Nonfiction was only a fraction of what I read in 2025, but The Six: The Untold Story of America’s First Women Astronauts (2023) by Loren Grush made me want to read more. While some of the individual women that were part of the first women to be part of NASA’s first astronaut class to includeContinue reading “The Six: The Untold Story of America’s First Women Astronauts”
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Weight and Wisdom: Reflections on Decades of Working for Body Liberation
Weight and Wisdom: Reflections on Decades of Working for Body Liberation (publication day January 1, 2025) edited by Nancy Ellis-Ordway and Tigress Osborn, foreword by Caleb Luna, is the essay collection that has been missing in body liberation literature. Tigress and Nancy, and others, have collected dozens of personal essays from activists and therapists whoContinue reading “Weight and Wisdom: Reflections on Decades of Working for Body Liberation”
A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan’s Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan’s Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them (2023) by Timothy Egan is described as a “historical thriller” and that is true–I couldn’t stop listening to it at every opportunity, even though I knew the outcome. What is most horrifying is that itContinue reading “A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan’s Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them”
Reading While Fat 