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Before I Go to Sleep

Forgetting to Remember Author: S.J. Watson When I wake up in the morning I usually have the same first thought, "Do I really have to get up now?"  What if your first thought, every single morning, was, "Where am I and who is this man in my bed?"  In such a case you would most likely have a problem with either substance abuse or promiscuity.  Or maybe you have amnesia.  Guess which one applies in Before I Go to Sleep? If you guessed promiscuity, I like the way you think, but you're wrong.  Christine Lucas has amnesia.  She forms memories [...]

2016-12-31T17:57:30-07:00April 6th, 2012|Tags: , , , , |

Dangerous Instincts: How Gut Feelings Betray Us

Authors: Mary Ellen O’Toole and Alisa Bowman Looking for some relaxing reading? Then just keep on walking, dear reader — briskly, with pepper spray and brass knuckles in hand. As a hardcore Type A, stoking up a paralyzing anxiety attack over a nonexistent situation is one of my favorite pastimes, but even I have my fear-mongering limits. This book should really be called Everyone You Know Will Murder You (and Strangers Want Your Money). Mary Ellen O’Toole is a former FBI profiler, and she wants us to know that while identifying dangerous and threatening people isn’t quite as easy as [...]

2024-12-26T00:28:32-07:00April 6th, 2012|Tags: , , , , , |

Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity

Author: Katherine Boo If you were one of those people who said, “You know, I enjoyed Slumdog Millionaire, but it was just a little too upbeat,” I’ve got just the book for you. Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity is pretty much guaranteed to not only depress the hell out of you, but make you squirm with shame over whatever you were just complaining about. I thought I had it bad because my shower head likes to abruptly switch from cold to hot water… until I read about the Mumbai slum dwellers who have [...]

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