Book Review: Heart Berries, Terese Marie Mailhot Memoir: Heart Berries, Terese Marie Mailhot Terese Marie Mailhot is many things. A writer. A member of a First Nation who grew up on a reservation. A survivor of sexual abuse. A single parent. A foster child. Someone who has lived with mental illness, including hospitalization, pharmacological treatments, and therapy. […]
Month: February 2019
Book Review: Past Tense: A Jack Reacher Novel, Lee Child
Book Review: Past Tense: A Jack Reacher Novel, Lee Child Thriller: Past Tense: A Jack Reacher Novel, Lee Child Jack Reacher is 6’5” and looks nothing like Tom Cruise. That has not stopped Cruise from playing the character in two movies, and I really can’t blame author Lee Child. Honestly, if I wrote a book […]
Rise of the Necrofauna: The Science, Ethics, and Risks of De-Extinction, Britt Wray
Book Review: Rise of the Necrofauna: The Science, Ethics, and Risks of De-Extinction, Britt Wray Science: Rise of the Necrofauna: The Science, Ethics, and Risks of De-Extinction, Britt Wray Several months prior to starting Scintilla.Info, I encountered a brilliant book exploring the possibilities of restoring extinct species. When my wife proposed and began Scintilla, I […]
Booklist: Black History Month February 2019
Celebrate Black History Month February 2019 African American and other black authors on Scintilla from April, 2018-February, 2019 Book Review: An Unkindness of Ghosts, Rivers Solomon Book Series Review: Binti, Nnedi Okorafor Book Review: Trail of Lightning, Rebecca Roanhorse (NOTE: Rebecca Roanhorse primarily identifies as Native American, but she does […]
Book Review: Heads of the Colored People, Nafissa Thompson-Spires
Book Review: Heads of the Colored People, Nafissa Thompson-Spires Story Collection: Heads of the Colored People, Nafissa Thompson-Spires Heads of the Colored People is a powerful collection of short stories exploring concepts of identity, class, race, body-image, and love among African Americans. Sometimes funny, sometimes gut-wrenching, always provocative, Nafissa Thompson-Spires uses powerful and piercing language […]
Book Review: Akata Witch, Nnedi Okorafor
Book Review: Akata Witch, Nnedi Okorafor Fantasy: Akata Witch, Nnedi Okorafor “My name is Sunny Nwazue and I confuse people.” That may be one of the best lines I’ll ever read introducing a character. Sunny is many things. An American girl growing up in Nigeria, the daughter of two Igbo parents. An albino. And as […]
Book Review: Children of Blood and Bone, Tomi Adeyemi
Book Review: Children of Blood and Bone, Tomi Adeyemi Fantasy: Children of Blood and Bone, Tomi Adeyemi Zelie’s mother was killed because she had magic. Many people were killed during The Raid, when magic disappeared from the world and those who once had used it were targeted by the king. Since that fateful night all those […]
Book Review: Invisible, Stephen L. Carter
Book Review: Invisible: The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America’s Most Powerful Mobster, Stephen L. Carter Nonfiction History/Biography: Invisible: The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America’s Most Powerful Mobster, Stephen L. Carter Stephen L. Carter is a novelist and a law professor at Yale. That […]
Book Review: Washington Black, Esi Edugyan
Book Review: Washington Black, Esi Edugyan Historical Fiction: Washington Black, Esi Edugyan Some characters deserve to walk out of their books and live in your heart. Washington Black transcends the pages of his own novel. Esi Edugyan made the shortlist for the Man Booker prize (and several others) with this story of a young man who was […]
Book Review: Kingdom of Needle and Bone, Mira Grant
Book Review: Kingdom of Needle and Bone, Mira Grant Science Fiction: Kingdom of Needle and Bone, Mira Grant Morris Disease was named after the first victim, little Lisa Morris, age 8. A variant of measles, Morris Disease is highly contagious, often fatal, and has the additional terrible feature of resetting the body’s immune system. Anyone […]