by Barbara the Bibliophage | Feb 4, 2021 | LEARN: Everything Else
Hope Jahren developed the crux of The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where We Go from Here as an introductory class for college students. And fundamentally, it reads this way. There’s a lot of science, some history, a bit of humor, and a smattering of...
by Barbara the Bibliophage | Sep 27, 2020 | RELAX: Memoir
Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda is exactly that. Yogananda details episodes in his spiritual and bodily life from childhood until the book’s publication around 1945. The stories are wide-ranging and vary between India and the U.S. But primarily,...
by Barbara the Bibliophage | Aug 7, 2019 | LEARN: Everything Else
Richard C. Lyons takes on an ambitious project in his history book, The DNA of Democracy. It begins with Egyptian Pharaohs and ends in the early 20th century. And at just over 375 pages, it’s impossible for the author to provide extensive detail on any one time period...
by Barbara the Bibliophage | Jul 7, 2019 | RELAX: Other Relaxation
Nikita Gill is a twenty-something poet, of British-Indian heritage. She’s an Instagram poet, which is a social media phenomenon of the our new century. And, as such, I’m not really her audience.But, since I read another of her books earlier this year, her publisher...
by Barbara the Bibliophage | Feb 5, 2019 | RELAX: Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
In Angel Time, Anne Rice tells the story of a present-day hit man, a former parochial school student. The narrator is his guardian angel. After learning about his depressing descent from down on his luck school boy to a life of crime, we meet said angel. And together...
by Barbara the Bibliophage | Jan 26, 2019 | RELAX: Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, RESIST: Feminism
Nikita Gill puts an adult, mostly feminist spin on common fairytales and legends in her collection, titled Fierce Fairytales: Poems and Stories to Stir Your Soul. For me, though, the content wasn’t as stirring as promised.Gill uses various points of view, including...
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