Book review ‘Rifles for Watie’ is a historical fiction novel that takes place during the American Civil War. It tells the story of a young teenage boy who leaves his house in the West to fight for his country. Throughout my reading experience, I found myself amazed with this book’s historical accuracy and attention to …
Book review I love the Beautiful Creatures books. So I needed this manga (I guess I have a soft spot for graphic novels / mangas of books I love!). Beautiful Creatures is about Ethan Wate, who lives in this town called Gatlin, and he can’t wait to go to college and finally leave town. Meanwhile …
Book review “Dread Nation”Written by Justina IrelandReview written by Diana Iozzia “Dread Nation” is a fantastic and very exciting adventure and sci-fi novel, told in post-Civil War Baltimore and the Western United States. After the Union and Confederacy soldiers perished in the war, they rose up again as the undead ‘shamblers’, which are akin to …
Book review I love the science of bees, the history of bees, woven throughout this narrative. That was my #1 reason for requesting this title – my nephew is a bee keeper, and my great-uncle before him, while I believe in letting bees live in some hidden place on my seven acres. This novel took …
Book review Because Buzzfeed is a thing, I’ve composed a list of what I’ve come to terms with by reading this book: 1. Susan Juby is my literary soul mate. She understands my humour; she ‘gets’ me. She can play with my emotions like a puppet master and it is quite possible she actually wrote …
Book review Ya gotta love Ivan. He’s big. He’s hairy. He’s completely loveable. Did I mention that he’s a four hundred pound silverback gorilla? Yep, 400 pounds… a powerhouse of pure muscle. Only problem is that Ivan’s big body is housed in a little cage with three glass walls that sits off the highway at …
Book review Throat-scratchingly realistic dystopic vision of an all-too-possible ‘what if’… I kept a water bottle to hand when reading this, and took more swigs from it than I needed, just to reassure myself I could. This latest ‘what if’ apocalypse vision shows what happens on a fairly small scale when one state in America …
Book review I really loved this book and would definitely recommend it. A main theme is the tension and interplay between ‘hard scientific inquiry’ and Indigenous ways of knowing. Kimmerer describes through many examples how Indigenous worldviews embody principles like respect for the land & reciprocity between people and plants/animals that are often disregarded in …
Book review 4.5 I’ve never been the kind to read a book before bed, either it’s bad and so I don’t feel compelled enough to read it anymore and it sits by the bedside for months on end until I feel too guilty and put it somewhere else, or I read it all in one …
Book review I was a little hesitant to pick up this title. I’ve always enjoyed natural and social histories, but I generally think of water as a background or setting for the subjects I read about rather than the story itself. David Owen’s Where the Water Goes has changed that. He takes what could easily …
Where the Water Goes: Life and Death Along the Colorado River – David Owen Read More »