The Green Glass Sea

This book, it strikes me, is everything wrong with children's literature. As an adult book it would be a four-star book, but as a children's book it's a 2-star book. OPINION-FILLED REVIEW BELOW: Summary: two awkward girls meet at the army base in Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project and eventually......more

Some time needs to elapse for me to see if this book makes as much of an imprint on me as it now seems, but this is one I might consider for my favorites shelf. In this novel everything so vivid: the feelings and thoughts and actions of the characters, the many descriptions of food, the train ride, t......more

This is an historical novel set during WWII in New Mexico where Oppenheimer and his team are trying to develop the atomic bomb to bring the war to a close. Though it's not a science fiction book, it is fiction about scientists and well captures the sense-of-wonder feeling of the best of the genre as......more

It was foolish of me to think reading one chapter late last night was a good idea. I read the whole book, and sobbed. It was late enough when I started. Sigh. What an unusual topic, and how vividly depicted and beautifully written. I loved Dewey's interaction with real people, not overdone but very c......more

Exceptionally interesting I thoroughly enjoyed “Green Glass Sea.” It put a couple of family situations in the middle of the building of the atomic bomb, the Manhattan project. Not only was it a good story it also showed the impacts of such a powerful weapon.......more