The Monster’s Bones: The Discovery of T. rex and How It Shook Our WorldDavid R. Randall “The T. rex, the king of our prehistoric world, played an outsized role in the making of the modern one…Rather than a mirror into the past, the creature proved to reflect the concerns of the present.” With the discovery…
Tag: Mystery/Thriller
What I read: May 2024
A Psalm for the Wild-BuiltBecky ChambersFiction, hardback, library book “…every component has been recycled over and over and over again into infinitely incredible configurations, and sometimes, those configurations are special enough to be able to see the world around them. You and I — we’re just atoms that arranged themselves the right way, and we…
What I read: April 2024
The Making of Home: The 500-Year Story of How Our Houses Became HomesJudith FlandersNon-fiction, paperback “…the woman’s ability to keep house became central: it reflected her value. It was no longer simply a matter of was the house adequately cleaned, scrubbed, polished? It was how the upkeep had been achieved, which measured not hygiene, but…
What I read: March 2024
The Facts of MidlifeRobyn PetermanFiction, audiobook “I’d only been forty for three hours and it was already seriously bad. The solitary hand was the rancid icing on top of a really crappy birthday cake.” Daisy knew that turning 40 would mean some changes — gluing body parts back onto ghosts wasn’t on her bingo card….
What I read: January 2024
Romancing Mister BridgertonJulia QuinnFiction, audiobook “ ‘Isn’t it nice,’ the older lady said, leaning in so that only Penelope could hear her words, ‘to discover that we’re not exactly what we thought we were?’ ” Penelope Featherington has loved Colin Bridgerton for more than half her life, with zero expectation that he would ever return…