Memes: The Sunday Post, It's Monday: What Are You Reading, Sunday Salon, and Stacking the Shelves, Mailbox Monday, Book Blogger Hop
As it gets harder sometimes to chat or interact with aging friends my age and even younger, I am more attracted to nonfiction reads that try to decipher our brains and what can happen as we grow and get older. I hope to be enlightened about myself as well as about others.
The Mind Electric: A Neurologist on the Strangeness and Wonder of our Brains by Pria Anand is an ARC from NetGalley, which will be published June 10, 2025.
In The Mind Electric, neurologist Pria Anand reveals—through case study, history, fable, and memoir—all that the medical establishment has the complexity and wonder of brains in health and in extremis, and the vast gray area between sanity and insanity, doctor and patient, and illness and wellness, each separated from the next by the thin veneer of a different story.
Remembering the cruise we never took - to Havana - that was bought, paid for, and was then canceled in 2019 by a new ban on travel to Cuba by the president at the time. I'll try some of these recipes instead, I guess.
The Old Havana Cookbook by Rafael Marcos, published December 1, 1999. Among the recipes included Ajiaco (famous Cuban Stew), Boiled Pargo with Avocado Sauce, Lobster Havanaise, Tamal en Cazuela (Soft Tamal), Quimbombo (okra), Picadillo, Roast Suckling Pig, and Boniatillo (Sweet Potato Dulce), along with a whole chapter on famous Cuban cocktails and beverages.
All recipes using local foods, seafood, and tropical fruits and veggies.
An interesting take on outsiders seeing the other side of the coin when it comes to groups, families, organizations, businesses, etc.The book has created a new category of people - otroverts. Those who don't feel part of any type of group.
Book description: The book details the otrovert personality – someone who feels like an outsider in any group, regardless of its members - revealing all the advantages of being an otrovert and ways otroverts contribute to the world. Otroverts are embraced and often quite popular. Yet they never feel like they truly belong.
I'm not sure I'm an otrovert. Do you know anyone who fits this description? Are they lucky or not?
I'm still reading fiction and mysteries, of course! I finished this one and rated it a 4 on Goodreads and will write a review later on.
Five Found Dead by Sulari Gentill, August 19, 2025; Poisoned Pen Press; NetGalley. Set on the Orient Express in Paris, the famous train is filled with detectives and crime writers on vacation, fascinated by the history of the setting for mystery writers such as Agatha Christie.
Of course, there are murders on the train, and the writers and detectives set out to solve the crimes even if it means it has to charge one of their own.
I'm in the middle of reading Our Last Resort by Clemence Michallon, July 8, 2025, Knopf, NetGalley. It's a mystery thriller and psych suspense novel.
Frida and Gabriel are staying at a seculded resort in the desert of Utah, reuniting and reminiscing about their childhoods growing up in a cult family from which they later escaped. They see a murder on the grounds of the resort and try to solve it themselves, with flashbacks to their lives growing up in the cult.
I'm intrigued by the murder mystery as well as by the description of life in a cult led by a misogynistic and narcissictic leader.
That's all for me this week. What are you reading, watching, or listening to this week?
Memes: The Sunday Post, It's Monday: What Are You Reading, Sunday Salon, and Stacking the Shelves, Mailbox Monday, Book Blogger Hop
