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This week, we're looking at a great romance that serves as the introduction to a new series. This week, we're looking at Saving Grace by Vi Carter.

In the opening scene of this book, we're introduced to several friends at a bonfire. This group of friends will all play parts in this book while also setting up future ...

This week, on my beloved University of Georgia Bulldogs' off week, we're looking at a book about college football told from the perspective of a female lead who is not a football fan. This week, we're looking at Buckman by Erin Lockwood.

This was a visceral look at one woman's rejection of all things relating to fame... even as she falls in love with one of the most famous athletes in college football. April Moxley is the daughter of the drummer of legendary ro...

This week, we return to nonfiction and in particular Christian nonfiction. This week, we're looking at Marked By Love by Tim Stevens.

This was a 200+ page narrative built around the idea that Christians are supposed to be "marked by love" and exploring what this might look like if it were more readily apparent in the life of the modern American Christian. Stevens pulls no punches, and at times it seems that he is trying to step on as many toes as possible in an effort to show that no matter how loving you may think you are, there are always areas to work to improve on in this regard.

And by and large, Stevens does an amaz...

September 2018 turned out to be all about trilogies - from starting the month reading a book about movies in pop culture that frequently cited Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy to following it with a romance trilogy to ending the month with a trilogy about zombie dinosaurs and a 'trilogy' of some of the remaining nonfiction books on the #2018TBR project.

The highlight of the month was the surprise announcement of the LONG anticipated sequel to Steven Savile's 2011 book SILVER, GOLD, at the beginning of the month and its release just two weeks later. Which contained the most horrifically beautiful scene I have ever seen in a book.

Overall, I read 15 books in September 2018, per Goodreads. Five of them in just the last four days of the month. I now stand at 105 books read on the year, with at least five ARCs still outstanding. Of the 15 books this month, there were three series - Jamie Beck's St James trilogy, Rick Chesler and David Sakmyster's Jurassic Dead trilogy, and DJ Jamison's Real Estate Relations series. There were three nonfiction books, Nate Silver's 2012 The Signal and The Noise, Brendan McDonough's Granite Mountain/ My Lo...

This week, we feature a book that produced a longer wait between books than even George R. R. Martin is infamous for. This week, we feature a book that I have waited more than SIX YEARS for, and other fans have waited over SEVEN YEARS for. This week, we feature Gold by Steven Savile.

Roughly six years ago, I was introduced to a "Secret World" Facebook book club by an author friend of mine who it turns out I gave the first review of his first book. In this new world, I met several authors and fellow readers alike, and have developed strong friendships with some of them, which is how I met Savile. At the time, one of the main books he was talking about was called SILVER, a story of a diverse team of spies, assassins, and soldiers came ...

This week, we're checking in on the real estate market in Fields, Kansas, specifically as it relates to commercial real estate suitable for a new deli. This week, we feature Buyer's Remorse by DJ Jamison.

This book is the second in Jamison's "Real Estate Relations" series and features leads who were secondary characters in the first book, Full Disclosure. In Full Disclosure, we meet Lee when he has to flee into an even more secretive form of witness protection after he is nearly killed thanks to a mole inside the US Marshall's Service. He flees to Fields, Kansas with his guard, Reid, and they go undercover as boyfriend...

This week, we find ourselves reading a great new adult romance with a tinge of science fiction. This week, we feature Infinite Blue by Darren and Simon Groth.

This book starts with an imperiled teenager - he is caught in a riptide, can't get out, and is getting too tired to continue. A world class swimmer happens to be nearby and saves him... and they begin dating.

We next cut to a scene some months later, ...

This week, we turn to a science book that proved to be utterly fascinating. This week, we turn to Sleepyhead by British science journalist Henry Nicholls.

As we find out at the very beginning of this book, Nicholls has a very personal reason for looking into the science of sleep and sleep disorders - he himself is narcoleptic. And his own narcolepsy becomes the narrative that ties the entire book together.

In this extremely well researched book - the last 24% of the book is nothing but bibliography and index -, we get a personal and scientific look at narcolepsy, its origins...

The highlight of this month - and easily in the running for highlight of the year - was finally meeting Jeremy Robinson in real life at Robinsonfest 2018 after having known him online for a decade. I flew into Boston for the first time in my life, for a weekend of firsts as far as locations, some modes of transport, and even some activities. I mean, how often in your life do you get to cosplay as yourself AND "cause the Apocalypse" while doing so? (Which is what is happening in the pic - here, I've just "planted corn". When I did that in the book Jeremy wrote that I appear in, I wind up accidentally causing the Apocalypse.) I covered all of it in a post here both before and after the event, along with a couple of YouTube