratitude and awe. She shows passion for the living and grieves the creatures she can no longer protect.
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How the Internet Happened
How the Internet Happened: From Netscape to the iPhone
by Brian McCullough
(11/14/2018)
McCullough tells the human side of the Internet story, the blind rush toward the next big thing and the rapid successes and failures along the way. This well-researched and well-curated history provides just the right amount of detail to keep the reader engaged and connected to the stories of those involved.
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The Water Will Come
The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World
by Jeff Goodell
(1/24/2018)
The Water Will Come is an important book, regardless of where you live. It moves the conversation from a nebulous debate on "climate change" to a concrete set of data points that signal danger in the rising tides. [It] provides historical background on climate change, introduces the work of climatologists, and describes the many costs associated with rising oceans. Goodell writes, "Sea-level rise is one of the central facts of our time, as real as gravity. It will reshape our world in ways most
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Solar Bones
Solar Bones
by Mike McCormack
(11/1/2017)
It took me some time to adjust to the book's style; I had to make a conscious choice to break with the expectations I brought to the text. But I am so grateful that I did. Reading this book felt a little bit like falling, a long exhale of life's pent-up anxieties. "This is how you get carried away," Marcus says. When I allowed myself to be carried away along the bumps between line breaks, it felt like a rush and a clatter toward an inner beauty and stillness.
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Go, Went, Gone
Go, Went, Gone
by Jenny Erpenbeck (author), Susan Bernofsky (translator)
(10/18/2017)
In Go, Went, Gone, Richard gives of himself, choosing to see, to better understand, and to sympathize with people who, on the surface, seem so much different from himself. Without Richard, we may not meet someone like Apollo who speaks Tamasheq, Hausa, Arabic, Italian, and French in addition to the German he's learning. The new immigrants' stories make the abstraction of the refugee crisis more tangible. They remind us that borders are arbitrarily drawn lines of power and that we all belo
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Rebellion
Rebellion
by Molly Patterson
(9/6/2017)
Though the Boxer Rebellion is the presumed cause of Addie's disappearance, the historic event stays mostly in the background. The meat of the novel comprises the four stories and each character's means of rebelling against the bounds of her circumstance. These personal rebellions aren't easy to define. They are messy. Each character changes her situation, but there is always a price on the other end.
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The Last Neanderthal
The Last Neanderthal
by Claire Cameron
(6/21/2017)
Both protagonists struggle under different circumstances, but it is the similarities of these challenges that Cameron reinforces. Some of these parallels feel too heavily drawn. Cameron offers readers a possible storyline that doesn't differentiate our earliest ancestors from Neanderthals so much as welcome Neanderthals into the human tribe. Rose's narrative demonstrates the academic tension and the cultural resistance to new knowledge when it counters long-held cultural beliefs.
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Music of the Ghosts
(4/19/2017)
Throughout Music of the Ghosts, Ratner is thematically focused on the healing from "the killing fields"—for individuals, the country, and the culture. This recovery requires a balance of punishment and forgiveness. Certainly there are individuals who are guilty and need to be brought to justice. But how many others lie somewhere between guilt and innocence? As the two voices weave in and out of each other's past and present, Music of the Ghosts gives a nuanced and intimate view of
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