“Basin and Range” by John McPhee
Basin and Range by John McPheeMy rating: 5 of 5 starsIf you had told me that I’d absolutely adore a nonfiction book about geology, a book now over 40 years old, I would have seriously doubted your...
View Article“Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth’s Extinct Worlds” by Thomas Halliday
Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds by Thomas HallidayMy rating: 4 of 5 stars“The worlds of the past can sometimes seem unimaginably distant.”On the timescale of life on Earth, our...
View Article“City of Miracles” by Robert Jackson Bennett
City of Miracles by Robert Jackson BennettMy rating: 5 of 5 stars “To live with hatred,” says Sigrud, “is like grabbing hot embers to throw them at someone you think an enemy. Who gets burned the...
View Article“James” by Percival Everett
James by Percival EverettMy rating: 2 of 5 starsI am very cautious with book reimaginings since, honestly, most of the time they are quite unneeded — but here the idea of it indeed seemed necessary. I...
View Article“A Good Bad Boy: Luke Perry and How a Generation Grew Up” by Margaret Wappler
A Good Bad Boy: Luke Perry and How a Generation Grew Up by Margaret WapplerMy rating: 2 of 5 starsOf course I had a crush on Luke Perry’s iconic character Dylan McKay in Beverly Hills 90210. I mean, I...
View Article“Breath” by Tim Winton
Breath by Tim WintonMy rating: 3 of 5 starsI’ve never been an adrenaline junkie. No, thanks. Facing my own mortality just makes me feel dread and not that rush that gets others addicted. I never needed...
View Article“The Menopause Manifesto” by Jen Gunter
The Menopause Manifesto: Own Your Health with Facts and Feminism by Jen GunterMy rating: 4 of 5 stars “Women are so much more than just their ovaries, so it’s important to sit back and look at the...
View Article“Death in the Spires” by K.J. Charles
Death in the Spires by K.J. CharlesMy rating: 4 of 5 stars “That was a foul thought, planning to trap his friends into admissions, but they weren’t his friends any more, and one of them had murdered...
View Article“Alien Earths: The New Science of Planet Hunting in the Cosmos” by Lisa...
Alien Earths: The New Science of Planet Hunting in the Cosmos by Lisa KalteneggerMy rating: 4 of 5 stars “So yes, Luke Skywalker could have enjoyed a warm day under two suns—but I always wondered where...
View Article“The Brides of High Hill” by Nghi Vo
The Brides of High Hill by Nghi VoMy rating: 3 of 5 starsNghi Vo’s The Singing Hills novellas from the beginning have centered on the stories as they are remembered and retold and lived out. Their...
View Article“Assembling California” by John McPhee
Assembling California by John McPheeMy rating: 5 of 5 stars “The two time scales—the one human and emotional, the other geologic—are so disparate. But a sense of geologic time is the most important...
View Article“The Forgotten Beasts of Eld” by Patricia McKillip
The Forgotten Beasts of Eld by Patricia A. McKillipMy rating: 4 of 5 starsThis book ended up being nothing like I expected — which is great since my expectations would not have done it justice. "You...
View Article“Qualityland” by Marc-Uwe Kling
Qualityland by Marc-Uwe KlingMy rating: 1 of 5 starsI have a lukewarm relationship with satire in general. But in the case of this book I think its not me at fault but actually the book...
View Article“The Ocean Speaks” by Matt Porteous and Tamsin Raine
The Ocean Speaks: A photographic journey of discovery and hope by Matt PorteousMy rating: 4 of 5 starsThe Ocean Speaks is full of reverence and concern for the oceans and marine life. It has so many...
View Article“The Language of the Night” by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Language of the Night: Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy by Ursula K. Le GuinMy rating: 4 of 5 starsI have said before that I love Ursula K. LeGuin’s nonfiction as much, and sometimes...
View Article“Service Model” by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Service Model by Adrian TchaikovskyMy rating: 4 of 5 starsAdrian Tchaikovsky’s Service Model is a love child of a very long parable and a philosophy treatise, but written as a riff on quite a few...
View Article“Coming into the Country” by John McPhee
Coming into the Country: Travels in Alaska by John McPheeMy rating: 4 of 5 starsThis was the first non-geology McPhee book for me — and a test to see whether I started to find geology fascinating or...
View Article“House of Open Wounds” by Adrian Tchaikovsky
House of Open Wounds by Adrian TchaikovskyMy rating: 5 of 5 starsI loved this book, although I do realize it will not be everyone’s cup of tea. It’s very long, and is not as much plot-driven as just...
View Article“Manned and Unmanned Flights to the Moon” by Terry C. Treadwell
Manned and Unmanned Flights to the Moon by Terry C. TreadwellMy rating: 3 of 5 starsIt’s hard to believe that it’s been 55 years since Apollo 11 mission landed on the moon, with Neil Armstrong taking...
View Article“The Secret History of Sharks: The Rise of the Ocean’s Most Fearsome...
The Secret History of Sharks: The Rise of the Ocean's Most Fearsome Predators by John LongMy rating: 4 of 5 starsSharks. 465 million years of history, which, as I must admit, until this book for me was...
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