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Confino Expands In Unexpected Direction. One thing that I absolutely love about Confino's books is that both she and her characters are unabashedly Jewish - yet they also don't preach it. They *live* it and do not apologize for it at all... yet also do not make a spectacle of it. (A lot of Christians - and Christian authors - could learn from this model, truly.)

Here, Confino takes her story into very nearly thriller terri...

C.S. Lewis Warned Us About This. C.S. Lewis wrote in 1949 that "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." Here, we have an entire book of exactly that kind of elitist, disdainful tyranny.

Larson openly admits to being a thief in several instances within this text. Her own actions as documented within this text show her to be a hypocrite. She actively denies objective reality in claiming that FDR's support of unionism was a good thing, when it actually and objectively extended the Great Depression nearly twice as long as it would have gone without FDR's price-fixing policies, including his support of unions.

And yet she is *absolutely sure* she knows *exactly* what would help the very people she had to lower herself to be around because she had no other choice and had to find any possible work available to her. Truly, this is the worst part of this entire narrative, is Larson's elitist disdain for everything and everyone around her that is positively *dripping* from these pages. She alone knows what will save these people, and she alone will force them to accept her help whether they want her involvement or not.

I've worked in a supermarket myself - apparently longer than Larson did, as I worked there for 2? 3? yrs at...

Utterly Disgusting LGBT Stephen King x Jeremy Robinson Cross. If you're familiar with the works of King (specifically Carrie and/ or his more.. *ahem* out there *ahem*... takes) or Jeremy Robinson (TORMENT specifically), those alone will give you a fairly solid idea what to expect as an overall story here. Throw in heavy and explicit LGBT elements (including *technically* closed door, yet still well-heard "spice") of a variety of sexualities, and now you've got an eve...

Fun Scifi Adventure Chasing Pirate Treasure. This is a fun scifi adventure that takes its cues more from the Dane Maddock universe of David Wood than from a more classic Indiana Jones type - and is actually quite stronger for it. One where Chesler's real-world diving experience is on full display in its vivi...

Utterly Fascinating Parallels Between History Of Cold Food Tech And AI. This is the book I was reading on my walks in May 2026, and it was truly utterly fascinating to see the parallels between the history of cold food storage and transportation technology - a history of basically the past 150 yrs in particular, though Twilley does indeed also cover how food was cooled and stored before that period as well - and that of the current history-in-the-making of AI technology. One thing that stood out in particular was just how much more power is used for cold food storage and transportation than AI uses - a fact that actually checks out upon an independent deep dive. Another was the rapidity of societal change from "this new tech is harmful" to "this new tech...

Whole Lot Of History. Very Little Baseball. The biggest thing I can tell you about this book in a review is that if you're expecting a baseball tale - ie, a tale of the game itself... well, technically that is here... but it is less than 10% of the overall text, with another 10% being the bibliography. Meaning 80% of the volume of this book is anything *other than* the titular game.

Now, don't get me wrong here. Sullivan does a *phenomenal* job tracing the history of virtually everyone who had anything...

Baseball As Background Yet Overall Enjoyable Enough. This is one of those books that has several flaws - some easily fixed, others not so easily fixed - such that none of them individually are really *that* big of a problem, but in any combination amount to enough of a problem to give many readers at least some pause. Thus, while there isn't a single issue to hang any particular star deduction on, each of these issues are significant enough to me to be something like a 0.6 star deduction individually... which adds up to 1.8 star deduction across all three, necessitating the rounding up to a 2 star deduction.

First, the one that gets so many nonfiction books: The bibliography clocks in at just 14%, which is *just* shy of the 15% I normally expect (itself a loosened form of my former 20% expectation). Still, I think I've allowed even 12-13% to skate by before... except that in this case (and this next bit may well be corrected in the final published version rather than the Advance Review Copy version I've had for roughly 4.5 months prior to publication), Baird gets a rather well known fact - a fact so well known it is literally enshrined in the Major Leag...

Interesting History Marred By Substandard Bibliography. This text essentially takes Cat Tale by Craig Pittman and does for elk, buffalo, and red wolves what Pittman did for the Florida panther - explain the historic ecology of the animal, how humans nearly wiped it out, and what humans are doing to try to restore it. And yes, even without directly naming Pittman in the text, the story of the Florida panther is at least briefly mentioned here, specifically as it relates to similar issues and interventions with the red wolves.

Along the way, we're going to meet a *lot* of humans and see their roles in the fall and rise of these species, and we're going to get a *lot* of discussion of both plant and animal ecology... and how the two dif...