MadelineThe title gives this book away. Clearly there is a wife upstairs. We learn that early in the book too. But why is she up there? How come the new wife doesn’t know she is …
The Person You’ve Never Hear Of Who Discovered DNA
Ask a group of people who discovered DNA and the likely answer you will get is “Watson and Crick.” These are the men who claimed the discovery as their own and were rewarded the Nobel …
The Duke and I: Book 1 Of The Excellent Bridgerton Series
The Duke and I is the first book in the Bridgerton Series that was made into a television series that has taken the world by storm. The heat of the book, and television series, has …
Stephen King’s It: The Big Scary Clown Of Nightmares
Stephen King’s It is not just story of a big scary clown, as one may think, it is the story of everything that ever gives nightmares. To one character, It is a werewolf. To another …
Southern Book Club’s Guide To Slaying Vampires: New Lurking Monster
The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires starts in the quite town of Mount Pleasant in South Carolina. No one locks their doors. Southern hospitality is a must in any household. The women meet …
Sea Of Tranquility: Life As Simulation And Obsession With Pandemics
Sea Of Tranquility was written by Emily St. John Mandel, who also wrote Station Eleven. Station Eleven was written prior to COVID-19 and yet it is about a killer flu that wipes out a large …
The Secret History: An Unusual Murder and Greek Lessons
The Secret History has the scent of late 1950s or early 1960s literature. It is a bit of an epic story of a young man looking at a tricky situation and the characters who surround …
The Great Courses: Living the French Revolution and the Age of Napoleon
Living the French Revolution and the Age of Napoleon is the second course I have listened to from The Great Courses. Previously, I had listened to From Yao to Mao: 5000 Years of Chinese History, …
The 8 Proven Benefits Of Reading Fiction
Very few adults I know are big readers. Once they had their last day of school, they felt as though they were done reading any book, let alone fiction books. What most people do not …
Gone To Soldiers: Another Historical Fiction About A Popular Time
Gone To Soldiers by Marge Piercy is another historical fiction book about World War II. I have read plenty of these World War II historical fiction books in my day, enough to have even picked …