mental institution Archives

Doctor Olaf van Schuler’s Brain by Kirsten Menger-Anderson

by Bubbly Bibbly | Sep 8, 2020 | Book Review, Historical Fiction

Summary: In 1664 Dr. Olaf van Schuler flees the Old World and arrives in New Amsterdam with his lunatic mother, two bags of medical implements, and a carefully guarded book of his own medicines. He is the first in what will become a long line of peculiar physicians....

Tuscaloosa by W. Glasgow Phillips

by Bubbly Bibbly | Aug 5, 2020 | Book Review

Summary: They have one summer to find what was lost long ago. “Never settle for less than the truth,” she told him. But when you don’t even know your real name, the truth gets a little complicated. It can nestle so close to home it’s hard to...

The Drowning Tree by Carol Goodman

by Bubbly Bibbly | Aug 5, 2020 | Book Review, Crime/Mystery/Thriller

Summary: Juno McKay intended to avoid the nearby campus of her alma mater during her fifteenth reunion weekend, but she just can’t turn down the chance to see her longtime friend, Christine Webb, speak at the Penrose College library. Though Juno cringes at the...

Ten Days in a Mad-House by Nellie Bly

by Bubbly Bibbly | Jun 2, 2018 | Book Review, Nonfiction

Summary: In 1887, Nellie Bly accepted an assignment from publisher Joseph Pulitzer of the New York World and went undercover at the lunatic asylum on Blackwell Island, America’s first municipal mental hospital. Calling herself “Nellie Brown,” she was...