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Dedication, by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus
Not much more depth than you'd expect from a teen series novel (ie: predictable as all get out, just for starters), but fun and engrossing. I liked the flashback stuff better than the present day stuff, for the most part - maybe the authors should just try their hands at straight out YA?
(120/250)
Mental Floss Presents Condensed Knowledge, by Will Pearson, Mangesh Hattikudur, and Elizabeth Hunt
Now, the first thing is that this book does not quite stack up to those two giants in the bathroom-reading-what's-stuffed-with-info field, namely An Incomplete Education (which has the best structure and narrative flow) and An Underground Education (which has the wackiest perspective). So you should buy those first, if you haven't already read them. But, as an aficionado of the genre, I was very pleased with this one. Interesting, amusing, and very easy to pick up and put down. Who doesn't love reading annotated lists?
(121/250)
Best American Science and Nature Writing 2006, edited by Brian Greene and Tim Folger
Greene made some excellent selections here; I was happily surprised by some of them and I really enjoyed the collection as a whole. Major props to Bennett, Sacks, and Chorost. (I was especially pleased to love the Chorost as I have been meaning to buy his book, Rebuilt: How Becoming Part Computer Made Me More Human, for ages.)
(122/250)
Not much more depth than you'd expect from a teen series novel (ie: predictable as all get out, just for starters), but fun and engrossing. I liked the flashback stuff better than the present day stuff, for the most part - maybe the authors should just try their hands at straight out YA?
(120/250)
Mental Floss Presents Condensed Knowledge, by Will Pearson, Mangesh Hattikudur, and Elizabeth Hunt
Now, the first thing is that this book does not quite stack up to those two giants in the bathroom-reading-what's-stuffed-with-info field, namely An Incomplete Education (which has the best structure and narrative flow) and An Underground Education (which has the wackiest perspective). So you should buy those first, if you haven't already read them. But, as an aficionado of the genre, I was very pleased with this one. Interesting, amusing, and very easy to pick up and put down. Who doesn't love reading annotated lists?
(121/250)
Best American Science and Nature Writing 2006, edited by Brian Greene and Tim Folger
Greene made some excellent selections here; I was happily surprised by some of them and I really enjoyed the collection as a whole. Major props to Bennett, Sacks, and Chorost. (I was especially pleased to love the Chorost as I have been meaning to buy his book, Rebuilt: How Becoming Part Computer Made Me More Human, for ages.)
(122/250)
