Book Bites are quick looks at a book from our Guest Host readers. Try a new book this week!

And this week our Guest Host is admiring the book How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence, by Michael Pollan.

“A unique and elegant blend of science, memoir, travel writing, history, and medicine, How to Change Your Mind is a triumph of participatory journalism. By turns dazzling and edifying, it is the gripping account of a journey to an exciting and unexpected new frontier in our understanding of the mind, the self, and our place in the world. The true subject of Pollan’s “mental travelogue” is not just psychedelic drugs but also the eternal puzzle of human consciousness and how, in a world that offers us both suffering and joy, we can do our best to be fully present and find meaning in our lives.”

This is our last Book Bite for a while. Starting next Tuesday we will be doing a new quickie book suggestions podcast: Browsing Books!

In this podcast we will be giving book suggestions for our Goodreads challenge/game group: Armchair Travel to Minnesota State Parks. We provide a book prompt for each state park in Minnesota, so you can explore all kinds of new books. And in Browsing Books, we will give you a few suggestions to meet each prompt, and discuss some fun books along the way.

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