Jane EyreCharlotte BrontëBook club “I see at intervals the glance of a curious sort of bird through the close set bars of a cage: a vivid, restless, resolute captive is there; were it but free, it would soar cloud-high.” After eight years as a student and teacher at Lowood School, orphan Jane Eyre is anxious…
Tag: Mystery/Thriller
What I read: December 2024
Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress CycleEmily Nagoski, Amelia Nagoski “In short, emotions are tunnels. If you go all the way through them, you get to the light at the end. Exhaustion happens when we get stuck in an emotion.” The number of people experiencing burnout has skyrocketed in recent years. No one is…
What I read: November 2024
ADHD is Awesome: A Guide to (Mostly) Thriving with ADHDPenn Holderness with Kim Holderness “Dr. Hallowell describes people with ADHD as having a Ferrari engine in a race car brain with bicycle brakes.” YouTube creator Penn Holderness was diagnosed with ADHD in college. Now he and his wife Kim have written ADHD is Awesome to…
What I read: October 2024
A Fatal Grace (Chief Inspector Gamache #2)Louise Penny “I think people who have had that experience and survived have a responsibility to help others. We can’t let someone drown where we were saved.” When the newest resident of Three Pines is electrocuted in broad daylight in front of the whole town, few mourn her loss…
What I read: September 2024
The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of ScienceSam Kean “…when we sacrifice morals for scientific progress, we often end up with neither.” Scientific research and testing has brought us incredible knowledge about everything from biodiversity to treating and curing disease. But dig through the notebooks or…