Waiting on Wednesday

Can't-Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Wishful Endings to spotlight and talk about the books we're excited about that we have yet to read. Generally, they are books that have yet to be released but don't have to be. It is based on Waiting on Wednesday, hosted by the fabulous at Breaking the Spine.

The new girl in town is having trouble fitting into a community that believes there's a secret Satanic cult conducting rituals in the woods. When her crush goes missing, she starts to wonder if the town's obsession with evil isn't covering up something far worse. Perfect for fans of Fear Street!

To say sixteen-year-old Audre doesn't fit in would be the understatement of the century. She's a city kid who's found herself in a rural town. The only girl at school who'd rather kiss a girl than a boy. Not to mention that the whole town believes there's a secret Satanic cult conducting rituals in the nearby woods--and Audre is a born skeptic.

When the preacher's daughter and Audre's secret crush, Elle, goes missing on Halloween weekend, the town is quick to point fingers--in Audre's direction. While they harass Audre's family for being newcomers and nonbelievers, Audre realizes she might be the only person here who can find her friend.

The deeper she goes, though, the weirder it gets. What happened to Elle--and is the evil this town is hiding really what Audre thinks it is?

Why I'm Waiting: You had me Satanic cult. This sounds like it's going to take place during the Satanic Panic, and I'm here for that.

HAPPY READING!!

Blogaversary

In case you didn't know, today marks Eight Years of Bookish Whispers. Eight Years, it honestly doesn't seem like I've been doing this for that long. I had to triple check the math was right and go back to the first few posts way back in May of 2016. Back when I started on this on a whim to just write about the books I loved and books I was excited to read. Back when I had no idea what I was in for, or how I was going to do this. Just that I wanted to share my love of books with whatever tiny little platform I could create.

At that point, I was still using the laptop I had for college and had no idea how to make my own graphic, or even what kind of reviewer I wanted to be. I didn't know what kind of theme I wanted for this blog. Back when I was reading mostly fantasy, had just moved to a new city, and started a new job. And, for some unknown reason, I thought, let's jump into this Book Blogging business with both feet and see what happens. Because apparently, I'm crazy. Also, in my defense, I brought this idea up with friends, and no one had the right mind to stop him. So, maybe none of them realized just how much Bookish Whispers would become my life.

Fast forward to today, I still have no idea what kind of reviewer I am. I just sort of spill my opinions onto the page and try to make sense of them for everyone reading. I still suck at making my own graphics, Canva is an absolute lifesaver. My theme is that I have none. Though I do have three set weekly posts of books I'm excited to read and a yearly Book BINGO Challenge with friends. I've updated my computer three times since then. I'm currently still learning how to use my new one. But so many good things have come my way in the last few years.

I now get to work with Quirk Books to talk about, read, and show off their books. Some of which have become some of my favorite books. I've been able to get to know a handful of authors that I absolutely adore, and have been introduced to some amazing people through Bookstagram. An account that is about to celebrate three years! I've been able to share my love of books with so many people and have some pretty amazing adventures with friends to new bookstores. It's been an incredible eight years full of stress, failure, and the occasional thoughts I've why am still doing this.

But every single time someone reminds me why. My views will skyrocket for new reasons, and I refuse to believe it's bots. Or, someone will comment something on my Instagram, and I'm reminded why I do this on top of my full-time job. 

So this has basically become a long way of saying thank you to everyone who has had my back in these last eight years. Who has celebrated every little victory with me, who has let me whine when things have gone sideways, and who is always up to go book shopping when I need more content. You have all been my rock and I wouldn't have managed these last eight years without here. So here's to another eight years, another ten. However long people keep reading my posts, visiting the site, and loving my Bookstagram. Bookish Whispers wouldn't be what is without you. Hell without one of you, it wouldn't even have a name. So thank you! 

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Book BINGO: Here!

HAPPY READING!!

Cover Runway Sunday

    

They say don't judge a book by its cover, but we all know we do it. Sometimes it's the cover that originally catches our eye, drawing us to give a book a closer look. It's the first thing we see, our first impression. Every Sunday I'm going to post some of my favorite covers of books coming soon!

On a creepy island where everyone has a strange obsession with the year 1994, a newcomer arrives, hoping to learn the truth about her son's death--but finds herself pulled deeper and deeper into the bizarrely insular community and their complicated rules...

