Happy Friday to you all! Things have been crazy busy here. This week is — no, was — spring break, and I had envisioned getting caught up on things that fell to the wayside during the last weeks of teaching last quarter and then having some time to relax and, you know, have a break. […]
Category Archives: Books
Review of ‘Bleating Hearts’ at The Kind Life
Good morning! Today I have a book review of Bleating Hearts: The Hidden World of Animal Suffering by Mark Hawthorne up at Alicia Silverstone’s site, The Kind Life. I hope you’ll hop on over there to read it. This book is extraordinary. Even as a committed animal advocate, I learned so much from it and […]
e-Book Launch: Gently Raw
My dear Serenity in the Storm readers (old and new!), I am so excited to share with you the fruits (raw foods pun intended?!) of my labor over the last several months. I have been hard at work writing Serenity in the Storm’s first e-book — Gently Raw — and it’s finally here and available for you […]
Calling All Vegans! Letters to a New Vegan Looking for Submissions
Today I want to let you all know about a fantastic book project — Letters to a New Vegan. This call for submission has been making the rounds, but there is still time to submit a letter for consideration. Melissa Tedrowe, of the lovely blog Mending Creation is heading up this project. Read on for […]
Meatonomics by David Simon
Have you all seen this book? MEATONOMIC$, by David Simon was released earlier this month. My copy arrived in the mail late last week (I had preordered it!) and I’m eager to begin reading it. I think it will be a great text to include in my Animals, Ethics and Food class and as recommended […]
The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating
This morning, I woke up at 5:30 to sound of a downpour. You know, the kind of rain that beats against the roof and you can just tell that it is soaking the plants and washing away the grit and dirt from weeks (no, months) of dryness. The kind of rain that is such a […]
CFP: Critical Animal Geographies edited volume
Good morning, Monday readers! Today I want to share a call for papers I’ve been working on with my colleague and friend, Rosemary-Claire Collard — for a Critical Animal Geographies edited scholarly anthology. Please consider submitting an abstract for consideration and it would be great if you could spread the word if you’re so inclined! Call for Contributors to Critical […]
Book Review of “Zooland: The Institution of Captivity”
Thank you all for your thoughtful responses to the post on marriage and childrearing. I’d love to hear more thoughts on this subject from everyone as it can be topic that draws out strong opinions one way or another. And I’ll definitely be posting another post on this topic soon. In the meantime, though, I […]
A Little House in the Big Woods
How many of you read the Laura Ingalls Wilder books when you were growing up? The Little House books were one of my favorite parts of childhood. My mom read the books aloud to me and my sister when we were kids and I remember collecting the hardback copies of the books over the course […]
Book Reviews Galore!
Today, our dear friend Karen has her first book review over at Our Hen House. She reviewed What the Animals Taught Me: Stories of Love and Healing from a Farm Animal Sanctuary by Stephanie Marohn. I haven’t read the book, but I’m interested in doing so after reading Karen’s review. On a similar topic, I […]