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“The real villain is love: an unstable isotope, constantly undergoing spontaneous nuclear decay. And it will forever go unpunished.”

Love on the Brain by Ali Hazelwood

November 28, 2022 by narfna Leave a Comment

This book was a really fun time and I liked it a lot, but I did feel there were a couple of things that didn’t fully work, so no five stars on this one. While Ali (we have met so I can call her Ali) is so good at dialogue and at characters, and character interaction, there were a couple of tropes and individual incidents that happened that made me stop reading and think to myself, really? But they didn’t hurt the overall story for […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: Ali Hazelwood, Contemporary Romance, ladies in STEM, Love on the Brain, m/f, narfna, nasa, Romance, science

narfna's CBR14 Review No:200 · Genres: Romance · Tags: Ali Hazelwood, Contemporary Romance, ladies in STEM, Love on the Brain, m/f, narfna, nasa, Romance, science ·
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“Their path to advancement might look less like a straight line and more like some of the pressure distributions and orbits they plotted, but they were determined to take a seat at the table.”

Hidden Figures by Margo Lee Shetterly

November 17, 2022 by narfna Leave a Comment

I wanted to like this book a whole lot more than I did. It was just okay. Very informative; kind of dull. I feel like a big jerk saying I liked the movie better, but I liked the movie better. I know this is an unfair comparison because the movie takes just a portion of the information in here and dramatizes it, but it’s the best bit, and the compelling narrative and much easier to follow cast of characters just makes for better story. Yes, […]

Filed Under: History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: #history, african american history, Hidden Figures, Margo Lee Shetterly, narfna, nasa, non fiction, read harder challenge 2022, science, women in STEM

narfna's CBR14 Review No:190 · Genres: History, Non-Fiction · Tags: #history, african american history, Hidden Figures, Margo Lee Shetterly, narfna, nasa, non fiction, read harder challenge 2022, science, women in STEM ·
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“I love you, I think, and you are my home”

Love on the Brain by Ali Hazelwood

October 16, 2022 by Malin Leave a Comment

CBR14 Bingo: Mind (Bee, as well as Ms. Hazelwood herself, is a neuroscientist and there’s a whole lot of brain science happening in the book) Bee Köningswasser, a young pink-haired neuroscientist, is offered pretty much her dream job on a NASA project and accepts joyfully. Her excitement is cut short when she realises that while she’s the lead on the neuroscience part, her nemesis from grad school, Levi Ward, is the engineering lead on the same project. Nevertheless, Bee can feel herself wasting away in […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery, Romance Tagged With: Ali Hazelwood, cbr14, cbr14bingo, Contemporary Romance, Love on the Brain, Malin, mind, nasa, science, STEM

Malin's CBR14 Review No:27 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Romance · Tags: Ali Hazelwood, cbr14, cbr14bingo, Contemporary Romance, Love on the Brain, Malin, mind, nasa, science, STEM ·
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Johnson isn’t all Wet

Whoosh! Lonnie Johnson’s Super-Soaking Stream of Inventions by Chris Barton

July 27, 2021 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

cbr13bingo Machinery   I wanted to do another book for Machinery (an interesting interpretation actually) but stumbled on this book by accident. I had an opportunity to read and enjoy. The definition of machinery is the parts of a non-organic/non-living item all having their place and job to do and are not organic in the way my other pick was. And Whoosh! Lonnie Johnson’s Super-Soaking Stream of Inventions is the perfect definition. Inspired by an activity Chris Barton did at a conference (you learn of […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: African American inventors, cbr13bingo, Chris Barton, Don Tate, Inventions, inventors, Lonnie Johnson, nasa, science, Super-Soaker

BlackRaven's CBR13 Review No:210 · Genres: Children's Books, History, Non-Fiction · Tags: African American inventors, cbr13bingo, Chris Barton, Don Tate, Inventions, inventors, Lonnie Johnson, nasa, science, Super-Soaker ·
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Boldly Going Where No Woman had gone before (Well, that was the Soviet Union, but the US had firsts, too)

Astronauts: Women on the Final Frontier by Jim Ottaviani

January 28, 2021 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Astronauts: Women on the Final Frontier is not just a book about the Women of Space (the ones that inspired: calling Nichelle Nichols. And the ones that took the ride: calling Sally Ride. Sorry, must do one bad pun) but how they got there and what happened once they were. We see both the men and women who boldly went where no one went before. We see those who broken color and gender lines. We see the inner workings of training, the ships themselves and […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, History, Non-Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: Aeronautics & Astronautics & Space Science, astronauts, Dr. Mary Cleave, female astronauts, Jim Ottaviani, Maris Wicks’, nasa, sally ride, Science & Technology, space, Space flight, Valentina Tereshkova

BlackRaven's CBR13 Review No:53 · Genres: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, History, Non-Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: Aeronautics & Astronautics & Space Science, astronauts, Dr. Mary Cleave, female astronauts, Jim Ottaviani, Maris Wicks’, nasa, sally ride, Science & Technology, space, Space flight, Valentina Tereshkova ·
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A very straightforward biography of a noteworthy woman.

Sally Ride: America's First Woman in Space by Lynn Sherr

March 1, 2020 by narfna Leave a Comment

Turns out I didn’t know very much at all about Sally Ride. I mean, what I knew about her was very limited, and half wrong. I knew that her name was Sally Ride, and that she was the first woman in space (she wasn’t, she was the first American woman in space; the first woman was cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, who Sally once met covertly). So this book was very interesting for me, just in terms of learning about this fascinating woman, even though the writing […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction Tagged With: #biography, astronauts, lynn sherr, narfna, nasa, non fiction, sally ride

narfna's CBR12 Review No:20 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction · Tags: #biography, astronauts, lynn sherr, narfna, nasa, non fiction, sally ride ·
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