Our Shared Shelf is a series of recorded book reviews done by faculty members from various subject areas featuring their most recommended fiction or non-fiction book. One book review will be posted per week!
Our Shared Shelf is a series of recorded book reviews done by faculty members from various subject areas featuring their most recommended fiction or non-fiction book. One book review will be posted per week!
The God Particle
By Dick Teresi and Leon M. Lederman
October 28, 2021
What is the God particle? Is there really such a thing? For this week’s episode, Mr. Noviel Natividad will share his thoughts on popular science book written by a Nobel Prize-winning physicist and a science writer.
Watership Down
By Richard Adams
October 21, 2021
Do rabbits have their own language? Their own mythology? Their own world? For this week’s episode, Mrs. Bobbie Ramirez will talk about a band of very special creatures on their flight from the intrusion of man and the certain destruction of their home. It is a tale of fear, betrayal, courage, and loyalty.
Description was adapted from Goodreads (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/76620.Watership_Down)
Ramayana: Divine Loophole
By Sanjay Patel
October 14, 2021
Have you heard of Hindu Mythology? For this week’s episode, Mr. Joey Flores will share his thoughts on Hindu mythology's best-loved and most enduring tales. Teeming with powerful deities, love-struck monsters, magic weapons, and divine love, Ramayana tells the story of Rama, a god-turned-prince, and his quest to rescue his wife Sita after she is kidnapped by a demon king.
This description was adapted from Goodreads (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7456105-ramayana).