Elizabeth Bastos has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Boston Globe, and writes at her blog 19th-Century Lady Naturalist. Follow her on Twitter: @elizabethbastos
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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 ...
I wish that when I was a tween that there had been more young adult books about Titanic although Walter Lord’s ...
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Instead of Black Friday, could you participate in Buy Nothing Day? Inspiration from Judith Levine's memoir Not Buying It: My Year Without Shopping.
If you haven't gotten around to Edith Wharton's Gilded Age sharp-witted look at the Old World vs. the new, get to it!
Retire forever the stereotype that writers are shlubs! With their use of fabric and “the fabric of language,” (as Samuel ...