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Donna Jackson Nakazawa — Girls on the Brink (Book Review)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Aug 4, 2022 | LEARN: Everything Else

Donna Jackson Nakazawa does it again with her upcoming book, Girls on the Brink: Helping Our Daughters Thrive in an Era of Increased Anxiety, Depression, and Social Media. She blends real-life situations with scientific knowledge and analysis. And concluding the book...

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...

Jennifer Wright — Get Well Soon (Book Review)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Mar 17, 2022 | LEARN: Chronic Illness

Jennifer Wright balances aspects of medicine, science, and social history in her 2017 book, Get Well Soon: History’s Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them. Perhaps I connected most strongly to the human and social elements because of experiencing the COVID-19...

Kevin Cook – The Burning Blue (Book Review)

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,...

Douglas Abrams & Jane Goodall — The Book of Hope (Book Review)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Sep 7, 2021 | LEARN: Everything Else

Douglas Abrams teams up with Jane Goodall to co-create The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times. It’s a record of their conversations about hope, and focuses primarily on Goodall’s four reasons to be hopeful. Abrams is a skilled interviewer and captures the...

Leigh Cowart — Hurts So Good (Book Review)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Aug 28, 2021 | LEARN: Medical Memoir

Leigh Cowart explores why people consent to experience pain in their upcoming book, Hurts So Good: The Science and Culture of Pain on Purpose. They take the science of pain and correlate it with a variety of intentional experiences from ballet class to eating wildly...

James Nestor — Breath (Book Review)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Aug 12, 2021 | LEARN: Chronic Illness

James Nestor combines scientific exploration and his own experiences in Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art. The two aspects keep the book from being entirely memoir or entirely an academic treatise. At its heart, Nestor asks why breath matters. We breathe...

Tom Nichols — The Death of Expertise (Book Review)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Aug 2, 2021 | RESIST: Politics

Tom Nichols is a credentialed expert discussing The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters in his 2017 book. No irony here. This is a serious subject that relates directly to today’s world. If you’ve spent any time discussing...

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...

The Red Lotus: A Prescient Mystery for 2020 from Chris Bohjalian (Book Review)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Dec 29, 2020 | RELAX: Mystery-Thriller

The Red Lotus is another strong entry in the mystery / thriller genre from Chris Bohjalian. And this time, he chose an oddly prescient topic for a 2020 release. The story centers around Alexis Remnick, a New York City ER doctor. She’s on a bicycling trip to Vietnam...

Rethink the Bins: Your Guide to Smart Recycling and Less Household Waste from Julia L.F. Goldstein (Book Review)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Nov 20, 2020 | LEARN: Everything Else

Julia L.F. Goldstein offers environmental research and information in her upcoming book Rethink the Bins: Your Guide to Smart Recycling and Less Household Waste. Her first book, Material Value covered a lot of manufacturing processes and a little household advice. On...

Mona Hanna-Attisha Fights for the Children in What the Eyes Don’t See (Book Review)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Nov 8, 2020 | RESIST: Social Justice

Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha wrote What the Eyes Don’t See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City to tell what happened in Flint, Michigan. But it’s not just her story. It’s the story of her clinic, her city, her state, and her country. And they are...

Robin Wall Kimmerer—Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Book Review)

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Sep 14, 2020 | LEARN: Everything Else

From indigenous American botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass is absolutely beautiful in concept and execution. It’s the perfect antidote and balm for the world of 2020. Kimmerer takes indigenous wisdom and marries it with both science and social...

Book Review: Pale Rider by Laura Spinney

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Jun 23, 2020 | LEARN: Chronic Illness

Laura Spinney covers a tremendous amount of ground with her excellent book, Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World. It’s a timely read for 2020, of course. And Spinney talks about everything from how the flu started and traveled, to how it...

Book Review: The End of Ice by Dahr Jamail

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Mar 1, 2020 | LEARN: Everything Else

Dahr Jamail is an adventurer and journalist. His 2019 book, The End of Ice: Bearing Witness and Finding Meaning in the Path of Climate Disruption, is both objective and deeply personal. Jamail has spent plenty of time exploring various parts of our world’s outdoors,...
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