Nonfiction and Nonsense

  • Are You Coming? by Laura Hiddinga

    If you have the anatomy of a female, this book is a must read. Most Americans have some form of sex education in school, and I’d like to think my elementary, middle, and high school lessons on the subject were very good, especially when compared to the curriculum of the nation at large. But I…

  • Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss

    This was an interesting one. A short piece of fiction, it features a girl who is on a trip with her parents, a professor, and some students, on a two week summer experience living as ancient Britons. Silvie’s dad is obsessed with the lives of people who lived thousands of years ago, but she is…

  • How To Justify Torture by Alex Adams

    An entire book completely dedicated to the ethics of the ticking time bomb scenario, which I am certain most people have heard a version of at some point in their adult lives. Basically, does saving the many justify the torture of one individual? The author gives several different versions of the hypothetical situation, and with…

  • Update

    I have a very brief update to end the month, for anyone who wants to know what will be coming up in the blog. I came to the decision to be very productive with my reading for the month of April, and for that to happen I chose to skip having a theme. The main…

  • Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Suskind

    I watched the film adaptation of this novel many years ago, well before I knew that it was taken from a book. I actually only very recently found out that Perfume was a novel when I saw it during one of my book store wanderings. Even though I’ve only seen the movie once I remember…