by Lauren Redniss
Sometimes, I have to think for a while -- or a long while -- about how I would "rate" a book. And sometimes, I just know as soon as I close the cover. Today was one of those days. This "graphic history" hit my emotional, intellectual, and artistic buttons in all the right ways, and as soon as I c...
When I was in second grade, I was bored and my teacher did what all good teachers do when they have students who are bored in class: she assigned me a research project.My research project was on Marie and Pierre Curie.Here I was, seven years old, reading about radiation and atomic particles and nucl...
This book was an absolutely brilliant gift from a friend of mine for my birthday. She heard someone talking about it on the radio and thought, holy hell, who can I give this to? (Or possibly she doesn't cuss so much in her mind.) C'est moi! And I absolutely want to eat the physical book, and the ide...
Just put it on hold at the library!
I loved this book - and by that I mean the physical book. The texture, the colors, the drawings and the fact that it glows in the dark are among the the things I enjoyed. Really, it GLOWS in the dark.The information in the book reads like observations and fun facts distributed among the drawings. It...
A couple of thoughts.1. More adult works of nonfiction should be like gorgeous picture books. This isn't really a graphic novel... it's not told through the pictures, but every page has illustrations. 2. The narrative does jump around a lot, from the chronological events of the Curie family's life...
A brilliant, vibrant work of imagination.
this book is super cool! i think my favorite thing about it (besides the fact it GLOWS IN THE DARK) is how it shows some of the effects of Marie Curie's work. for example, there is a bit about how the first x-ray and it includes the image (SO COOL)!! Redniss also interviewed a woman who lived throug...
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