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
A heavily pregnant Sargent Hill and DCI Lloyd (her partner on and off the job), are helping out at the local amateur dramatic society right before Christmas when the DCI gets a call that the local GPs wife has been found murdered in her home. The GP happens to be part of the play, and …
Continue reading Scene Of Crime: A Christmas Murder Mystery by Jill McGown
A homeless teenage girl in London tricks her way into the home of a wealthy man, in order to get inside the place where her partner was last seen. A gothic fiction, set inside a crumbling mansion full of books and papers owned by a dark and moody man, this book is quite a page …
Revival Season is Monica West's debut novel, and it follows a Southern black Evangelical family, through the eyes of the main character, Miriam, the 15 year old daughter. Miriam's father is a Baptist preacher and faith healer, and each Summer they travel with him to tent revivals, where he heals the sick and injured through …
In 1617, a freak storm blew up out of nowhere off the coast of Vardo, a small Norwegian island. At the time, all the fishermen were out on the water, and it killed all 40 of them. It meant that there were almost no men on the island at all, and the women had to …
In Norway, there's a tradition of dropping kids of about 12 in the woods and allowing them to navigate and make their own way back to camp. They're blindfolded so they don't know where exactly they are and they have no modern conveniences. No phones. No GPS. It's a rite of passage for a lot …
The title of this book is kind of a pun, because the main character is a nineteen year old girl called Lona, and she is an introvert who has dropped out of studying for a Bachelor of Fine Arts. She doesn't really know why she's dropped out and, amusingly, she's in the habit of sneaking …
Abby is the successful sister. Ellie is the vulnerable, pretty sister. Everyone knows that Ellie is their mothers favorite, but Abby has figured out something about her sisters childhood illness that might blow the family apart. I liked the cover of this book and I have read Michelle Frances The Girlfriend, which was far fetched, …
Set in North West London, Ruth is woken by a scream one night, and later thinks she sees something, on her quiet cul-de-sac. But no one will believe her and she's not sure that she can believe herself, because after the birth of her baby, she experienced post partum psychosis. Her delusions were strong enough …
Commissario Guido Brunetti investigates when two American girls are left injured and unconscious outside the hospital after a boating accident. At first, he's on the trail of the two boys who left them there and ran away, but the behaviour of one of them seems to hint at something more complicated beneath the surface. Reading …
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