nonfiction
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Check Your Shelf Podcast – Nonfiction for Fiction Lovers
Media specialist and Alabama Take writer Laura Lott suggests some titles for fiction fans who may be hesitant to dabble in the world of nonfiction. We also talk about her favorite fiction from this year, as well as what we’re currently reading and what’s next on our TBR list. Books we discuss in this episode:…
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Check Your Shelf Podcast – All I Want For Christmas is Books
Do you still have some last minute gifts to buy? We have you covered! Jennifer Kimbrough (@jennythebookgal) joins us again to discuss the best book gifts we’ve ever received and our favorite books to give as gifts. We also talk about what we’ve been reading, and then Oscar is back to share some book reviews…
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Check Your Shelf podcast – Books on the Go
In our third episode Jennifer Kimbrough joins us to discuss her favorite audiobooks. She also fills us in on the best (and cheapest) ways to find audiobooks and listen to your heart’s content (28:00). She sticks around to discuss the buzz around Matthew Perry’s new book in our Book News segment (41:54), and then we…
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Review: The Electric Woman is a Memoir for the Ages
There’s a moment in Tessa Fontaine’s extraordinary memoir The Electric Woman: A Memoir in Death-Defying Acts where the owner of a sideshow tells her, now a performer, that they are “always playing. It’s all just playing.” That’s a hard-won lesson. Two-and-a-half years after her mother has a near-fatal stroke, Fontaine sought solace and work and answers in…
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‘Factfulness’, Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the World
If I had my way in the world, I would unabashedly slap a copy of Factfulness: Ten Reasons Why We’re Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think across the desk of every business executive, public employee, or Twitter-ranting high-schooler in the world, and with good reason. Hans Rosling, along with…