Clifford Island. When Willow Stone finds these words written on the floor of her deceased son's bedroom, she's perplexed. She's never heard of it before, but soon learns it's a tiny island off of Wisconsin's Door County peninsula, 200 miles from Willow's home. Why would her son write this on his floor? Determined to find answers, Willow sets out for the island.

After a few days on Clifford, Willow realizes: this place is not normal. Everyone seems to be stuck in a particular day in 1994: they wear outdated clothing, avoid modern technology, and, perhaps most mystifyingly, watch the OJ Simpson car chase every evening. When she asks questions, people are evasive, but she learns one thing: close your curtains at night.

High schooler Lily Becker has lived on Clifford her entire life, and she is sick of the island's twisted mythology and adhering to the rules. She's been to the mainland, and everyone is normal there, so why is Clifford so weird? Lily is determined to prove that the islanders' beliefs are a sham. But are they?

Five weeks after Willow arrives on the island, she disappears. Willow's brother Harper comes to Clifford searching for his sister, and when he learns the truth--that this island is far more sinister than anyone could have imagined--he is determined to blow the whole thing open.

HAPPY READING!!

Currently Listening To

When it comes to audiobooks I'm a little more picky than when it comes to the physical ones. Even if it's a book I've read before, sometimes I just feel like I'm being talked at. However, when a book releases a full-cast audio version of one of my favorite books, I reopen my Audible account just so I can both parts. Then proceed to ignore my physical reads to listen to this bad boy. Because I can do what I want. It also helps that I'm very much in love with Sevro, and yes I know that's not the best. 

But, here we are.

So I'm only a couple of hours into this and I'm loving it. Even though I know pain is coming, so much pain. Still, it's great, and I realize there was so much I missed in the first reading that I'm discovering through this second read. I'm even reading along with my physical copy and highlighting pieces as we go. There's no reason behind my highlighting, just great one-liners and just deep moments Pierce put into Darrow's thoughts. Things I want to remember when I read this book again. Because this really is a series, I could read it again and again. 

If you haven't checked out the Red Rising series, than this is your call to do it. It's so much more than just a science fiction, dystopian novel. Pierce has created an amazing world and great characters that I've fallen in love with all over again. And if you have read this series, you need to check out this full cast audio version! I was this many years old when I realized Darrow was meant to be Irish, up until now it never really dawned on me. But, I'm also bad at picturing characters in novels. It's weird reading face blindness or something. 

HAPPY READING!!

National Dracula Day

Dracula was the first creature feature book I ever read. I was fairly young when I read it too, young enough I still had a babysitter over the summer. The version I read was the Great Illustrated Classics, the one edited to my read by younger readers. I even remember the librarian asking me if I really wanted to read this because might be too scary, she had no idea that only made me want to read it more. I read that version in a week and I loved it. Which is probably what lead me down the vampire spiral in middle school more. To this day I can gladly say I never made it through the first Twilight book.

Of course, loving Dracula lead me down their rabbit hole then reading the whole collection of Great Illustrated Classics, where I feel the love for all sorts of creatures and characters. It put me ahead in school when we read the full version of these books, but Dracula always remained my favorite. I've seen all the movies with him. The Universal Studio version with Bela Lugosi's version is hands down my favorite. 

Today we celebrate Dracula and its writer Bram Stoker because I can easily say this is the only one of his books I enjoy. But, I love it in that way that it's pure luck I don't have several versions of just this one book. 

HAPPY READING!!

Book Mail

This week has been so hectic. I officially took control of the kitchen I work in, which isn't a huge difference from what I was doing before. It was however a different set of hours that are not the same every single day. It all depends on what's going on in town and my staff. This is something I've never had to do, so I've been so tired. To the point I haven't picked up any of the books, I've been reading. It's working, shower, bed, with spots of social media scrolling. So when I finally remembered to check the mail this week, I was excited to see a box from Quirk Books! 

Nothing is better than unexpected book mail when your so tired your eyes hurt!

I was even more excited when I saw which book it was because I am most definitely always in Gobin mode. But, also because I've just recently taught myself to hand sew, and it's not great. Have my patches stayed on, yes, but the stitches could be better. I'm also not the best crafter, mostly because I live with one of the best crafters and I usually mooch off of her. Now maybe I won't have to. Plus, bonus points, how adorable this book is.

And, it came with my first craft! I just need to figure out what I want to put in the little baby jar. Probably rocks of some kind. 

HAPPY READING!!

