by Barbara the Bibliophage | May 22, 2022 | LEARN: Everything Else
Amanda Montell explores the unique ways cults use language to control their followers in her 2021 book Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism. As you’d expect, she includes the phenomenon of some well-known quasi-religious organizations like Scientology and Jim Jones’...
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...
by Barbara the Bibliophage | Dec 5, 2021 | RESIST: Social Justice
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration is Isabel Wilkerson’s first tour de force, published in 2010. Her second is Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, which I reviewed earlier this year. Reading them in reverse order didn’t change the...
by Barbara the Bibliophage | Sep 15, 2021 | LEARN: Everything Else
Kevin Cook does the narrative nonfiction genre proud in The Burning Blue: The Untold Story of Christa McAuliffe and NASA’s Challenger Disaster. His story of America’s Teacher in Space and the whole Challenger story kept me absorbed on every page. Once I started,...
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