09-19-2025
The BlueSky Crowd Will Love This Goldmine. "Clashing regional cultures" didn't shatter America. America is strong and survived this for generations. What has shattered America in these past 20 ish years has been the hyper partisanship and doomerism that Nate Silver now calls "BlueSkyism" - which is why that crowd will love this book. Everyone else, don't waste your time.
With that TL;DR already dealt with, let's dive into the details. First, "goldmine", above. My personal worst possible rating for a book. It means you're shifting through a ton of shit to find something redeemable... but at least there *is* a fleck or two of someth
[Continue Reading]09-19-2025
Second In Series Shows Strong Growth. Yeah, I couldn't find an "s" word to keep the alliteration through the title. Bummer. But that is on me.
For Evans, she breaks ground in a couple of different ways with this book that at least in my reading of her books over the years, I've never once seen her do - thus showing trem
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Solid Second Stage. The easiest way to describe this series, for those who haven't read the first book, is to imagine the TV show Blue Blo
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The Dust In The Room Slowly Builds Up. This is one of those books where the first half in particular is rathe
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Solid Book Three Is So Different From Others In Series That It Can Serve As An Introduction. This book is very different than most third books in a series in that it is *so v
[Continue Reading]09-11-2025
For this blog tour, we're looking at a masterful thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat. For this blog tour, we're looking at A Killer Motive by Hannah Mary McKinnon.
First, the review I posted to the book sites (BookBub.com / BookHype.com / Goodreads.com / TheStoryGraph.com) and YouTube:
Masterful Thriller That Will Keep You On The Edge Of Your Seat. McKinnon has become a true master of the kind of suspense/ thriller where you're still on the edge of your seat and trying to figure out what comes next... when their suddenly is no more "next" to be had in the book.[Continue Reading]Now, don't ge
09-06-2025
Flawed Premise And Weirdly Exacting Time Selection Move Interesting Premise To Garbage Narrative. This is one of those books that I *wanted* to like. I *strongly* believe, based on my own historical studies over the years, that there is a truly strong case to be made for how violence has shaped the modern world in ways that most humans alive today simply aren't a
[Continue Reading]09-06-2025
Among The Best Wrestling Memoirs Ever Written. I've been reading wrestling memoirs roughly as long as Niedhart has been a professional wrestler - beginning roughly in 2001 when we were both in our late teens, maybe slightly earlier - whenever Mick Foley's first book hit mass market paperback. And yes, I've read both of Foley's early books. I've read at least one
[Continue Reading]08-28-2025
Quite Possibly Walker's Best Yet. I've been reading Walker's books for several years now, finding him with An Unfinished Journey, which was apparently his next book after the Red Mountain saga. Because of my own reading schedule - 90% of which, including Unfinished Journey and every
[Continue Reading]08-28-2025
Academic Meta-Analysis Of The Fall Of Nuclear Terror As Primary Societal Scare In The United Kingdom. First off, this is both quite short and quite well documented - clocking in at just 175 or so pages and 34% or so documentation in the Advance Review Copy I
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