We all know someone who can read a room, and someone who can't read others at all. We've made friends instantly with someone, or admired someone's social ease, or have read someone's body language from across the room. What is going on when we meet people, when we feel comfortable building a relationship or repulsed …
Continue reading Why We Click: The Emerging Science Of Interpersonal Synchrony by Kate Murphy
In this book, Madison Salters has curated nine cases of murder and crime that involve influencers, either as victims or perpetrators, from all over the world. Cases like Trey Sesler, Pekka-Eric Auvinen and Yuka Takaoka and more, each of which explore how this recently emerging career path, that of influencer or content creator, has created …
Here Lies Buried is, according to the publishers website, "a collection of essays inspired by celebrities who died in 2024. Part celebration, part reflection and part meditation on what else felt like it died in 2024. Famous people include: Melanie, David Soul, Nex Benedict, Alexei Navalny, Shelley Duvall, Shannen Doherty, James Earl Jones, Dame Maggie …
"Mysteries, Deaths and Disappearances in National Parks". This little volume with it's startling cover photo covers cases from the 1920's to the 2020s that have mystified and fascinated investigators and true crime readers for decades. As the opening chapter lets us know, National Parks can be appealing to criminals because the isolation of the location …
Joan Greenwood, the youngest of a ruling family of witches, can't do magic. When she returns home after 7 years away, she finds her indifferent relatives focused on a local debacle: a normal mortal has been turned into a witch by a spell. When her best friend gets involved in trying to help this hapless …
Venice, 1539. When Aldo learns of a conspiracy to assassinate Duke Cosimo de Medici, ruler of Florence, he's hired to help protect him, but after the attack fails, there's a twist: Someone used the distraction to steal the Duke's private journal, full of incendiary political secrets that threaten the very fabric of society. Now Aldo …
Continue reading Carnival Of Lies by DV Bishop (#5 Cesare Aldo)
In London, Cassandra, a disgraced former bookseller, finds herself in a dangerous game when her former mentor is murdered, and leaves her his bookshop. She knows all of the underground magical bookshops must have a bookseller, but to take this on she must deal with a handsome man who also wants this coveted spot, rival …
This book opens with a content warning, so I want to start my review by letting you know that this book contains a lot of things, including gore, infanticide, rape, violence against animals... and a lot of people doing mushrooms. Moonflow is about Sarah, a trans-woman, who finds herself in financial trouble when her mushroom …
Effy longs to study literature, her love of Myrrdins work being a major part of her life, but in her world women aren't allowed to study it, so she's relegated to being the only woman on the architecture course. Her guidance counselor has sexually harassed her, and the male students constantly hit on her, so …
This week, we return to the Scholastic Bookfair to check out the classic Bunnicula, the story of a loyal family dog Harold who suspects the new family pet rabbit has a sinister secret... A nostalgic dive into the story behind the story and an exploration of the plot of this children's classic. Contains spoilers. This …
Continue reading Return To The Bookfair – Bunnicula by Deborah and James Howe (1979)
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