Tag: non-fiction

Black Water: A Memoir of “Family, Legacy, and Blood Memory” [NF Review]

11 November 2020 / review / 14 Comments
Black Water: A Memoir of “Family, Legacy, and Blood Memory” [NF Review]

The son of a Cree father and a non-Indigenous mother, David A. Robertson was raised with virtually no knowledge or understanding of his family’s Indigenous roots. His father, Don, spent his early childhood on a  trapline in the bush northeast […]

“Advertising and the Time Bomb at the Heart of the Internet” [NF Review]

4 October 2020 / review / 4 Comments
“Advertising and the Time Bomb at the Heart of the Internet” [NF Review]

Subprime Attention Crisis: Advertising and the Time Bomb at the Heart of the Internet by Tim HwangSource: ebook/NetGalleyPublished: 13 Oct. 2020Publisher: FSGO x Logic (Macmillan)Length: 176 pages Genre: Non-fictionTarget Age: AdultI received a free copy from the publisher via NetGalley. 🍂 Author’s Twitter 🍂 David W. @ […]

The Origin of Netflix [Family Reads]

29 September 2020 / family reads / 2 Comments
The Origin of Netflix [Family Reads]

That Will Never Work: The Birth of Netflix and the Amazing Life of an Idea by Marc Randolph Netflix’s triumph feels inevitable, but the twenty first century’s most disruptive start up began with few believers and calamity at every turn. […]

The Northwest Passage, Then and Now [NF Review]

21 April 2020 / review / 4 Comments
The Northwest Passage, Then and Now [NF Review]

Preamble You know those posts that languish in your drafts for a couple years before you finally decide they’re timeless so you plunk them into your upcoming schedule and hope you can recall enough to write a decent post? Yeah, […]

The Buy Nothing, Get Everything Plan [NF Review]

10 April 2020 / review / 5 Comments
The Buy Nothing, Get Everything Plan [NF Review]

The Buy Nothing, Get Everything Plan: Discover the Joy of Spending Less, Sharing More, and Living Generously by Liesl Clark and Rebecca Rockefeller Inspired by the ancient practice of gift economies, where neighbors share and pool resources, The Buy Nothing, Get […]