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Pithy Summary – Bulletin #45

The Non-fiction Feature: Naked Statistics by Charles Wheelan
The Children’s Spot: The Cartoon Guide to Statistics by Larry Gonick & Woollcott Smith
The Product Spot: Khan Academy

Posted byCarlenMay 2, 2025May 2, 2025Posted inArchives, Bulletins

Pithy Summary – Bulletin #43

The Non-fiction Feature: Disunited Nations by Peter Zeihan
The Fiction Spot: Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
The Product Spot: Foreign Affairs (magazine/website)

Posted byCarlenFebruary 3, 2025February 3, 2025Posted inArchives, Bulletins

Pithy Summary – Bulletin #40

The Non-fiction Feature: Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez
The Memoir Spot: The Girls Who Went Away – Ann Fessler
The Product Spot: UN Women Data Hub

Posted byCarlenSeptember 12, 2024September 12, 2024Posted inArchives, Bulletins

The Monthly Bulletin: July 2024

The Non-fiction Feature: The Beast by Oscar Martinez;
The Children’s Spot: Mama’s Nightingale by Edwidge Danticat;
The Product Spot: El Faro – Latin America’s first native internet newspaper

Posted byCarlenJuly 8, 2024July 8, 2024Posted inArchives, Bulletins

The Monthly Bulletin: June 2024

The Non-fiction Feature: Moonwalking with Einstein by Joshua Foer;
The Fiction Spot: Still Alice by Lisa Genova;
The Product Spot: Lumosity Brain Games

Posted byCarlenJune 3, 2024June 3, 2024Posted inArchives, Bulletins

The Monthly Bulletin: May 2024

The Non-fiction Feature: Palaces for the People by Eric Klinenberg;
The Memoir Spot: Your Guide to the National Parks by Michael Oswald;
The Product Spot: Detroit River Story Lab

Posted byCarlenApril 29, 2024April 29, 2024Posted inArchives, Bulletins

The Monthly Bulletin: March 2024

The Non-fiction Feature: Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond;
The Children’s Spot: Timeline by Peter Goes;
The Product Spot: A History of the World in 100 Objects (podcast)

Posted byCarlenMarch 25, 2024March 25, 2024Posted inArchives, Bulletins

The Monthly Bulletin: February 2024

The Non-fiction Feature: All the Single Ladies by Rebecca Traister
The Fiction Spot: Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus;
The Product Spot: The Golden Girls

Posted bypithysummaryFebruary 27, 2024February 27, 2024Posted inArchives, Bulletins

The Monthly Bulletin: January 2024

The Non-fiction Feature: Quiet by Susan Cain
The Children’s Spot: Ava and Pip by Carol Weston;
The Product Spot: Personality tests

Posted byCarlenJanuary 29, 2024January 29, 2024Posted inArchives, Bulletins

The Monthly Bulletin: December 2023

a list of all the books reviewed in 2023
(and my super pithy take on them)

Posted byCarlenDecember 14, 2023December 14, 2023Posted inArchives, Bulletins

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