Waiting on Wednesday

Can't-Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Wishful Endings to spotlight and talk about the books we're excited about that we have yet to read. Generally, they are books that have yet to be released but don't have to be. It is based on Waiting on Wednesday, hosted by the fabulous at Breaking the Spine.

Monster hunter Erica Slaughter becomes the hunted and faces her doom alone!

With the last person in her corner gone and a ruthless agent from the Order of St. George closing in, Erica Slaughter finds herself alone and without a prayer. Can she take on this horrific new monster plaguing the small town of Tribulation, New Mexico by herself, or is this the end of her story? Erica is faced with a choice to reach out to an unexpected source for help, or find herself dealing with both a monster and her human enemies alone… Erica Slaughter faces her deadliest challenge yet in the next volume of the Eisner-winning and Harvey Award-nominated series from GLAAD Award-winning author James Tynion IV (Department of Truth, The Nice House on the Lake), artist Werther Dell’Edera (Razorblades), colorist Miquel Muerto (Radiant Red), and letterer AndWorld Design (Nightwing, The Many Deaths of Laila Starr). Collects Something is Killing the Children #26-30.

Why I'm Waiting: I love this series, and I'm not emotionally ready for the next Volume.

HAPPY READING!!

New Release Tuesday

A vivid and meticulous true-crime story that exposes the deep fractures in a system that repeatedly fails to protect women, while tracking the once-cold trail of a murderer still at large.

Krystal Senyk was the kind of friend everybody a reliable confidant, a handywoman of all trades, and an infectious creative with an adventurous spirit. Most importantly, she was tough as nails. So when her best friend needed support to leave her abusive husband, Ronald Bax, Krystal leapt into action.

But soon Krystal became the new outlet for Bax’s rage. He terrorized and intimidated her for months on end, and finally issued a chilling warning to her and his the hunt is on . Krystal was scared but she was she reached out to the RCMP for a police escort home. The officer brushed her off.

Bax’s threat had been all too real. At 29 years old, the woman who seemed invincible—who was a beloved sister, daughter, and friend—was shot and killed at her home in the Yukon. Ronald Bax disappeared without a trace.

Three decades later, Eliza Robertson has re-opened the case. In compelling, vibrant prose, she works tirelessly to piece together Krystal’s story, retracing the dire failings of Canadian law enforcement and Bax’s last steps. I Got a Name uses one woman’s tragic story to boldly interrogate themes of gender-based violence and the pervasive issues that plague our society. In this riveting true-crime story about victimhood, power, and control, Robertson examines the broken system in place, and if it isn’t looking out for the vulnerable, the threatened, the hunted—who among us is it protecting?

HAPPY READING!!

National Sherlock Holmes Day

Today is Arther Conan Doyle's birthday, which makes today National Sherlock Holmes Day. Like most, I was introduced to the Sherlock Holmes series in school, and while most of the class hated it, like any classic we were forced to read, I fell in love. I've read Hound of the Baskervilles so much I've lost count, it's my favorite of the entire series. I've also read so many spin-off series, both good and bad. Not to mention the number of movies and TV Shows I've also seen. Also both good and bad. One had dinosaurs in it, and for the life of me, I cannot remember why. Still, the stories still remain some of my favorites, and I have collected several versions of Hound of the Baskervilles and probably will collect more in the near future.

My prized possession is the complete works edition that my parents got me many, many Christmas ago. Yeah, it's the Barnes and Noble one, but it's so pretty with its built-in bookmark and gold edges. I've never actually used it for reading because I'm so worried I'll mess up the pages or something. But, it's one of my favorite books that I own. 

So today to celebrate I might watch one of the movies, thanks to an amazing lady I even own some of the old-school Sherlock Holmes on DVD, might be time to dust those off.

HAPPY READING!!

Cover Runway Sunday

    

They say don't judge a book by its cover, but we all know we do it. Sometimes it's the cover that originally catches our eye, drawing us to give a book a closer look. It's the first thing we see, our first impression. Every Sunday I'm going to post some of my favorite covers of books coming soon!

A young woman's secretive midwestern town is engulfed by a mysterious plague of tornadoes every generation–and she must escape it before it claims her.

Stephen King’s The Mist meets David Lynch’s Twin Peaks in this inventive, mind-bending horror-thriller.

In a small town tucked away in the midwestern corn fields, the adults whisper about Tornado Day. Our narrator, a high school sophomore, has never heard this phrase but she soon discovers its terrible meaning: a plague of sentient tornadoes is coming to destroy them.

