Looking for book recs for my mom
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sasha_featherI sent a couple of books to my mom and she really enjoyed them. They were "Lab Girl" by Hope Jahren, and "Born a Crime" by Trevor Noah.
These two were such hits! I'm struggling to think of another book to send her that would be as good, and thus am seeking recommendations.
My mom likes: History, animals/plants/nature, medicine, farming and gardening, Swedish stuff, anything well-written and interesting. She's also read a couple of presidential biographies about Truman and John Adams, and I think she read and liked the book by Dr. Jan Pol, called "Never Turn your back on an Angus Cow." Fiction recs also wanted; she reads mostly main-stream fiction, not SF/F/Horror or romance.
I'm trying to avoid anything that is depressing, or about abuse or death. Bonus if a large-print text is available, though that is not necessary.
Books I'm considering, which i have not read myself:
My Journey with Maya by Tavis Smiley
Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder
These two were such hits! I'm struggling to think of another book to send her that would be as good, and thus am seeking recommendations.
My mom likes: History, animals/plants/nature, medicine, farming and gardening, Swedish stuff, anything well-written and interesting. She's also read a couple of presidential biographies about Truman and John Adams, and I think she read and liked the book by Dr. Jan Pol, called "Never Turn your back on an Angus Cow." Fiction recs also wanted; she reads mostly main-stream fiction, not SF/F/Horror or romance.
I'm trying to avoid anything that is depressing, or about abuse or death. Bonus if a large-print text is available, though that is not necessary.
Books I'm considering, which i have not read myself:
My Journey with Maya by Tavis Smiley
Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder
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Date: 2020-09-04 04:02 am (UTC)Back to rec a forthcoming book that sounds cool, but I haven't read it: Iwígara, the Kinship of Plants and People: American Indian Ethnobotanical Traditions and Science by Enrique Salmón. (Timber, $34.95 (248p) ISBN 978-1-6046-9880-0)
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Date: 2020-09-04 04:02 am (UTC)