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Genealogy — Personal, Societal, and Professional Perspectives

by Barbara the Bibliophage | May 10, 2022 | LEARN: Everything Else

I recently read a few books that examine our individual and collective fascination with genealogy. At our house, we talk often about our ancestors and what we know or don’t know. Our son decided yesterday to start filming his dad when these discussions happen. Because...

Two Months of Witches

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Oct 31, 2022 | RELAX: Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi

Books about witches are the perfect fit for fall. I dusted off my copies of Alice Hoffman’s Practical Magic series and embarked on a two-month project. Then I read a brand-new book from Megan Giddings with a unique and thought-provoking witchy premise. Combining all...

Upgrade by Blake Crouch (Book Review)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Jul 2, 2022 | RELAX: Mystery-Thriller

Upgrade is Blake Crouch’s latest thriller and it focuses on using genetics for good or evil. Main character Logan Ramsay experiences both in the course of the story. As the son of a famous geneticist, he was a tangential part of an apocalyptic genetic failure. As a...

Libby Copeland — The Lost Family (Book Review)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Mar 19, 2022 | LEARN: Everything Else

Libby Copeland considers all the ways consumer DNA testing has changed our lives in The Lost Family: How DNA Testing is Uncovering Secrets, Reuniting Relatives, and Upending Who We Are. She interviews scientists, career genealogists, ethicists, and lots of regular...

Brit Bennett – The Vanishing Half (Book Review)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Mar 16, 2022 | RELAX: Historical Fiction

The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett is a complex and layered novel about secrets. At the center of the story are twin sisters, Stella and Desiree. Raised in small-town Louisiana, everyone around them focused on the color of their skin. The entire community of...

Steve Robinson — In the Blood (Jefferson Tayte #1) Book Review

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Sep 9, 2021 | RELAX: Mystery-Thriller

Steve Robinson taps into the genealogy craze in the first book of his Jefferson Tayte series, called In the Blood. The tracking of family trees is an inherently nerdy hobby. But, especially with the advent of DNA testing, more people are investigating than ever. And...

Sarah M. Broom: The Yellow House (Book Review)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Apr 23, 2021 | RELAX: Memoir

Sarah M. Broom creates a tour de force memoir in The Yellow House. And truthfully, it’s so much more. It’s about her family, her childhood, and the house she grew up in. But it’s also about her home city, New Orleans, including the politics, the racial divide, and the...

Book Review: Inheritance by Dani Shapiro

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Feb 18, 2020 | RELAX: Memoir

Dani Shapiro tells the true story of her DNA test journey in Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love. On a lark, she does a DNA test and unexpectedly discovers that her dad isn’t her biological father. She then allows her readers to be a fly on the...

Book Review: The Sight by Chloe Neill (Devil’s Isle, #2)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Feb 6, 2018 | RELAX: Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi

If you like an exciting urban fantasy, then The Sight by Chloe Neill is for you. I’ve enjoyed every one of her 13-book Chicagoland Vampires series. That meant that her new series, The Devil’s Isle was an easy pick for me. The Sight is book number two in that series,...

Book Review: Not My Father’s Son by Alan Cumming

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Dec 21, 2017 | RELAX: Memoir

In Not My Father’s Son, Alan Cumming writes a moving tale of intersecting lives. One of them is his own. He tells how his father and grandfather affected him, in vastly different ways. I listened on audio, and I’d recommend hearing Cumming tell his own story. His...

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