The only thing that stands between the town and total annihilation is a teen boy known as the tornado killer. Drawn to this enigmatic boy, our narrator senses an unnatural connection between them. But the adults are hiding a secret about the origins of the tornadoes and the true nature of the tornado killer—and our narrator must escape before the primeval power that binds them all comes to claim her.

Audaciously conceived and steeped in existential dread, this genre-defying novel reveals the mythbound madness at the heart of American life.

HAPPY READING!!

Waiting on Wednesday

Can't-Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Wishful Endings to spotlight and talk about the books we're excited about that we have yet to read. Generally, they are books that have yet to be released but don't have to be. It is based on Waiting on Wednesday, hosted by the fabulous at Breaking the Spine.

At Camp Mirror Lake, terror is the name of the game . . . but can you survive the night?

This heart-pounding slasher by New York Times bestselling author Kalynn Bayron is perfect for fans of Fear Street.

Charity Curtis has the summer job of her dreams, playing the “final girl” at Camp Mirror Lake. Guests pay to be scared in this full-contact terror game, as Charity and her summer crew recreate scenes from a classic slasher film, Curse of Camp Mirror Lake. The more realistic the fear, the better for business.

But the last weekend of the season, Charity's co-workers begin disappearing. And when one ends up dead, Charity's role as the final girl suddenly becomes all too real. If Charity and her girlfriend Bezi hope to survive the night, they'll need figure out what this killer is after. Is there is more to the story of Mirror Lake and its dangerous past than Charity ever suspected?

Why I'm Waiting: I love a good Camp Slasher!

HAPPY READING!!

New Release Tuesday

Overturn everything you knew about history’s greatest minds in this raucous and hilarious book, where it turns out there's a finer line between "genius" and "idiot" than we've previously known. “As Albert Einstein almost certainly never said, everyone is a genius – but if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.” So begins Katie Spalding’s spunky takedown of the Western canon, and how the genius may not be as irrefutably great as we commonly understand. While most of us may never become Einstein, it may surprise you to learn that there’s probably a bunch of stuff you can do that Einstein couldn’t. And, as Spalding shows, the famous prodigies she explores here were quite odd by any definition. For
 
Edison's Ghosts is filled with examples of the so-called best of humanity doing, to put it bluntly, some really dumb shit.  You’ll discover stories that deserve to be told but never the hilarious, regrettable, and downright bafflingly lesser-known achievements that never made it into our history books, until now.

HAPPY READING!!

Reading Check-In

My sleep schedule, and work schedule, have been all over the place the last few weeks. So it's been hard to really sit down and read outside of my days off. But, I'm reading three great books. One is a re-read that just got a full-cast audiobook. So despite already reading two other books, I downloaded part one. I'm always looking for a reason to restart the Red Rising series by Pierce Brown. 

I second put Raptor Red on the back burner because Salem's Lot is finally picking up. Currently, I don't have much of an opinion on it because I'm only twenty pages into it. It's as weird as I thought it would be though.

'Salem's Lot moved a lot slower than I thought it would. The first half of the book is really just a slice of small-town life. Now everything is starting to pick up. I'm not finding this scary exactly, but it's interesting. At the same time, I could care less about most of these characters. The Marsten House has my attention and the weird history surrounding it. 

This is probably going to be a mid-Stephen King read for me. Not a favorite, but an interestingly, spooky, small-town, kind of horror novel.

HAPPY READING!!

Cover Runway Sunday

    

They say don't judge a book by its cover, but we all know we do it. Sometimes it's the cover that originally catches our eye, drawing us to give a book a closer look. It's the first thing we see, our first impression. Every Sunday I'm going to post some of my favorite covers of books coming soon!

When a mysterious little free library (guarded by a large orange cat) appears overnight in the small town of Martinville, eleven-year-old Evan plucks two weathered books from its shelves, never suspecting that his life is about to change.

Evan and his best friend Rafe quickly discover a link between one of the old books and a long-ago event that none of the grown-ups want to talk about. The two boys start asking questions whose answers will transform not only their own futures but the town itself.

Told in turn by a ghost librarian named Al, an aging (but beautiful) cat named Mortimer, and Evan himself, The Lost Library is a timeless story from award-winning authors Rebecca Stead and Wendy Mass. It’s about owning your truth, choosing the life you want, and the power of a good book (and, of course, the librarian who gave it to you).

