These reviews are part of the Summer Library Challenge Week 6 Activity – Reviewing Library Books. These books I read all the way through, but I’m not sure how I feel about them. Because of that, these books are difficult to review. I still wanted to document my thoughts so here are a few odd notes on each. All the Birds, Singing by Evie Wyld Rating: ★★-★★★½? [ratings guide] I […]
Author: Chris Turner Title: The War on Science: Muzzled Scientists and Willful Blindness in Stephen Harper’s CanadaFormat/Source: Paperback/LibraryPublished: March 2014Publisher: Greystone BooksLength: 176 pagesGenre: Popular non-fictionWhy I Read: To learn more about scientific research in Canada + Harper’s treatment of Canadian scientistsRead If You’re: Canadian, invested in science, or interested in science+politicsQuote: See below Rating: ★★★½ [ratings guide] Links: GoodReads | Chapters | Amazon In The War on Science, Chris […]
Author: Naoki Higashida Title: The Reason I Jump Format/Source: Hardcover/Library Published: August 2013 Publisher: Random House Length: 176 pages Genre: Non-fiction question and answer Why I Read: Saw it at the bookstore, thought it would be interesting Read If You’re: Interested in learning about autism from a person with autism’s perspective Rating: ★★★ [ratings guide] There seems to be a lot of suspicion surrounding this book as to whether it […]
Author: Corey Olsen Title: Exploring J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit Format/Source: Hardcover/library Published: September 2012 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Length: 318 pages Genre: Literary analysis Why I Read: The Hobbit is one of my all-time favourite books + I enjoy reading Tolkien scholarship Read If You’re: A new fans of The Hobbit; interested in literary analysis Quote: “Even when [Bilbo] himself is facing the possibility of being devoured, the ‘idea of eating’ that […]