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Author: Kent A. Kiehl The Psychopath Whisperer is an incredible book. It uses scientific information and the research experience of the author and presents this information in an appealing way that anyone can understand. The book is thus useful to both academic and general audiences. I read this book after I read Jon Ronson’s book,…
Author: Jon Ronson I previously read Ronson’s book called ‘So, you’ve been shamed,’ which I used in some classes. I then purchased The Psychopath Test and some other books he wrote but never read them until now. The reason for reading this now probably lies in the fact I just finished binging two different Dexter…
Author: David Nicholls Sweet Sorrow is a book by David Nicholls, the author of One Day, my favourite book. Well, it was my favourite book, until I read this one. Now I am not so sure as I absolutely loved this book. One thing that Sweet Sorrow made me realise is that I resent British…
Author: Toshikazu Kawaguchi Before We Forget Kindness is the fifth in the Before the Coffee Gets Cold series. I blogged about previous books (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, Tales from the Café, Before Your Memory Fades, and Before We Say Goodbye). There is a new book that I pre-ordered on Amazon coming out next year.…
Author: Toshikazu Kawaguchi Before We Say Goodbye is the fourth book in a series of Before the Coffee Gets Cold book series by Toshikazu Kawaguchi. I wrote blogs about the first three books, Before the Coffee Gets Cold, Tales from the Café, and Before Your Memory Fades. In Before We Say Goodbye, the story continues…
Author: Emily St John Mandel I read Station 11 a while ago and struggled to write a blog because so much can be said about it. To start with, what an incredible book! I love most books I read because I appreciate creativity, and I can usually find something good about most books. But Station…
Author: Kaliane Bradley The Ministry of Time presents an interesting take on time travel. Unlike conventional time travel books that focus on time travel per se, how it is done, what time travellers try to do to change history and/or how they fight to prevent history changes, parallel universe, etc., this book actually looks at…
Author: Plum Sykes The Bergdorf Blondes by Plum Sykes is a trés good book, lol 😊 It is a book about New York society or Park Avenue princesses, as the author calls rich socialites and heiresses who form a part of the N.Y society, who largely focus their lives on attending and organising events and…
Author: Ann Napolitano Hello Beautiful is a modern take on Little Women by Louisa May Alcott, just far better written and with less soppy stuff in writing, and certainly without historical behavioural differences, e.g., in Little Women there is an excessive patriarchal subordination to parents and elders, which does not happen in Hello Beautiful. Obviously, I…
Director: Tim Burton I watched Beetlejuice Beetlejuice last weekend in the cinema, in the D-BOX experience, which was the first time I watched a film like that. It goes without saying I loved having my chair shake every time something happened in the movie. As for the Beetlejuice Beetlejuice story, after a family tragedy, members…
Author: Toshikazu Kawaguchi Before Your Memory Fades is the third book in the series, Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi. I enjoyed the first two books and reviewed them, see here and here. Before Your Memory Fades continues with the time travel story of a café where people can come and travel in…
Author: Toshikazu Kawaguchi Before the Coffee Gets Cold – Tales from the Café is the second book in the series by Toshikazu Kawaguchi. I wrote about the first part here. Before the Coffee Gets Cold – Tales from the Café continues to follow stories from a café in Tokyo where people can come and…
Author: Erica Katz The Boys’ Club is a debut novel by Erica Katz, a pseudonym for a real-life lawyer who tells the story of a large law company from New York and the way new lawyers get socialised into a large, global, prestigious firm. Alexandra (Alex) is a fresh Harvard law school graduate who takes…
Director: Lee Isaac Chung Twisters is an American disaster film portraying a team of researchers, and tornado chasers, trying to chase tornadoes. The 2024 Twisters is a stand-alone sequel to the 1996 Twisters film. In 2024 Twisters, the research team is trying to find a way to dissipate tornadoes and make them smaller before they…
Author: Karla Gower The Betsy Plank book by Karla Gower, a Behringer distinguished professor at the University of Alabama and a director of the Plank Center for Leadership in PR formed by Betsy Ann Plank in collaboration with the university’s administration of the time, presents an interesting read about a PR woman who had a…
Author: Andrew Hastie The Infinity Engines – Contagion is the last book in the Infinity Engines series. I previously read and blogged about previous parts, part I, part II, part III, part IV, and part V. The Infinity Engines book series did not end with Contagion in a way that suggests this series could not…
The New Look is an Apple original series narrating a fashion story of Parisian haute couture designers based on true events. The story is centred on WWII Paris and designers who were struggling to make a living whilst also trying not to be involved in work with the Nazi occupiers. The story, not surprisingly given…
Presumed Innocent is an Apple series that tackles a high-profile murder case where the main suspect is someone from the Chicago’s Persecuting Attorney Office, and what is more, the chief prosecutor. The murder act has been committed against one of the persecutors and since she had an affair with the chief persecutor, Rusty Sabich (Jake…
Director: Shawn Levy I watched Deadpool and Wolverine as soon as it came out, but the review is delayed so there are plenty of reviews already. Anyway, my take? It was fun and exactly what you expect of this film and Ryan Reynolds was as brilliant as you expect him to be. In this instalment…
Author: Libby Page The Lifeline is a continuation of The Lido, a book that launched Libby Page as an author. I read all books by Libby Page albeit it was not The Lido I read first. I first found out about her when one of my British colleagues of the time recommended The Island Home,…
Director: Michael Sarnoski A Quiet Place: Day One is a prequel to the 2018 film A Quiet Place by John Krasinski where parents struggle to raise their children in a world occupied by extraterrestrial blind creatures with ultra-sensitive hearing. A Quiet Place: Day One returns to the first day of the invasion and how it…