Elizabeth Bastos

I am a lazy gardener. The best lazy gardening books for me are the ones that are about doing less, ...

Gardening books have changed my fashion aesthetic! I used to be a yoga-panted athleisure-wearing suburban soccer mom (by outward appearance; ...

Accessories for nature and science book lovers should include tools for observation of the natural world, right? Therefore I submit to ...

Sigrid Nunez won the 2018 National Book Award for Fiction for The Friend.  The New York Times wrote, tongue in ...

Want to see what humor writing should look like? Re-visit The Importance of Being Earnest.

Let’s talk about the father-son relationship in the 1989 Booker Award-winning The Remains of The Day by Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro. Let’s ...

We need some haiku about cherry blossoms right now to keep us as hopeful. As Percy Bysshe Shelley famously wrote, ...

Regarding Fortinbras the dog in A Wrinkle In Time: I want some backstory. IMHO, he is a great character, one of ...

Reese Witherspoon’s Whiskey In A Teacup What Growing Up in the South Taught Me About Life, Love, and Baking Biscuits, a ...

Musings on reading in medical office waiting rooms, how the reading materials offered could be improved, and some recommended reading.

“Dickens lite,” my mom said dismissively after I demanded (as only a firstborn can) that she read Imogen Hermes Gowar’s The ...

So many people hate winter.  Me, too. However, strangely, I really enjoy extreme winter reading about ice adventures, especially historical fiction of ...

A reader shares some thoughts on JOYFUL by Ingrid Fetell Lee, discussing how simple aesthetic shifts can create joy.

GuRu by RuPaul is just the kind of stocking stuffer I want to give everyone like me who has seasonal ...

When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times by Pema Chodron is a classic book about Buddhist meditation in ...