Y’all I am still like 22 reviews behind. How do I do this to myself?!? So this was a super cute book about science — think Neil Degrasse Tyson’s Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, but with cartoon. Also like Neil Degrasse Tyson’s Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, I won’t even pretend I understood it all. But it was still fun to read and definitely cleared up the fact that space is just like, really, really big guys.
Read it before the movie comes out!
I found this one a little predictable, as in, I guessed the “surprises” ending pretty quickly. But that in NO WAY detracted from my enjoyment of the novel, which is full of secrets and twists along the way. The book also raises some pretty interesting questions, especially about adoption and ethnicity. Little Fires Everywhere starts with Izzy Richardson burning down her family’s house, and backs up from there. The Richardsons are a wealthy family living in the planned community of Shaker Heights. Then Mia and […]
“The Jon Stewart of the Arabic World”
Although I’ve heard Bassem Youssef referred to as “The Jon Stewart of the Arabic World”, I honestly didn’t know too much about him prior to reading this book. I used to be a die hard Daily Show fanatic, but I sort of stopped watching when Jon went on sabbatical and never went back. Reading Revolution for Dummies definitely enlightened me on quite a bit, but the book itself was not as interesting as I expected/hoped. Youssef, a plastic surgeon in Egypt, risked life and limb to host a satirical […]
Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries
Yay for dictionaries! This book is funny and smart and so geeky and I loved it. I want to be Kory Stamper’s bff. “We think of English as a fortress to be defended, but a better analogy is to think of English as a child. We love and nurture it into being, and once it gains gross motor skills, it starts going exactly where we don’t want it to go: it heads right for the goddamned electrical sockets. We dress it in fancy clothes and […]