The DigitaLook Reads

As we say good bye to 2023, we end our first season with Katherine May's Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times. In Wintering, Katherine May recounts her own year-long journey through winter, sparked by a sudden illness in her family that plunged her into a time of uncertainty and seclusion. This beautiful, perspective-shifting memoir teaches us to draw from the healing powers of the natural world and to embrace the winters of our own lives.

AI is everywhere. This month, join us as we dive into the wonderful world of artificial intelligence with Janelle Shane's You Look Like a Thing and I Love You: How Artificial Intelligence Works and Why It’s Making the World a Weirder Place. A comprehensive study of the cutting-edge technology that will soon  power our world, the book is an accessible, hilarious exploration of the future of technology and society.

It’s Halloween! Get cozy, grab a book and enjoy this Fall delight. Our second book of this month features Pumpkinheads by Rainbow Rowell and illustrated by artist Faith Erin Hicks. This tender and hilarious story looks at the adventures of two irresistible teens as they discover what it means to leave behind a place--and a person--with no regrets. 

Hockey is back and so are we! After a much needed summer break, we’re back for another episode of The DigitaLook Reads, a podcast about books hosted by Savanna and Miss N. This month, we have a doubleheader! Our first book features Hannah Grace’s Icebreaker. Listen to us talk about hockey, romance, and everything in between. 

Tune in to hear two digital experts discuss 12 books throughout 2023! July features Finding the Mother Tree by Suzanne Simard. This book explores a moving, deeply personal journey of discovery from the world’s leading forest ecologist who forever changed how people view trees and their connections to one another and to other living things in the forest.

Tune in to hear two digital experts discuss 12 books throughout 2023! June features The Wonder Paradox by Jennifer Michael Hecht. This book offers a lively, practical, and transcendent road map to meaning and connection through poetry.

Tune in to hear two digital experts discuss 12 books throughout 2023! May features Oliver Burkeman's Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals. The book is an entertaining, humorous, practical, and ultimately profound guide to time and time management.

Tune in to hear two digital experts discuss 12 books throughout 2023! April features Gabrielle Zevin's Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow. This book explores the story of two friends—often in love, but never lovers—and how they come together as creative partners in the world of video game design, where success brings them fame, joy, tragedy, duplicity, and, ultimately, a kind of immortality.

Tune in to hear two digital experts discuss 12 books throughout 2023! March features Lisa Olivera's Already Enough: A Path to Self-Acceptance. This book explores how our stories affect us — often much more than we realize. She guides us through reframing our stories so we can remember that we are already enough, just as we are.

Tune in to hear two digital experts discuss 12 books throughout 2023! February features Toshikazu Kawaguchi's Before the Coffee Gets Cold. This book explores the age-old question: what would you do if you could travel back in time? More importantly, who would you want to meet, maybe for one last time?

Tune in to hear two digital experts discuss 12 books throughout 2023! January features Natasha Lunn's Conversations on Love. The book is an investigation of love in all its forms.