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Hope Jahren — The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here (Book Review)

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...

From Paramahansa Yogananda: Autobiography of a Yogi—A Classic Memoir

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,...

Book Review: The DNA of Democracy by Richard C. Lyons

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...

Book Review: Your Heart is the Sea by Nikita Gill

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...

Book Review: Angel Time by Anne Rice

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...

Book Review: Fierce Fairytales by Nikita Gill

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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