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Our Heads Are Full Author: Brett Kahr During the early 2000s psychotherapist and psychoanalyst Brett Kahr undertook the largest study on the hidden realm of sexual fantasies, known as The British Sexual Fantasy Research Project. By the end of the enormous, multi-year study, in which Kahr sent in-depth questionnaires to many and even met with some, he received data from over 23,000 adults, men and women, ranging from ages 18 to 90. What resulted is this book: a five hundred page opus on everything lustful from group fantasies to celebrity fixations, from porn addiction to incest, from the ordinary and [...]

Small town horrors... Author:  Bill James How much murder can you take?  One?  Half a dozen?  How about more than one hundred?  Well, if you’re looking for a way to answer that question, I can think of no better way than to hop on board with The Man from the Train, baseball pundit and murder obsessive Bill James’ fearlessly dreadful murder investigation.  I’ve never read anything quite like it and if you’re into murder, it’s sure to intrigue. While otherwise minding his own business, probably taking a break from crunching baseball statistics, James was reading about the infamous – and [...]

"All is vanity, nothing is fair." Author: William Makepeace Thackeray Back on a classics kick, I decided to revisit an old favorite – William Makepeace Thackeray’s sardonic tale of worldly wiles, fallible virtues, and the vanities of pleasure. The story begins with Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley, two very different women, who are graduating from a young ladies academy and getting ready for their official, adult debut in the world. Where Becky’s background is murky, Amelia’s is clear. Where Becky seeks to play society, Amelia seeks to please it. Where Becky seeks fortune and self-interest, Amelia seeks love and idolization. [...]