When journalist Susan Casey watches a documentary about the great white sharks near northern California’s Farallon Islands, it awakens within her an intense longing to get up close and personal with the mysterious predators. After getting in touch with Scot Anderson and Peter Pyle, the island’s main shark researchers, Casey manages to get a rare…
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Review: The Phantom Tollbooth
Milo is an utterly unexcitable little boy. When he’s at home he wants to be at school; but when he’s at school he wants to be at home. He doesn’t see the value of learning facts he’ll never need, and neither book nor toy interests him. But when he arrives home after another boring day…
Review: Born on a Blue Day
(I listened to this audiobook as part of the 2013 Audio Book Challenge.) Daniel Tammet was born on Wednesday, January 31, 1979. He knows it’s a Wednesday because the day is blue, just like the number nine or loud voices arguing. Tammet was born with savant syndrome, and has an obsessive need for order and…