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 […]
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Book Review: The Uninhabitable Earth, David Wallace-Wells
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
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 Review: The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu, Joshua Hammer
Book Review: The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu, Joshua Hammer Nonfiction: The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu, Joshua Hammer Admit it: the title caught your attention. It caught mine, too. Fortunately, the contents of the book live up to the boldness of the title. The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu tells the story of Abdel Kader Haidara and […]
Book Review: The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books, Edward Wilson-Lee
Book Review: The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books, Edward Wilson-Lee Biography: The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books, Edward Wilson-Lee In 1492, Christopher Columbus set sail from Spain to find western route to China and the Indies. As everyone knows, what he found instead was what became known as the “New World,” lands full of new people, […]
Book Review: The Orchid Thief, Susan Orlean
Book Review: The Orchid Thief, Susan Orlean Nonfiction: The Orchid Thief, Susan Orlean John LaRoche is described by author Susan Orlean as “the most moral amoral person” she’s ever known. When she first met him he was on trial for leading an expedition into the Fakahatchee swamp to collect rare ghost orchids. LaRoche told the […]
Book Review: Martin Rising: Requiem for a King, Andrea D. Pinkney
Book Review: Martin Rising: Requiem for a King, Words by Andrea Davis Pinkney and Illustrations by Brian Pinkney Poetry: Martin Rising: Requiem for a King, Andrea Davis Pinkney Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated on April 4, 1968. Three days later, I turned two years old. I only say that to put my age into […]
Book Review: Hidden Figures, Margot Lee Shetterly
Book Review: Hidden Figures, Margot Lee Shetterly Nonfiction Biography: Hidden Figures, Margot Lee Shetterly When America entered World War II, it did so with an aviation industry that was only the seventeenth largest industry in the US. Before the end of the war, US aviation was the largest industry in the world. Some of the […]
Booklist: 10 Books for a Reading Roadtrip Across America
Booklist: 10 Books for a Reading Roadtrip Across America Scintilla.info has been proudly international from the beginning, intentionally seeking books and authors from around the world. But we are based in the United States. Given that our country celebrates her birthday on July 4th, we decided to highlight some books that we have reviewed […]
Book Review: The Lost Gutenberg, Margaret Leslie Davis
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 […]