**This review contains adult language and discusses sex and sexuality in frank terms.** As long as sex has been around, humans have created rules regulating it. Eric Berkowitz’s Sex and Punishment: Four Thousand Years of Judging Desire is an in-depth look at the history of that regulation, from ancient Mesopotamia to Oscar Wilde’s 1895 imprisonment…
Tag: non-fiction
Review: Born to Kvetch
No culture has mastered the fine art of complaining better than the Jews. Separate from Hebrew, Yiddish is a complex, nuanced language not for the faint of heart. Meant to lament bad luck while chasing it away at the same time, Yiddish tells the story of a culture all its own. There are phrases for…
Review: Murderous Minds
Disclosure: I received a free copy of Murderous Minds from publisher Pegasus Books, LLC, but was not compensated for discussing/reviewing it. My thoughts on the book are my own. Have you seen a movie or television show featuring a serial killer or heard about a school shooting and thought, “That guy’s a psychopath”? To many…
Review: Call the Nurse
The Scottish Hebrides — a series of islands off the west coast of Scotland — have been occupied since the Mesolithic era, but this does not mean these islands are hospitable. Only the heartiest of people can weather the lashing storms, freezing winters, and everyday dangerous conditions of this almost alien world. It is to…
Review: 9 Steps to Work Less and Do More
(I read this book as part of The Mount TBR Challenge. Here’s to a shorter list!) As the Type A of all Type As, I spend a lot of time planning: my day, my reading, my work schedule, my savings account deposits, my Best Friend’s day, work schedule…you get the idea. I’m obsessed with articles…