“Spacecraft and Rockets: Photographs from the Archives of NASA”
Spacecraft and Rockets: Photographs from the Archives of NASA by NASAMy rating: 5 of 5 starsJust lovely. Amazing NASA photos accompanied by succinct and yet informative text annotations that give...
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Dark Lord of Derkholm by Diana Wynne JonesMy rating: 5 of 5 starsThe feel of this book reminded me of Terry Pratchett - and coming from me, it’s quite a praise. Just like Pratchett, this is marketed as...
View Article“The Ocean World” by Jacques-Yves Cousteau
The Ocean World by Jacques-Yves CousteauMy rating: 5 of 5 starsI was about 8 or 9 when, flipping through all 4 channels on my grandma’s TV in boredom, I stumbled upon “The Cousteau Odyssey”, and I was...
View Article“Normal People” by Sally Rooney
Normal People by Sally RooneyMy rating: 3 of 5 starsMy first acquaintance with Sally Rooney, Beautiful World, Where Are You, was, to put it mildly, on the borderline between underwhelming and...
View Article“The Lesser Bohemians” by Eimear McBride
The Lesser Bohemians by Eimear McBrideMy rating: 5 of 5 starsIn the first few pages I felt like I needed to learn to read again. Is it poetry, I wondered for a few sentences in horrified dread. What is...
View Article“Year of the Griffin” by Diana Wynne Jones
Year of the Griffin by Diana Wynne JonesMy rating: 3 of 5 stars “Forget your childhood. It’s over,” said Blade. “You can be a wizard now and go anywhere and do anything you want.” It was quite...
View Article“Voices from the Moon: Apollo Astronauts Describe Their Lunar Experiences” by...
Voices from the Moon: Apollo Astronauts Describe Their Lunar Experiences by Andrew ChaikinMy rating: 5 of 5 stars “I’d been eating, sleeping, and breathing it for seven years. I was supposed to be...
View Article“Daily Life in Medieval Europe” by Jeffrey L. Singman
Daily Life in Medieval Europe by Jeffrey L. SingmanMy rating: 5 of 5 starsI don’t know why reading the details of daily life in the past, especially medieval world, fascinates me so. Perhaps the past...
View Article“Sleeping Worlds Have No Memory” by Yaroslav Barsukov
Sleeping Worlds Have No Memory by Yaroslav BarsukovMy rating: 4 of 5 starsA few years back when I read Yaroslav Barsukov’s Nebula-nominated novella Tower of Mud and Straw I remember wishing the author...
View Article“The Lost World of the Dinosaurs” by Armin Schmitt
The Lost World of the Dinosaurs: Uncovering the Secrets of the Prehistoric Age by Armin SchmittMy rating: 4 of 5 starsOf course dinosaurs are absolutely fascinating, and no matter how many books about...
View Article“Is Anyone Listening?” by Denise L. Herzing
Is Anyone Listening?: What Animals Are Saying to Each Other and to Us by Denise L. HerzingMy rating: 3 of 5 starsApparently it’s much harder than it seems to try to communicate with non-human and...
View Article“The Anthropocene Reviewed” by John Green
The Anthropocene Reviewed by John GreenMy rating: 3 of 5 starsOn a site that reviews books on a five-star scale, I am going to review a book that is a collection of quite personal essays masquerading...
View Article“Strange Hotel” by Eimear McBride
Strange Hotel by Eimear McBrideMy rating: 4 of 5 stars “She should and should not think of this. If the past comes in it will wring her neck. So, she prevails upon her memory to recollect it as though...
View Article“Simple Passion” by Annie Ernaux
Simple Passion by Annie ErnauxMy rating: 3 of 5 stars “It occurred to me that writing should also aim for that—the impression conveyed by sexual intercourse, a feeling of anxiety and stupefaction, a...
View Article“Nothing to See Here” by Kevin Wilson
Nothing to See Here by Kevin WilsonMy rating: 3 of 5 starsThis was unexpectedly fun and adorable and even with a little bit of bite to it to make the adorable not too cloyingly sweet. That little bit...
View Article“The Postcard” by Anne Berest
The Postcard by Anne BerestMy rating: 4 of 5 stars ‘I can’t forget them. If I do, there will be no one left to remember that they ever existed.’ Anne Berest’s reconstruction of the lives of her family...
View Article“We Solve Murders” by Richard Osman
We Solve Murders by Richard OsmanMy rating: 3 of 5 stars “It’s not every daughter-in-law who will high-five you when you’ve shot a drug dealer in a Coldplay T-shirt, is it?” This was so much unabashed...
View Article“Deep Secret” by Diana Wynne Jones
Deep Secret by Diana Wynne JonesMy rating: 2 of 5 starsA book centered around a science fiction convention in a hotel that sees rectangles having at least eight right angles should have been great,...
View Article“Wolves of the Calla” by Stephen King
Wolves of the Calla by Stephen KingMy rating: 4 of 5 stars “It was the possibility of darkness that made the day seem so bright.” And here we have yet another Great American Novel from Stephen King....
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