I Was A Lonely Planet Addict

Guest ContributorOctober 19, 2020

I’m the first person to admit it: I’m addicted to buying Lonely Planet guidebooks. When I’m preparing for a trip, one of the first things I do is head to...

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Book Review: Welcome To The Goddamn Ice Cube

Zoe BalaconisJuly 4, 2020

The narratorial voice of Welcome To The Goddamn Ice Cube is as cold as the title suggests, and as cold as the place Blair Braverman, our guide and author, keeps...

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Book Review: ‘Keeper of the Mountains: The Elizabeth Hawley Story’

Guest ContributorFebruary 23, 2020

Keeper of the Mountains: The Elizabeth Hawley Story By Bernadette McDonald; Foreword by Sir Edmund Hillary I must have heard about Elizabeth Hawley first w...

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Review: ‘A Woman’s Guide to the Wild’ by Ruby McConnell

Sara Kay MooneyFebruary 18, 2020

In the introduction to her book A Woman’s Guide to the Wild: Your Complete Outdoor Handbook, author Ruby McConnell describes her motivation for writing this p...

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Book Reviews: Sandwiches and Roller Derby

MisadventuresDecember 11, 2020

Book Review: Derby Life: A Crash Course in the Incredible Sport of Roller Derby By Margot “Em Dash” Atwell Gutpunch press, 2015 Part how-to, part history...

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Overdue Book Review: Arlene Blum’s Breaking Trail

Guest ContributorNovember 25, 2020

Breaking Trail (2005) is not your “average” climbing book – cold and full of technical details. Blum’s first book, Annapurna (1980), certainly communic...

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Review: Spinster - Making a Life of One’s Own

Elizabeth WellingtonOctober 9, 2020

In Spinster: Making a Life of One’s Own, Kate Bolick dives into her desire for for a life that transcends marriage and allows her to flourish on her own terms...

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Overdue Book Review: Annapurna by Arlene Blum

Guest ContributorSeptember 26, 2020

Annapurna: A Woman's Place journals the 1978 women’s climb to Annapurna I in the Nepal Himalayas. Annapurna I stands at 8,091 meters (or 26, 545 feet) and is...

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Books: Post-Apocalypse Ladies in the Spotlight

Jessica MalordyAugust 31, 2020

As we contemplate, not only how to survive the end of the world but whether such survival would even be worthwhile, we turn to women to help us decide.

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Haiku Revu

MisadventuresAugust 17, 2020

A snapshot of what we’re reading right now, revealed in just 17 syllables each.

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Book Review: Man V. Nature

Zoe BalaconisJuly 21, 2020

Diane Cook’s Man v. Nature came out last year, but as happens with many short story collections, you may have missed it.  If so, I recommend you change that ...

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Liz and Manu’s Summer Reading List

Manuela AronofskyJuly 3, 2020

Brought to you by two Bay Area bookseller extraordinaires! (Trust us, we're professionals.)

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