reviews

Nancy Drew in the Wild West Author: Carolyn Keene As a pre-teen, The Secret of Shadow Ranch was one of my favorite Nancy Drew adventures. When I settled into my childhood home, reading on my comfy bed under the open eyebrow window with the giant sycamore rustling excited leaves outside, Nancy’s western adventure caught me in a way none of her previous forays had. Now, at thirty, I still remember this vividly. Under the spell of returning nostalgia, helped by fall days and the colorful faces of mums, I’ve once again taken a Wild West journey with Nancy where outlaws, [...]

Reality waits for no man... Author:  Carlo Rovelli It’s hard to imagine how we could live without it.  There may be nothing more basic to our daily experience than the concept of time.  But much as Copernicus showed that the seemingly solid and stationary ground on which we walk is actually hurtling and spinning through space, the passage of time is also an illusion of our own making.  “Says who?” you might ask.  “A theoretical physicist named Carlo Rovelli,” I would answer.  There may be no writer who can so coherently and concisely illuminate the mysteries of the quantum world.  [...]

The Lonliness of Gods Author: Madeline Miller I lucked into discovering Circe through Book of the Month and instantly knew it had to be mine. Many cheerful childhood hours were spent devoted to Greek mythology – its creativity and power a shining testament to imagination and emotion. The Odyssey, the story of Odysseus who seeks his way home from a bloody ten year war for Helen of Troy, is wrought with encounters ranging from fights with a cannibal cyclops to encounters with beautiful but dangerous witches to direct interference from the fickle gods themselves. And in this story there is [...]