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Tender Prey

Part Horror, Part Thriller: A Mother's Dilemma Author: Julia Grice Sherry Vincent is haunted by memories of her summer as a 12-year-old: of the handsome teacher, the secret meeting with him and her friends, what he did, and what the town did afterwards. It’s something she can never escape, and now as a recently divorced single mother, raising her beautiful 12-year-old daughter Kady, all the fears are coming back. When someone begins to buzz their remote house with a snowmobile, unsolicited and decidedly adult glamour shots of her daughter appear in town, and violent pornographic tapes start to arrive in the [...]

Frances Carden2022-10-01T12:24:30-07:00October 1st, 2022|Tags: book review, horror, read, reading, thriller|

Age of Innocence

A So-So Classic with Unlikable Characters Author: Edith Wharton Newland Archer, former lover of a married woman, has sown his wild oats. He is ready to settle down, yet he hopes that his new wife, May Well, will be open to his ideas. Despite having chosen May and wooed her for her societal prestige, her cosseted goodness, her forced innocence, he has ideas about the liberation of a woman’s mind. He is at war with himself – with what he says he wants and what he really wants. But he realizes none of this. Enter the Countess Olenska, a distant relative [...]

Frances Carden2022-09-26T18:27:42-07:00September 26th, 2022|Tags: book review, classic, read, reading|

Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?

A Look at Animal intelligence and the Science That's Trying to Understand It Author: Frans De Wall I picked up Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? from an Audible deal. I usually immerse myself in fiction, but I also have an intense passion for all things animal related, including animal welfare and understanding the complex emotions and intelligence that anyone close to animals can easily observe. I was excited to start this book, to hear science backup what animal lovers have known for a long time. I was also looking forward to the deep dive stories [...]

Frances Carden2022-09-19T16:48:26-07:00September 19th, 2022|Tags: animals, book review, non-fiction, read, reading, science|