December 2019 – scintilla.info
Book Review: The Marrow Thieves, Cherie Dimaline Fiction: The Marrow Thieves, Cherie Dimaline The world lies in broken chaos. Global warming has destroyed the climate, redrawn coastlines, erased borders between nations and sent refugees fleeing everywhere. In The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline, these are not even the worst problems her characters face. […]
Book Review: For Small Creatures Such as We, Sasha Sagan Nonfiction: For Small Creatures Such as We, Sasha Sagan Let’s get one thing out of the way immediately: yes, Sasha Sagan is the daughter of the famous Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan. That being said, this book is not a book about the cosmos or […]
Book Review: This Is How You Lose the Time War, Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone Science Fiction: This Is How You Lose the Time War, Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone Red and Blue are agents, soldiers in a time war between two factions competing to change the past in order to secure their future. […]
Book Review: The Uninhabitable Earth, David Wallace-Wells NonFiction: The Uninhabitable Earth, David Wallace-Wells If a non-fiction book can be a horror story, David Wallace-Wells has written one with The Uninhabitable Earth. Filled with chapters titled “Heat Death,” “Hunger,” “Drowning,” etc., the book looks in depth at the various calamities our world faces as […]
Book Review: No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference, Greta Thunberg Nonfiction: No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference, Greta Thunberg Unless you have been completely hiding under a rock recently, the name Greta Thunberg is one you have heard. This teenaged Swedish activist was named Time Magazine’s Person of the […]
Book Series Review: The Red: The Trials, and Going Dark, Books 2 and 3, Linda Nagata Science Fiction/Thriller: The Red: The Trials,and Going Dark, Books 2 and 3, Linda Nagata The story of Lieutenant James Shelley and The Red continues through a trilogy of books. After the events of the first book, Shelley […]
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Book Review: The Red: First Light, Book 1, Linda Nagata Science Fiction Thriller: The Red: First Light, Book 1, Linda Nagata Lieutenant James Shelley is a very good soldier. He has a crack team and a lot of help. Cybernetic implants keep them connected to satellites, drones, and the latest intel. None of this […]
Book Review and Recipe for: An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good, Helene Tursten Book Review: An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good, Helene Tursten Sweden may be a much more dangerous place than the travel brochures imply. An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good is a collection of short stories […]
Author Spotlight: Andrew Clements, Master of the American School Story Children’s Author: Andrew Clements, May 29, 1949 – November 28, 2019 With nine books with a Christmas theme, December is a great time to read an Andrew Clements book. Start with The Last Holiday Concert, a novel of Winterhope, the last sixth grade choral […]
Book Review: The Friend, Sigrid Nunez Fiction: The Friend, Sigrid Nunez Winner of the 2018 National Book Award, The Friend is a brilliant novel about a relationship between a woman and a man…or a woman and the man’s dog…or a woman and the art of writing…or all of the above and other things as […]