Book Review: The Mind is Flat by Nick Chater

Book Review: The Mind is Flat by Nick Chater | Forget all about the Freudian ID, Super-ego and Ego vying for your present attention. And forget about Jungian archetypes and stuff randomly bubbling up to the surface of your consciousness. According to Behavioural Psychologist Nick Chater – this doesn’t exist. Instead, what we all have is a flat mind!

Book Review: Tiny Gardens Everywhere by Kate Brown

This is an enormously important book about the history of gardening not as a placid recreational activity for the wealthy but as a practical form of survival, food security and resistance by working class people all over the world. Never has a book been more important as right now with the commodification of land and homes.

Book Review: The Glassmaker by Tracy Chevalier

A juicy and reverent novel about a sparkling time in #history – the #Italian #Renaissance from the perspective of a determined young female glassmaker on the island of #Murano in #Venice.

Book Review: Burial Rites by Hannah Kent

Inspired by a true story, Hannah Kent has woven a remarkable tale that is totally bewitching and magical in how it draws you in. The heroine Agnus Magnusdottir is condemned to death for her part in the brutal murder of a well-liked local man Natan Ketilsson.

Book Review: The Ideological Brain by Leor Zmigrod

A very timely and interesting book about the interplay between ideology and rigid thinking and how our psychology and neurobiology influence our personal politics. You will learn why your brain is wired to be conservative or progressive.

Book Review: All That Holds Between by S.J. Lee

A cosy and quirky mystery set in the near future in a Taiwanese town about lost memories, the bonding experience of delicious food, omnipotent technology and the human connections we all crave to be happy.

Book Review: Hungerstone by Kat Dunn

A sexy dark and glittering jewel of a novel featuring Sapphic vampires and crumbling old Victorian estates with a cast of believable and enjoyable characters. You will want to get drawn into this one, but you may not be able to stop!

Book Review: Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan by Shikibu Murasaki

A life-affirming collection of Japanese writing and poetry from the 11th Century AD. Written by aristocratic ladies in waiting to the empress of Japan they reflect the preoccupations, passions and obsessions of women born long long ago.

Book Review: Oddbody by Rose Keating

Rose Keating’s debut short story collection, Oddbody features macabre body #horror #tales with funny and unexpected twists and turns. #ShortStories #Fiction #RoseKeating #Books #Bookstodon #BookReview