Tag: Non-Fiction

• Weekly Reflections #9

  In which we return from a break. A few notes from our 3-year delayed honeymoon in New Zealand: Some generic honeymoon stuff: It was great! Michelle said it best about NZ: it’s like if you took all of the natural wonder of the US and then compressed it into one state. It’s insanely beautiful. Writing…

  Travis Packer

  March 18, 2023

  Books, Music, Reflections, Television

  Anthony Doerr, Cloud Cuckoo Land, Daisy Jones and the Six, Fiction, Michael Cox, New Zealand, Non-Fiction, Reflections, Taylor Jenkins Reid, Zonal Marking

• Favorite Books of 2022

  This is a short list of my favorite books I read in 2022 (not necessarily released this year). I’ll add a short blurb if I have anything insightful to say about the book, but I’m not a literary critic and I struggled in all of my (3) college English courses so you can take everything…

  Travis Packer

  January 2, 2023

  Books

  Chuck Klosterman, Favorites 2022, Fiction, Inez Ribustello, JRR Tolkien, Lizzy Goodman, Mary Beth Keane, Min Jin Lee, Non-Fiction, Peter Senge, Ryan O'Hanlon, T.J. Klune, Thomas Perry

• Favorite Non-Fiction of 2021

  Tiny Habits by B.J. Fogg There’s a lot to love about this book, and I’ll share a longer post about this in the new year, but for me the biggest distinction Fogg makes is around motivation and willpower. Here’s his basic point: “People are always looking for ways to ramp [motivation and willpower] up and…

  Travis Packer

  December 25, 2021

  Books

  B.J. Fogg, Bessel van der Kolk, Bill James, Casey Cep, David Zucchino, Favorites 2021, Isabel Wilkerson, Jason Schreier, Michael Lewis, Non-Fiction, Rachel McCarthy James, Resmaa Menakem, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz