MadelineJanuary is already coming to a close for the MadFind media insider and doing an overview of what was said and heard makes the process of understanding easier. A big reason I keep this blog …
Intuitive Eating: Why Diets Don’t Work And How To Solve The Skinny Issue
Intuitive Eating is for the people who have been on diets their whole life. They binge eat when they know they will need to cut food out and then they starve themselves until they either …
Breasts And Eggs: A Lifetime And Being A Women
Just as foreign films are very different from Hollywood films, foreign books are very different from the “Hollywood” books. In this case, a Japanese book called Breasts and Eggs that takes on the topic of …
Mindless Eating: How To Eat To Lose, Not Just What
Obsessing over food is now a great American pastime. Restaurant dishes, fast food, and packaged food all are loaded with fat, sugar, and salt. Just the way we like it. There is now an anti …
The Overstory: Gigantic Trees Interact With Us
The Overstory has won numerous literary awards including the Pulitzer Prize for literature and the National Book Award. Although it is a work of complete fiction, there are some themes in this book that ring …
Elevation: The Rare Condition Of Getting Lighter But Not Thinner
When ending Elevation, I could only image that Stephen King was trying to get to something. There were the obvious themes, but this is a comment on something deeper. This is not just a scary …
Station Eleven: What If A Great Killer Flu Broke Out?
I read Station Eleven in June of 2019. This is long before anyone could suspect a great killer flu would brake out and then a killer flu broke out. The story seemed implausible. Like, “that’s …
In Five Years: The End Comes Quickly In The Beginning
A few pages into In Five Years, the end is given. The rest of the book is how we get there. Dannie starts engaged to one man with a plan for the rest of her …
A Slow Fire Burning: Three Strange Women And A Murder
A Slow Fire Burning starts with the dead body of Daniel. The body was found on a house boat in a canal in London. The story then highlights the life and the interactions with three …
Yes, No, Maybe So: The Direct Political Young Adult Book
This young adult book is all about how two teenagers come back together through a political campaign. And that is only the tip of the political iceberg for these two people. They go canvassing and …