HAPPY READING!!

Night Worms Unboxing

May Theme: Fables & Folklore

It's that time again! I found a Night Worms package in my mailbox. I was super excited about this one because it has Cassandra Khaw's new book! I have many of their books on my TBR, and I recently added Nothing But Blackened Teeth to my physical TBR. One of these books must be on my travel TBR next month. Also, just realized this is the second V. Castro book on my TBR. That thing is seriously getting out of control.

The goodie bag was brilliant as always. I can't wait to add this month's sticker to my new laptop that's currently on the way! This month's package also is helping me along with slowly refill our fridge with new magnets, and this one was super cute! I might try to make this month's hot beverage iced considering that we seemed to have skipped Spring here in the Pacific Northwest and barreled right into summer. 

HAPPY READING!!

Book Haul

 So I got a promotion at work this week, which WOOHOO! It wasn't exactly sprung on me, but it was still exciting all the same. This of course means after I officially accepted the position and the pieces were handled, I celebrated by jumping over to my favorite thrift store and digging up some books. Which is also a gamble because I don't always find something to add to my growing collection. But, I also really just love digging through the books. 

This trip paid off though. I found three books to add to my collection. Recently I've been adding old True Crime books to my shelves, for a plethora of reasons. But, I lucked out and found one of those, which I rarely find in this location. There was also a large stack of Choose Your Own Adventure books, like the OG ones. So I picked the most ridiculous looking two. These will defiantly be poolside, beach, and reads this summer.

HAPPY READING!!

Most Anticipated pt. 1 Update

 

So back in December, I posted about the books I was most excited to read in the first half of 2023. A post you can find here! We're also only a month away from those six months to be up. This is probably a whole other post about why the time has seemed to speed up. 

This is not that post. This is just a check-in to show if I've managed to read any of those books, or just buy them. Because remember, those are different things! 

• They're Watching You (TBR)
• What Lied in the Woods (TBR)
• How to Sell a Haunted House (Own)
• Pinata (Currently Borrowed)
• The Last Heir to Blackwood Library (Own)
• Episode Thirteen (Own)
• My Dear Henry (TBR)
• The Pledge (TBR)
• The Nightmare Man (Read)
• Battle of the Beast (Read)
• Four Found Dead (Just Released)
• A House with Good Bones (Own)
• Sister, Maiden, Monster (TBR)
• All Hallow (TBR)
• The Grimoire of Grave Fates (Coming Soon)

True to form I've added most of this list to my physical TBR. The two books I've read were good, I enjoyed both. I do need to jump into Pinata soon before it's due back at the library. And, I just added Episode Thirteen to my physical TBR last weekend. That one feels like a beach read.

So without a doubt, I have a ton of great books sitting on my TBR. Not just from this list, but so many I need to pull from the library this summer. Or just added to soon to topple TBR pile here at the house!

HAPPY READING!!

Waiting on Wednesday

 Can't-Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Wishful Endings to spotlight and talk about the books we're excited about that we have yet to read. Generally, they are books that have yet to be released but don't have to be. It is based on Waiting on Wednesday, hosted by the fabulous at Breaking the Spine.

Crack open your spell book and enter the world of the illustrious Galileo Academy for the Extraordinary. There's been a murder on campus, and it's up to the students of Galileo to solve it. Follow 18 authors and 18 students as they puzzle out the clues and find the guilty party.

Professor of Magical History Septimius Dropwort has just been murdered, and now everyone at the Galileo Academy for the Extraordinary is a suspect.

A prestigious school for young magicians, the Galileo Academy has recently undergone a comprehensive overhaul, reinventing itself as a roaming academy in which students of all cultures and identities are celebrated. In this new Galileo, every pupil is welcome—but there are some who aren't so happy with the recent changes. That includes everyone's least favorite professor, Septimius Dropwort, a stodgy old man known for his harsh rules and harsher punishments. But when the professor's body is discovered on school grounds with a mysterious note clenched in his lifeless hand, the Academy's students must solve the murder themselves, because everyone's a suspect.

Told from more than a dozen alternating and diverse perspectives, The Grimoire of Grave Fates follows Galileo's best and brightest young magicians as they race to discover the truth behind Dropwort's mysterious death. Each one of them is confident that only they have the skills needed to unravel the web of secrets hidden within Galileo's halls. But they're about to discover that even for straight-A students, magic doesn't always play by the rules. . . .

