Book Review: The Dark Pattern By Guido Palazzo And Ulrich Hoffrage

06-02-2025

Not So Hidden, Yet Authors Explain In Ways Perhaps Others Have Not Considered. This is one of those books that reads as though you've always known exactly what the authors are presenting... you just never considered actually breaking it out exactly like this. Part Corpo

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Book Review: The Ghostwriter By Julie Clark

06-02-2025

Complex Story of Generational Trauma. This is one of those tales that reads a touch slow - so be prepared for that - but which ultimately succeeds in having quite an emotional impact due to just how much force it lands with. When, to bring a bit of ph

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Book Review: The Hiroshima Men By Iain Macgregor

06-02-2025

Among The More Complete Histories Of The Nuclear Bombing Of Japan. Clocking in at nearly 450 pages, with only about 10% of that bibliography - and hence the star deduction - this account really is one of the more complete accounts of the entire event I've yet come acr

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Book Review: The Other Side Of Now By Paige Harbison

06-02-2025

One Of The Hardest Hitting 'Glimpse' Tales I've Ever Come Across. This is one of those 'glimpse' tales - ala The Family Man (the 2000s era movie with Nic Cage and Tea Leoni) or It's A Wonderful Life, and yet in its specific mechanics, it hit me harder than any I've c

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Book Review: Destroyer Of Worlds By Frank Close

06-01-2025

Despite Title, This Is A Physics History - Not A WWII History. Despite using J. Robert Oppenheimer's famous quote upon seeing the detonation of the first atomic bomb - quoting from the Bhagavad Gita, he proclaimed "I am become death, the destroyer of worlds" (in case you've been living under a rock and had never heard that tale) - and indeed even sho

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Book Review: Road To Surrender By Evan Thomas

06-01-2025

History In All Its Complexity. This is one of the better histories of the nuclear bombings of Japan that I've come across over the years in that it isn't "hoo-rah we didn't drop *enough* bombs on Japan!", but it also isn't "nuclear weapon

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Book Review: Fuji Fire By Chas Henry

05-30-2025

Mass Effect. September 11. Small Exurban Atlanta, Georgia. A Blimp Commonly Seen At Major US Sporting Events. All Connected By One Event. Many, many years ago - nearly as far back as the fire at the heart of this book, though I'm not quite *that* old - I attended a Family Day (or whatever they called it at the time) at the Goodyear plant in Rockmart, Ga, just outside metropolitan Atlanta at the time. My dad and several uncles all worked

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Blog Tour: The Paris Promise By Suzanne Kelman

05-22-2025

For this blog tour, we're looking at . For this blog tour, we're looking at The Paris Promise by Suzanne Kelman.

First, the review I posted to the book sites (BookHype.com / Goo

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Book Review: Lie In The Tide By Holly Danvers

05-20-2025

You Think You Know Me. I fully cop to being one of those people that avoids my hometown in my adult life (other than visiting family members who continue to live there) specifically because high school was hell and I don't care to catch up with pretty well anyone from that era of my life. (To be fa

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Book Review: The Backwater By Vikki Wakefield

05-19-2025

Some Things Are Just Universal. In all honesty, reading this book as a former trailer park kid in the southeastern US (I grew up in exurban Atlanta, on the border between Atlanta and Appalachi

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