Category: reviews

Kim’s mother was a prostitute and a B-girl (apparently something before strippers, they worked in bars for a commission on drinks) in pre oil boom Anchorage until she went crazy and was institutionalized. Her father hustled cards, ran whorehouses, owned gambling houses and “massage parlors,” and sold guns until he was murdered. In the book… Continue reading Book Review: Johnny's Girl, by Kim Rich

Twenty one year old Aileen catches the fancy of Slim, an Alaskan trapper who is recovering from a frosted lung in her California town. They strike up a long distance relationship, and after much correspondence Aileen takes off by ferry to join him. She falls in love with the land and the dog team, especially… Continue reading Book Review: Sisters by Aileen and Samme

The other day as I was leaning out a car window screaming, “your God is a war-mongering, son-killing sadist!” at some Godly protesters (hey, they started it), I realized: I’ve gotta write about Cunt here. But how to explain Cunt? Inga Muscio is a genius. She starts off by examining the word. Cunt. It’s meaning,… Continue reading Book Review: Cunt by Inga Muscio

This is the story of the Lykovs, a crazy Russian family who’s strict religious beliefs led them to live like like anarcho-primitivists isolated in the Russian Taiga for over thirty years. It’s very interesting for the social/religious aspects as well as the wealth of survivalist type information. The Lykov’s brought seeds with them when they dissapeared… Continue reading Book Review: Lost in the Taiga by Vasily Peskov

I just got done reading The Tao of Equus, by Linda Kohanov, and I am beyond impressed. The book starts like this: she gets a horse. By the end of the book we’ve explored creation theories, morphogenic fields, energy medicine, cognition, trauma theories, the prey mindset, and ancient Amazonian horse tribes. This is not as… Continue reading Book Review: The Tao of Equus by Linda Kohanov