Contributors include: Cam Montgomery, Darcie Little Badger, Hafsah Faizal, Jessica Lewis, Julian Winters, Karuna Riazi, Kat Cho, Kayla Whaley, Kwame Mbalia, L. L. McKinney, Marieke Nijkamp, Mason Deaver, Natasha Díaz, Preeti Chhibber, Randy Ribay, Tehlor Kay Mejia, Victoria Lee, and Yamile Saied Méndez

Why I'm Waiting: This sounds like it might be a lot of fun!

HAPPY READING!!

New Release Tuesday

A young squire tackles mysteries, monsters, and magic, but the inept knight he serves takes the credit. Every time.

Squire is brainy, bookish, and terribly under-appreciated by the brawny, inept knight Sir Kelton, who somehow always gets all the glory. So when the two mismatched heroes find themselves in a cursed village plagued by a demonic dragon, Kelton rides off to slay it and Squire stays behind to catch up on some reading. But Squire starts to notice that something isn’t quite right about this town . . . Can he uncover its strange secrets?

HAPPY READING!!

Book Mail

I got a surprise book mail over the weekend. According to my tracking information, it wasn't supposed to arrive until later this week. It was also one of those packages I forgot about because it was preordered and not only had a slept since then, but my work-life balance actually exists. I tend to forget things when I don't have a reminder of them.

So a surprise all around, and gave me something to look forward to coming home to.  

I adore this series, it's so much fun. I stumbled across these comics, I don't even know how long ago, at Emerald City ComicCon. Since then I've jumped on every Kickstarter when a new set of comics in the series came out. Now I have the short story collection!

It's already sitting on my TBR pile next to my bed. Without a doubt, it'll be the next book I pick up after I finish what I'm currently reading!

You can find more about the Major Holmes series here! This series is a lot of fun, and it's time for a reread!

HAPPY READING!!

Cover Runway Sunday

    

They say don't judge a book by its cover, but we all know we do it. Sometimes it's the cover that originally catches our eye, drawing us to give a book a closer look. It's the first thing we see, our first impression. Every Sunday I'm going to post some of my favorite covers of books coming soon!

When Francie arrives in Roswell, New Mexico, for her college roommate's UFO-themed wedding—complete with a true-believer groom—she can't help but roll her eyes at all the talk of aliens, which patently don't exist. Imagine her surprise, then, when she gets abducted by one.

Her abductor is not your typical alien—not gray, or a reptilian, or anything else the popular media might have led her to expect. Instead, the creature is more like an animate tumbleweed—a mass of lightning-fast tentacles and unexpected charm, given that it has no apparent ability to communicate beyond pointing.

Worse, the alien’s second abductee—an endearing con man named Wade—only compounds the problem, for Francie was supposed to spend the weekend talking her roommate out of the wedding, not falling in love herself. How can a guy who sells anti-abduction insurance for a living still manage to be the most sensible, decent man she has ever met?

The more Francie gets to know her abductor, however, the more certain she becomes that the alien is in trouble and needs her help—though she has no idea what the problem is, or how to solve it. Especially as the alien’s abduction spree seems far from over.

But with Wade’s assistance, Francie is determined to get their new friend to its destination—wherever that might be. Because who knows what could be at risk should they fail?

HAPPY READING!!

May Spotlight

 

I don't read a lot of nonfiction, I honestly should though, but when I do pick a nonfiction book it's either True Crime or something like Edison's Ghosts. A book filled with random, and most weird, little facts about history. It's why Edison's Ghosts is my Spotlight Read for May!

Overturn everything you knew about history’s greatest minds in this raucous and hilarious book, where it turns out there's a finer line between "genius" and "idiot" than we've previously known. “As Albert Einstein almost certainly never said, everyone is a genius – but if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.” So begins Katie Spalding’s spunky takedown of the Western canon, and how genius may not be as irrefutably great as we commonly understand. While most of us may never become Einstein, it may surprise you to learn that there’s probably a bunch of stuff you can do that Einstein couldn’t. And, as Spalding shows, the famous prodigies she explores here were quite odd by any definition. For
 
Edison's Ghosts is filled with examples of the so-called best of humanity doing, to put it bluntly, some really dumb shit.  You’ll discover stories that deserve to be told but never the hilarious, regrettable, and downright bafflingly lesser-known achievements that never made it into our history books, until now.

HAPPY READING!!