12-18-2025
Part Geologic History. Part Memoir. All Intriguing Information. This is one of those books where, like at least one other early reviewer mentioned, it is nearly as much about the author as it is his subject. So for those looking for a book more solidl
[Continue Reading]12-18-2025
Solid Summer Escapism. You know those summer movies where you just want to be entertained, so you turn your brain off
[Continue Reading]12-14-2025
Reasonably Well Documented Book Will Force You To Rethink All You Think You Know Of The Post-WWII Era. This is one of those rare history books that actively goes in to not just point out something most people missed about an era and/ or a person, but also goes to show the reader that a lot of what you thought
[Continue Reading]12-14-2025
Short Xennial Scooby-Doo Type Tale. This is one of those books that is great for an early-year release (and end of January certainly qualifies, in my mind), because it
[Continue Reading]12-05-2025
For this blog tour, we're looking at a strong magical realism/ romance/ mystery combo that leaves off a discussion that could have taken this book from solid to transcendental. For this blog tour, we're looking at The Library Of Fates by Margot Harrison.
First, the review I posted to the book sites (BookBub.com / BookHype.com / Goodreads.com / TheStoryGraph.com) and YouTube:
Strong Magical Realism/ Romance/ Mystery Combo. This book had a lot of things for a lot of readers, but curiously, it only had a single line or two about a real world version of itself. But more on that in a moment.[Continue Reading]The mysteries here are solid. There's a dual timeline going on, mostly set in the world just before the collapse in 2020, with the "current" timeline being set in late 2019 and the "then" timeline being back in the 1990s. When the two different myst
12-05-2025
For The First Time In My Life, I Feel Actively Stupider For Having Read A Book. Yes, y'all, this book is *that* bad. This isn't even "I disagree with this guy's politics and he is hyper preachy throughout the text" level, though there is that too. This is "this dude cites things that have
[Continue Reading]12-01-2025
For this blog tour, we're looking at a solid 'second screen' mystery. For this blog tour, we're looking at No One Aboard by Emy McGuire.
First, the review I posted to the book sites (BookBub.com / BookHype.com / Goodreads.com / TheStoryGraph.com) and YouTube:
Solid 'Second Screen' Book. Apparently there is a concept Netflix show/ movie producers call 'second screen' - meaning, essentially, that the video must be produced and the story easy enough to follow even as someone is actually doing something else. Thus, actions are spoken - "I'm cutting the veggies now" - and are loud and concise. Rather than simply showing the character cutting the veggies. Plots are simplified and characters a bit more stereotypical than perhaps fully fleshed out, nuanced, "real" people.[Continue Reading]This is *exactly* that kind of book - and there is absolutely *NOTHING* wrong with that. Netflix is making bank right now on exactly this type of content, so why shouldn't authors take a stab at it as well? Not everyt
12-01-2025
Solid Enough Primer. This is one of those "history of humanity" type books that attempts to take literally thousands of years of human history (including pre-history) and condense it into a sub-400 page narrative. (With 12% of its 403 Kind
[Continue Reading]11-23-2025
Spicy Trauma In Long Form. This is the third book directly in its series (fourth if you count its "backdoor pilot" book from another series where a key character + a few side characters to this book were all introduced) and is the longest by over 100 pages, according to A
[Continue Reading]11-21-2025
Another Solid Entrant Where Bratt's Heart Is Tattooed On Her Upper Arm With Her Sleeves Down. For a series that was *supposed* to end at Book 7 or so to now have doubled that speaks
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