Why We Click: The Emerging Science Of Interpersonal Synchrony by Kate Murphy

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 …

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The Second Chance Cinema by Thea Weiss

Ellie and Drake, a recently engaged couple, come across magical cinema one night down a fog covered alleyway. When they enter, they're given ten tickets to see midnight movies that play them significant memories of their lives. Ellie wants to come back, hoping to find out more about a night she can't remember clearly, while …

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Vanishing World by Sayaka Murata

(Translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori)Following the massive loss of life of WW2, women helped the war effort by being artificially inseminated. With the biological need for sex eliminated, it started to be considered unclean and incestuous, though people still marry to raise children and people vent their romantic feelings on commercialized romantic cartoon characters. As …

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Doomed Romances (Tales Of The Weird Series) ed. by Joanne Ella Parsons

This book of short stories, titled Doomed Romances: Strange Tales of Uncanny Love is from the British Library Tales of the Weird series. It features 12 stories of doomed or dark romances from some best loved authors, from Mary Shelley and Wilkie Collins to Angela Carter and Nalo Hopkinson. A nice snap shot of this …

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Interpretations Of Love by Jane Campbell

In the day's leading up to Agne's daughter's wedding, Uncle Malcolm decides to give Agnes a letter, written by her mother, that he's been holding on to since the war, while Joe anticipates seeing Agnes, whose therapist he was and who he has feelings for. Agnes, meanwhile, thinks back over her failed marriage and the …

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Friends of Friends of Friends by Lee Fearnside

The Harvard Study of Adult Development, the longest continual study of happiness inthe world, demonstrates that personal relationships are keys to emotional and physicalhealth (2023). By connecting to each other and to community, we in turn provide forourselves. Finding that true feeling of connection isn’t always easy. Introduction - Friends Of Friends Of Friends Friends …

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