The Wilderness of Ruin: A Tale of Madness, Fire, and the Hunt for America’s Youngest Serial KillerRoseanne MontilloNon-fiction, paperback “Cleckley described psychopaths as ‘hot headed, manipulative, irresponsible, self-centered, shallow, lacking in empathy or anxiety…also more violent, more likely to recidivate, and less likely to respond to treatment.’ His description became the most influential and most…
Tag: Fiction
Category: Review
What I read: February 2023
Hell’s Half-Acre: The Untold Story of the Benders, a Serial Killer Family on the American FrontierSusan JonusasNon-fiction, hardback A deep look into the mysterious Bender family, whose claim to fame involved murdering at least 11 people and burying them in their Kansas homestead orchard. Many sensational reports have been written about the “bloody Benders” and…
What I read: January 2023
A History of the Wife Marilyn YalomNon-fiction, paperback A look at what it meant to be a wife from ancient times to modern day. I had an inkling of how this was going to go because I started it just as I finished The Other Side of History: Daily Life in the Ancient World….
Review: The Epic of Gilgamesh
If you’re into old stories, you can’t get much older than The Epic of Gilgamesh. It was written almost 1,000 years before The Bible, and is preserved on and translated from a series of 11 clay tablets. Although called an “epic,” its original writers had no word corresponding to “epic” or “myth,” so it was…