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Look Up with Me: Neil deGrasse Tyson: A Life Among the Stars by Jenifer Berne

March 27, 2019 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

I am not a fan of Neil deGrasse Tyson mostly because I am unfamiliar with his work (and I have heard rumors about a less-than-friendly personality). However, putting aside any bias I might have, I tackled Look Up with Me: Neil deGrasse Tyson: A Life Among the Stars as if it was any other book. After all, Jenifer Berne’s book did not interest me because of the subject, but because of Lorraine Nam’s illustrations. Paper artist Lorraine Nam’s cover is fascinating. The bold color of the yellow grabs the eye and pulls you into the blue below. And inside things […]

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3/27/2019 | BlackRaven's CBR11 Review No:94 |

The sun and this book are kind of a really big deal

The Sun is Kind of a Big Deal by Nick Suluk

October 17, 2018 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

With permission, I have borrowed this line from a Goodreads review (but not this book): “I don’t think that I have any coherent thoughts at the moment.” I feel the same way about The Sun is Kind of a Big Deal. Not because it is sweet or thoughtful, but because I was laughing too hard to think! You ask, “Did she say laughing?” Yes, I was laughing so hard I thought I was going to fall out of my chair! “Is it really that funny?” Yes, it is that funny! Of course, the fact that the sun wears sunglasses, and […]

10/17/2018 BlackRaven's CBR10 Review No:389 |

If Sam Kean had been around when I went to school, I might have majored in Science

Caesar's Last Breath: Decoding the Secrets of the Air Around Us by Sam Kean

October 22, 2017 by KimMiE" Leave a Comment

I’m not sure at what point in my adult life I decided I love science, but if I had been able to read books by Sam Kean when I was in school, I might have come to this conclusion at a much younger age. Then again, I think the interest has always been there (at one point I thought I would be a zoologist, because I liked animals), but the knowledge didn’t seem accessible to me. Whether it was because I was a girl and thought I just couldn’t “do science,” or because I excelled at literature, I went in […]

10/22/2017 KimMiE"'s CBR9 Review No:20 |

A truly stunning sci-fi book for the ages

Seveneves by Neal Stephenson

November 30, 2015 by alwaysanswerb 2 Comments

Wow, this book. There are a few technical elements that initially justified me wanting to leave off the fifth star, but the sheer audacity of the story and the fact that I cannot stop thinking about it a month later make Seveneves one of my favorite books of the year, and certainly the most thought-provoking. Effortlessly checking off a list of “stuff I want in a sci-fi novel,” Seveneves is technical and speculative, extrapolating from cutting-edge current science to detail seemingly inevitable future technology. Equally imagining the progression of astronomy, physics, and genetics, Stephenson obviously did an astounding amount of […]

11/30/2015 alwaysanswerb's CBR7 Review No:108 |

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