Masters of Sex has two main components: the research that Masters & Johnson performed over decades as “sex experts”, and biographical material on the researchers themselves. Most of the research I found fascinating, particularly in how very controversial it was at the time. But the biographical material, while presumably accurate, portrayed Masters & Johnson as a couple of really unpleasant people that I quickly tired of. Dr. William Masters — an OBGYN determined to make a name for himself — and Virginia Johnson — a secretary […]
The real American Horror Story: Hotel
This is actually a reread for me. I originally read it shortly after it came out in paperback several years ago. Since then my tastes have changed a little and I’ve gotten myself a history degree and it’s really deepened my appreciation for this book. Larson’s research is meticulous and his writing is engaging and reads more like literary fiction than a historical text. Word has it that Leonardo Dicaprio has bought the film rights to this book and I am super excited. The book […]
Sometimes You Get To Be Famous For A Job Well Done
In finishing Hamilton: The Revolution, and being mired by yet another round of inequality for women in our country, I decided to stay the course with another non-fiction book, this one about a dynamo of gender equality. I was familiar with Justice Ginsburg, but Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg gave me so much more. Notorious RBG chronicles the personal history of RBG, her experiences in law school and pursuing a law career while being a mother (not an easy job […]
My first graphic [novel] travelogue
I first heard of Displacement (2015) by Lucy Knisley from another Cannonball review. Knisley is a twenty-something writer who volunteers to chaperone her aging grandparents when they unexpectedly sign up for a cruise. I’d never read a graphic novel [or travelogue] before, but this one called to me for a number of reasons. First, the review was very positive and persuasive. Second, I have never been on a cruise, and I’m pretty sure that’s been a good decision. Right now, most of my knowledge of cruises […]
It’s Always Darkest Before the Dawn
“All those accidents I’d had over the years- smashing my forehead into lamposts, bashing my shins into coffee tables, face-planting when I tripped over fire hydrants- they weren’t because I was an airhead who didn’t pay attention. They were because I had one-third the field of vision that everyone else had…” Nicole had just finished her Sophomore year in college when she went to an eye exam with a specialist recommended to her by her ophthalmologist. After a series of random questions and an ERG […]
The Man that Brought Down a Presidency
Well I am unintentionally reviewing two books about the going-ons in the White House back to back. Inside the Residence, which did share some secret insights to the inner workings of the men who run our nation, has nothing on the information Alexander Butterfield shares from his three years in the Nixon inner circle. The Last of the President’s Men is Butterfield’s side of the well known Nixon story; it is handled with care by Nixon aficionado Bob Woodward. My biggest complaint would be the jump between […]
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