Review: The Names by Florence Knapp Synopsis What’s in a name? Would your life have played out exactly the same if your parents had chosen a different name for you? In her debut novel, The Names, Florence Knapp explores this question by following three separate timelines in which Cora, the abused wife of a well-respected…
Review of Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global, by Laura Spinney Proto Synopsis An engaging look at the mother of almost half of the world’s languages, Proto-Indo-European, and how we are able to track the movements of its pre-historic speakers through the DNA and linguistic clues they left behind. (In other words, Proto is…
Hubris Maximus: The Shattering of Elon Musk Synopsis Journalist Faiz Siddiqui, who has been following Elon Musk’s life and career closely for several years, lays out the meteoric rise and beginnings of the puzzling fall of the world’s richest man. How on earth did we get here?? My Review The past 3 months have felt…
The Shivers is a collection of short stories by some of horror’s greatest contemporary writers: Joe Hill, Stephen Graham Jones, Grady Hendrix, Catriona Ward, and Owen King. It will become available on Amazon in ebook and audiobook formats on April 15, but I was granted early access by NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.…