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Age of Innocence

A So-So Classic with Unlikable Characters Author: Edith Wharton Newland Archer, former lover of a married woman, has sown his wild oats. He is ready to settle down, yet he hopes that his new wife, May Well, will be open to his ideas. Despite having chosen May and wooed her for her societal prestige, her cosseted goodness, her forced innocence, he has ideas about the liberation of a woman’s mind. He is at war with himself – with what he says he wants and what he really wants. But he realizes none of this. Enter the Countess Olenska, a distant relative [...]

2022-09-26T18:27:42-07:00September 26th, 2022|Tags: , , , |

Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?

A Look at Animal intelligence and the Science That's Trying to Understand It  Author: Frans De Wall I picked up Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? from an Audible deal. I usually immerse myself in fiction, but I also have an intense passion for all things animal related, including animal welfare and understanding the complex emotions and intelligence that anyone close to animals can easily observe. I was excited to start this book, to hear science backup what animal lovers have known for a long time. I was also looking forward to the deep dive stories [...]

2022-09-19T16:48:26-07:00September 19th, 2022|Tags: , , , , , |

Golden State

The State of Truth Author: Ben H. Winters In Underground Airlines author Ben H. Winter forced us to examine the relentless nature of the past, the violence of survival, the horrors of government and technological oversight, and the skewed nature of our individual moral compass. In Golden State, he’s back to do the same. To take the world as we know it and flip everything, to make us question past and future, our motives and morals, and the lies that we take for granted. In Golden State truth is law – literarily. To lie is more than to sin. To lie [...]

2022-09-18T20:14:33-07:00September 18th, 2022|Tags: , , , , , , |
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