February 2019 Book Recap

Hands down favorite of the month: *How to Change Your Mind* by Michael Pollan, “mental travelogue” says it all. 

*Nonfiction*

How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan 
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ [Science, psychology]

The Periodic Table by Primo Levi 
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ [History, memoir]

Theft By Finding by David Sedaris 
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ [Humor, memoir]

Shadow Divers by Robert Kurson 
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ [History, adventure]

Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman by Lindy West 
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ [Feminism, memoir]

Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? by Seth Godin 
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ [Business, leadership] 

Men Explain Thing to Me by Rebecca Solnit 
⭐️⭐️⭐️ [Feminism, essays]

The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley 
⭐️⭐️⭐️ [aka, Huxley rants on mescaline] 

Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die by Chip Heath 
⭐️⭐️⭐️ [Not that sticky.]

*Fiction* 

Stalker by Lars Kepler 
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ [Swedish crime thriller]

Pet Sematary by Stephen King 
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ [Sometimes, dead is better.]

Pachinko by Min Jin Lee 
⭐️⭐️⭐️ [Historical fiction, Asia]

Hag-Seed by Margaret Atwood 
⭐️⭐️⭐️ [Retelling, The Tempest]

Less by Andrew Sean Greet 
⭐️⭐️⭐️ [Pulitzer Prize winner!?]

Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens 
⭐️⭐️⭐️ [Swamp love]

What was your favorite read in February? 

*Bonus: Nonsensical Titular Poem*

Shadow Divers practice Theft by Finding, 
Men Explain Things to Me. 
The Linchpin creates things Made to Stick, 
like Pachinko. 

Where the Crawdads Sing, next to the Pet Sematary
you will find the Hag-Seed Stalker. 
Shrill is the call to The Doors of Perception,
which has Less to do with The Periodic Table than 
How to Change Your Mind.