June 2019 – scintilla.info
Quote: Literacy is the most basic currency of the knowledge economy. Barack Obama Quote: Literacy is the most basic currency of the knowledge economy. Barack Obama Also see Quote: At the moment that we persuade a child, any child, to cross that threshold, that magic threshold into a library, we change their lives forever, for […]
Quote: At the moment that we persuade a child, any child, to cross that threshold, that magic threshold into a library, we change their lives forever, for the better. It’s an enormous force for good. — Barack Obama Quote: At the moment that we persuade a child, any child, to cross that threshold, that magic […]
Book Review: Spinning Silver: A Novel, Naomi Novik Fantasy: Spinning Silver, Naomi Novik I didn’t particularly like Prince Casimir. He’d come to stay at my father’s house once, and I’d been beneath his notice, so he hadn’t been on his best behavior….He was nearly my father’s age, and a man who lived almost entirely on […]
Book Review: A Natural History of Dragons, The Lady Trent Memoirs Book 1, Marie Brennan Fantasy: A Natural History of Dragons, Marie Brennan Lady Trent is a naturalist, an expert in dragons. For a woman to accomplish this in a Victorian-type society is no small accomplishment. It is little wonder, then, that her autobiography would […]
Book Review: The Lost Gutenberg: The Astounding Story of One Book’s Five-Hundred-Year Odyssey, Margaret Leslie Davis Nonfiction: The Lost Gutenberg: The Astounding Story of One Book’s Five-Hundred-Year Odyssey, Margaret Leslie Davis On October 14, 1950, an ordinary wooden box arrives at the southern California home of Estelle Doheny. Inside the box, wrapped almost carelessly by […]
Book Review: The Swimmer, Joakim Zander Thriller: The Swimmer, Joakim Zander A young mother, killed in an explosion meant for her deep cover CIA lover. Their baby, left on the steps of the Swedish embassy. A man, tortured for decades by the decisions he made back then. That is the backdrop for Joakim Zander’s […]
Book Review: Foxglove Summer, Rivers of London Book 5, Ben Aaronovitch Fantasy: Foxglove Summer, Rivers of London Book 5, Ben Aaronovitch This fifth installment of the DC Peter Grant series of books brings London’s very most junior detective wizard to the country. Two young girls, age 11, have gone missing. Since on very […]
Book Review: Broken Homes, Rivers of London Book 4, Ben Aaronovitch Book Review: Broken Homes, Rivers of London Book 4, Ben Aaronovitch Detective Peter Grant is becoming stronger in his magical powers, more confident in his detective work, but still is not allowed to drive DCI Nightingale’s jaguar around the streets of London. Nor is […]
Quote: Children are made readers on the laps of their parents. — Emilie Buchwald Quote: Children are made readers on the laps of their parents. — Emilie Buchwald
Book Review: Whispers Underground, Rivers of London Book 3, Ben Aaronovitch Book Review: Whispers Underground, Rivers of London Book 3, Ben Aaronovitch Peter Grant got his start in the police department that handles magic by interviewing a ghost who witnessed a murder. So when a young girl who lives near his parent’s apartment says […]