Book Review: My Name Is Ten, Colleen MacMahon Book Review: My Name Is Ten, Colleen MacMahon Blog Tour August 5, 2022 Do yourself a favor. Put the name, “Colleen MacMahon” somewhere you won’t forget. Then again, I suspect she may become an author you are unlikely to forget. Regardless, put it somewhere on your […]
Book Review: Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World’s Largest Owl, Jonathan C. Slaght Nonfiction/Science: Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World’s Largest Owl, Jonathan C. Slaght I might have been vaguely aware of the existence of “fishing owls” before reading this book, […]
Series Review: The D.I. Sterling Series, Lorraine Mace Series Review: The D.I. Sterling Series, Lorraine Mace Blog Tour August 1, 2022 A quick apology first: I put August 1 on my calendar and never double checked until starting to write this review when I realized that all of the publicity said July 15. […]
Book Review: Noor, Nnedi Okorafor Science Fiction: Noor, Nnedi Okorafor The problem with living in a world where everyone has a recording device is that everything can be recorded and broadcast virtually in real time. Anwuli Okwadili prefers the nickname AO. Rather than referring to her initials, though, to Anwuli the nickname stands for […]
Book Review: A Killer Legacy: DI Barney Mains, Jim McGhee Mystery: A Killer Legacy: DI Barney Mains, Jim McGhee Blog Tour July 27, 2022 DI Barney Mains has become quite fond of Nice, France. So it is no major hardship when he is seconded to the Nice police force as a liaison to investigate crimes […]
Book Review: By Her Own Design, Piper Huguley Historical Fiction: By Her Own Design, Piper Huguley Blog Tour, July 25, 2022 I am not often drawn to fictionalized biographies of actual historical figures. Sometimes, though, they are the only way to share a life’s story when the details are obscured by history. Contemporary records […]
Book Review: The Space Between Worlds, Micaiah Johnson Science Fiction: The Space Between Worlds, Micaiah Johnson Cara is a “traverser.” Technology exists that allows people to traverse between dimensions, to visit other versions of Earth. Coming from a world with stark distinctions between the white […]
Reader Road Trip: BookFest PA Schlow Library The very first “road trip” we took after starting Scintilla in 2018 was not a very long trip for us at all. As part of our community’s Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts, the BookFest held at our local Schlow Library drew writers and readers from […]
Book Review: A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them, Neil Bradbury Nonfiction/Science: A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them, Neil Bradbury Readers and writers often joke about the dangerous Google search history of thriller writers. Explosives, armaments, far off places, creative […]
