#FictionFriday Review: “A Tale for the Time Being” by Ruth Ozeki

There is so much to enjoy in “A Tale for the Time Being.” Ozeki is a wonderful writer, and her prose is both nuanced and immensely readable. Nao is also an incredibly interesting character to read, both bright and bubbly and deeply troubled. However what I love most about “A Tale”  is how Ozeki subtly weaves together concepts from literature, philosophy, quantum mechanics, biology, ecology and religion into a single narrative.  

Happy International Women’s Day! 👩🏾‍🔬👩🏻‍⚖️👩🏼‍🔧👩🏾‍🎓👩🏼‍🚀🧕🏻👩🏼‍🏫👩🏽‍⚕️👩🏻‍💼

⁠⁠ ⁠⁠Happy International Women’s Day to all the brilliant women who are researching, experimenting, communicating, building, engineering, dreaming, designing, analysing, discovering, writing, supporting, caring, raising, and hoping for a better world. Happy IWD to the mothers, grandmothers, elders, godmothers, aunts and aunties who came before us and lit the way for us. Together we will

Quote of the Day

This must be one of my most favourite quotes. It’s long but beautiful, and it never fails to make me feel what it might be like to be a flock of birds. 🦅 ⁠ “As a boy, a boy, I sometimes sat down from my wandering only to wake up an hour later, surprised to

Dracula vs. Microchiroptera

Happy Halloween!⁠⁠ Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel Dracula introduced the Victorian world to the villainous Count Dracula and started a halloween tradition. But how does Dracula compare to real vampires – vampire bats? Swipe to find out! ➡️⁠⁠ If you’re looking for a fun spooky-season read, you should read the original Dracula by Bram Stoker. It’s

Book Club Questions: “I Contain Multitudes” by Ed Yong

You know how some novels end with questions to use as prompts at book club discussions? Why don’t non-fiction books have those?! We non-fiction readers like to have a good book chat over a cup of tea just as much as anyone. And non-fiction gives us so many important things to talk about… the nature

What books have changed your life?

What books have changed your life? ⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ For me, “I Contain Multitudes” by Ed Yong, was one of those life-changing reads. ⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ I read this book while grieving, and I didn’t expect it to help me deal with the loss of a life as much as it did. I picked it up expecting