Ctruth

It’s 3am on Monday morning but I still consider this Sunday. It was a very busy week for me but I managed to get some deception studies work done. Monday: Read Kelsey’s. Finished Pantheon. I’ll be posting my notes on it sometime next week. Tuesday: Started Invincible. Started Thomas Edward Bridgett’s Blunders and Forgeries (1890).…

It’s Sunday night, technically Monday morning at 1am. This week I read a few books and started taking deception-related notes on a popular show. I’ve been knocking out some of the books on my list with early publication dates. See my journal notes below. Monday: I read Oscar Wilde’s The Decay of Lying (1891). I…

Another busy week but I did manage to finish reading two books. Monday: Read part of Chambers’ History and Motives of Literary Forgeries (1891) and part of McCabe’s History’s Greatest Liars (1951). Did some searching for deception related book titles to see what was available in English from the 19th century. Revisited this website: https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/browse?type=lcsubc&key=Literary%20forgeries%20and%20mystifications%20%2d%2d%20Early%20works%20to%201800&c=x…

This past week I read some short essays, updated some spreadsheets, posted some book reviews, and brainstormed some book ideas. See my daily breakdown below. Monday I starting compiling questions for a deception journal that aims to get you more in tune with how interwoven deception is within society and history. But as I was…

I had another really busy week but did manage to finish another book. This one was Rodger and Lazaroff’s History’s Greatest Deceptions and Confidence Scams. It was similar to the one I finished in the previous week, in that it’s a compilation of deception episodes from throughout history, but it was way worse. I’m giving…

This past week was incredibly busy for me and I only ended up finishing reading Eric Chaline’s History’s Greatest Deceptions: And the People Who Planned Them. I still have to write the review for it and for Levine’s Duped. Chaline’s book is getting 4/5 stars, Levine’s is getting 5/5. I haven’t picked out a new book…

It’s Sunday night around 11pm as I type this intro. When I started doing these journal posts a few weeks ago I was planning on posting on Saturday’s but now as time has played out, Saturday’s are pretty busy and Sundays are working out better. The new plan is to just post on Saturday or…

A light rain hits all it can outside as I write this. It’s Saturday, October 14th and my relevant activities this past week have been marked by updates to my library of deception’s spreadsheet and by learning about the supposedly “slightly better than chance” odds of lie detection indicated by the majority of past deception…