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Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

The Scent of Young Womanhood Author: Patrick Suskind Jean-Baptiste Grenouille was born into filth, unwanted. His mother was executed for attempting to kill him. Grenouille was passed from one church to another, one nurse to another, but everyone found something about him, even as a child, that was unsettling, wrong. The infant had no smell, and this was, they felt, a harbinger of something altogether inhuman. Something other and twisted. They were not wrong. While Grenouille has no scent of his own, he has a powerful gift. He can decipher and catalog odors in a way that no other can. Odors [...]

Frances Carden2024-12-02T14:08:48-07:00December 2nd, 2024|Tags: book review, horror, reaading, read|

Dark Corners

The Dark Side of Social Media Author: Megan Goldin A beloved van-life influencer, Maddison Logan, has vanished. Suspected serial killer Terrance Bailey was the last person to see her. Why did she visit him in jail? What did she say to him during their tense meeting, and why did she recommend that he contact true-crime podcaster Rachel Krall? With the killer soon to finish his sentence, police are clamoring for more evidence to keep this dangerous man off the streets and find out how he is connected to Maddison’s disappearance. They have long suspected that he did not act alone. With [...]

Frances Carden2024-12-01T20:29:41-07:00December 1st, 2024|Tags: book review, read, reading, thriller|

Walking Him Home: Helping My Husband Die With Dignity

Walking Him Home: Helping My Husband Die With Dignity Author: Joanne Tubbs Kelly Love, like illness, is often sudden and complicated. With four failed marriages behind them, Alan and Joanne hardly expected to find each other. Joanne was divorced, living on her own for the first time, in a new job. Alan, her boss, had recently been abandoned by his wife. It was the beginning of a deep, lasting affair of the heart. It was also the beginning of a painful journey that would end on January 11, 2020, with Alan sitting in bed, drinking a cocktail of medicines designed to [...]

Frances Carden2024-11-25T18:02:25-07:00November 25th, 2024|Tags: book review, colorado, medical aid in dying, memoir, read, reading|