The Peculiar Possum is one of a series. I do not know which number but know that there are several in the older easy reader level (I would say ages high first up to medium second grade), as well as a few novels for (according to Amazon aged 7 to 12. But not having read them, I am unsure if this is … [Read more]
A good starting point for Ripperologists
The Complete and Essential Jack the Ripper by Paul Begg and John Bennett is split into three main parts; the first part deals with the victims, including those who are sometimes dismissed from Ripper canon; the second part deals with the different theories put forward over the years on the identity … [Read more]
Crying Out My Safe Word
I am an unrequited fan of Jim Thompson's novels. If he's not my favorite writer of all time, he's one of them. I usually read books for good, well-plotted stories with richly developed characters. Rarely do I read them for metaphysics. Such is not the case with Thompson's work. Famously dubbed the … [Read more]
Maybe we don’t think so good
This book, by the author of Moneyball, is essentially a biography of the two men who did more to change the way we think about thinking. Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman are Israeli psychologists who discovered heuristics and connected the fields psychology and economics, helping create the new … [Read more]