Bad Blood by John Carreyrou Book Review The lowdown from Goodreads Publication Date May 21, 2018 In 2014, Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes was widely seen as the female Steve Jobs: a brilliant Stanford dropout whose startup “unicorn” promised to revolutionize the medical industry with a machine that would make blood tests significantly faster…
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Hotel Scarface by Roben Farzad Book Review
Hotel Scarface by Roben Farzad Book Review The lowdown from Goodreads Publication Date October 17, 2017 Drugs, disco, and debauchery: This is the wild true story of the Mutiny, the decadent hotel that embodied Miami’s cocaine-fueled heyday–and inspired the legendary film Scarface. In the seventies, coke hit Miami like a hurricane, and no place attracted dealers and dopers…
Bad With Money by Gaby Dunn Book Review
Bad With Money by Gaby Dunn Book Review The lowdown from Goodreads Publication Date January 1st, 2019 In the first episode of her “Bad With Money” podcast, Gaby Dunn asked patrons at a coffee shop two questions: First, what’s your favorite sex position? Everyone was game to answer, even the barista. Then, she asked how…
Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe Book Review
Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe Book Review The lowdown from Goodreads Publication Date February 26, 2019 From award-winning New Yorker staff writer Patrick Radden Keefe, a stunning, intricate narrative about a notorious killing in Northern Ireland and its devastating repercussions In December 1972, Jean McConville, a thirty-eight-year-old mother of ten, was dragged from her Belfast home…
The Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rule Book Review
The Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rule Book Review The lowdown from Goodreads Publication Date April 1, 1992 Ann Rule was working on the biggest story of her career, tracking the trail of victims left by a brutal serial-killer. Little did this future bestselling author know that the savage slayer she was hunting was the…
Sons of Cain by Peter Vronsky Book Review
Sons of Cain by Peter Vronsky Book Review The lowdown from Goodreads Publication Date August 14, 2018 From the author of Serial Killers: The Method and Madness of Monsters comes an in-depth examination of sexual serial killers throughout human history, how they evolved, and why we are drawn to their horrifying crimes. Before the term…
An Arabian Journey by Levison Wood Book Review
An Arabian Journey by Levison Wood Book Review The lowdown from Goodreads Publication Date February 5, 2019 Following in the footsteps of famed explorers such as Lawrence of Arabia and Wilfred Thesiger, British explorer Levison Wood brings us along on his most complex expedition yet: a circumnavigation of the Arabian Peninsula. Starting in September 2017…
Paperback Crush: The Totally Radical History of ’80s and ’90s Teen Fiction by Gabrielle Moss Book Review
Paperback Crush: The Totally Radical History of ’80s and ’90s Teen Fiction by Gabrielle Moss Book Review The lowdown on Goodreads Publication Date October 30, 2018 Every twenty- or thirty-something woman knows these books. The pink covers, the flimsy paper, the zillion volumes in the series that kept you reading for your entire adolescence. Spurred…
Bob Armstrong Dip aka Tex-Mex Queso Recipe
Bob Armstrong Dip aka Tex-Mex Queso Recipe A few weeks ago, I arrived home to find one of the greatest things in life – a surprise package on my doorstep. My sweet friend Pam sent me a box with a card, some bridal magazines, and The Austin Cookbook. As much as I love California, I…
Goat Castle: A True Story of Murder, Race, and the Gothic South by Karen L. Cox Book Review
Goat Castle: A True Story of Murder, Race, and the Gothic South by Karen L. Cox Book Review The lowdown from Goodreads Publication Date October 9, 2017 In 1932, the city of Natchez, Mississippi, reckoned with an unexpected influx of journalists and tourists as the lurid story of a local murder was splashed across headlines…