Happy December! Hope you all had a lovely Thanksgiving (if you celebrate it) and enjoyed all the pumpkin flavors! Now it’s on to all things peppermint and gingerbread, with Christmas music playing nonstop. Here’s another week of Want It Wednesday, where I spotlight new books released this week, and there’s a big release this week … More Want it Wednesday – December 4, 2019
Official Synopsis from Goodreads: Why did Gandhi hate iodine (I, 53)? Why did the Japanese kill Godzilla with missiles made of cadmium (Cd, 48)? How did radium (Ra, 88) nearly ruin Marie Curie’s reputation? And why did tellurium (Te, 52) lead to the most bizarre gold rush in history? The periodic table is one of … More Book Review: The Disappearing Spoon by Sam Kean
Official Synopsis from Goodreads: In the bestselling tradition of Bill Bryson and Tony Horwitz, Rinker Buck’s “The Oregon Trail” is a major work of participatory history: an epic account of traveling the 2,000-mile length of the Oregon Trail the old-fashioned way, in a covered wagon with a team of mules–which hasn’t been done in a … More Book Review: The Oregon Trail by Rinker Buck
“Sailors, Lepers, Opium, Spies – with such a family history, how could we be anyt’ing but sluts?” Synopsis: Telling the history of Hawai’i throughout generations, this is a sprawling epic saga of one family. Four cousins return each summer to their grandmother’s house in Kona, and each cousin has her own story. Review: Wow. Shark … More Book Review: Shark Dialogues by Kiana Davenport
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