I have an obsession with true crime documentaries, shows, movies and books. I am fascinated by the motivations and methods of criminals. Up to this point though, I have delved more into serial killers and single murders (Serial season 1, Zodiac, Jack the Ripper, etc). My book club selection for March brought a new subject to me – poisoning and forensics. Deborah Blum’s The Poisoner’s Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York is an encyclopedia for anyone interested in […]
The Dutch Used to be Uptight
Jessie Burton’s The Miniaturist hits many of the marks of books that immediately draw my attention: It’s centered in a long-ago time period (17th century) and a far away place (Amsterdam), has an intriguing and lovely cover, a protagonist coming of age, and a potential magical bent. I also had several friends rate it highly on Goodreads, so I definitely had high expectations. It’s perhaps for that reason that I think this fell flat for me. I didn’t dislike The Miniaturist, but I didn’t love it […]
Earls and Editors
For a lighthearted read, I picked up Eva Leigh’s Forever Your Earl when it was a Kindle Deal of the Day not too long ago. I love trying out new authors for super cheap. Earl tells the story of Daniel, the rakish and handsome young Earl of Ashford and his unusual decision to request the editor of a scandal sheet to follow him about town on his escapades to cover his interesting and gossip-worthy activities. Little does he know that E. Hawke of “The Hawk’s Eye” is […]
Fun Thriller
My book club is starting the year off with a fast-paced thriller, In a Dark Dark Wood by Ruth Ware. In all the reviews it’s compared to novels like Gone Girl and The Girl on the Train. I suppose this is due to the fact that this novel has both unreliable narration and really unlikable people. Aside from that I think the similarity is minor. The novel is the story of Nora Shaw, a crime fiction writer living in London. She is startled to receive […]
Drunk History in a book
To kick off 2017 with a bang, I read Amy Stewart’s Girl Waits with Gun. Stewart tells the story of the Kopp sisters and their ill-fated car and buggy accident with a New Jersey silk magnate, Henry Kaufman, in the early parts of the 20th century. Viewers of Comedy Central’s delightful show “Drunk History” might have familiarity with this story – this very run-in was hilariously covered in the most recent season. The Kopp sisters – Constance, Norma and Fleurette – live alone on their […]
Modern Romance
One of the books my book club selected this year was Aziz Ansari’s Modern Romance. Our membership only contains one single woman, but we could all relate in some way to the foibles of dating in a modern age. In Modern Romance, Aziz works with an NYU sociologist to research anything and everything on the modern romance scene, to fascinating and incredibly relatable results. The book is written mostly from Aziz’s point of view and if you’re familiar with his excellent Netflix show “Master of […]
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