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Jess Costello

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Jess Costello

Reviewer

Jessica Costello is a Writing, Literature and Publishing major and Marketing Communicationsminor at Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts. She has been published in the online literary magazine East Coast Ink, and briefly wrote for WERS, one of Emerson College's radio stations. After college, she plans to write novels and continue to graduate school to receive a Master's degree in Library and Information Science. She currently works as an Information Research Assistant atEmerson College's Iwasaki Library.

Jess Costello

Reviews by Jess Costello

The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage
by Sydney Padua - Comic Books, Fiction, Graphic Novel, Historical Fiction
Meet Victorian London’s most dynamic duo: Charles Babbage, the unrealized inventor of the computer, and his accomplice, Ada, Countess of Lovelace, the peculiar protoprogrammer and daughter of Lord Byron. When Lovelace translated a description of Babbage’s plans for an enormous mechanical calculating machine in 1842, she added annotations three times longer than the original work. Her footnotes contained the first appearance of the general computing theory, a hundred years before an actual computer was built. Sadly, Lovelace died of cancer a decade after publishing the paper, and Babbage never built any of his machines.
 
But do not despair! THE THRILLING ADVENTURES OF LOVELACE AND BABBAGE presents a rollicking alternate reality in which Lovelace and Babbage do build the Difference Engine and then use it to build runaway economic models, battle the scourge of spelling errors, explore the wilder realms of mathematics, and, of course, fight crime --- for the sake of both London and science. Complete with extensive footnotes that rival those penned by Lovelace herself, historical curiosities, and never-before-seen diagrams of Babbage’s mechanical, steam-powered computer, The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage is wonderfully whimsical, utterly unusual, and, above all, entirely irresistible.
Displacement: A Travelogue
by Lucy Knisley - Graphic Novel

In her graphic memoirs, New York Times-best selling cartoonist Lucy Knisley paints a warts-and-all portrait of contemporary, twentysomething womanhood, like writer Lena Dunham (Girls). In the next installment of her graphic travelogue series, DISPLACEMENT, Knisley volunteers to watch over her ailing grandparents on a cruise.