Bits and pieces from our little corner of Texas.
This book could be a good choice for any pre-teen fantasy buff in your life, especially if they like to spend all their time daydreaming about their very own pet dragon or doodling little made-up creatures in the corner of homework assignments.
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Maybe it didn’t live up to my high expectations, but I’m glad I gave this book a try anyway.
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All in all, I’m glad I read it (well, listened to it, but I think it still counts as reading), but I can’t say it’ll ever be a real favorite.
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This is such a fun book!
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Headstrong is a lovely little collection of profiles of lady scientists who probably don’t get enough credit for their contributions to our world.
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This is not exactly a stand out in the Unladylike Young Ladies Go Adventuring division of the historical fiction genre, but I’m glad I didn’t give up on it at the beginning because it turned out to be a quite fun, satisfying little story.
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My subconscious is apparently supremely masochistic.
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Forbidden romances. Unexpected dangers. Anthropomorphized human conditions. Throw in a little jazz music and you’ve got the recipe for The Game of Love and Death.
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This is a decent pop-sci introduction to modern hypotheses regarding mass extinction events and evolutionary mechanisms, with a bit of “humans are probably going to accidentally suicide as a species” thrown in for funsies.
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I was impressed by the tension and darkness of The Walls Around Us.
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