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…
Audition by Katie Kitamura Synopsis Audition is a literary novel that’s told in two seemingly contradictory parts, the first of which begins with a middle-aged actress and a young wannabe actor meeting for lunch in a restaurant. Is this the meeting of a celebrity and a fan? Of secret lovers? Of mother and son? Something…
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…
I’ve been a fan of The Hunger Games franchise since shortly after the second movie came out. After watching the first two movies, I immediately sought out the books to find out what happened next, and I was pleasantly surprised by the intellectual depth and the subtle allegory in Collins’ writing. The original trilogy are some of…
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.…