Book Review: Alien Earths By Lisa Kaltenegger

04-09-2024

Solid Examination of The Field Of Planet Hunting. This is a solid look at how scientists find extra-solar planets and work

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Book Review: Our Fight By Ronda Rousey

04-08-2024

The End Of An Era. I write this review nearly a week after reading this book, and hours after the conclusion of Wrestlemania 40 - the beginning of a new era of WWE. Which is fitting, because so much of what Rousey

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Book Review: Shes Not Sorry By Mary Kubica

04-07-2024

Slow, Problematic (Some Say Offensive) Main Character, Largely Forgettable. Yet Good Enough. This is a book where from an objective (ish) standpoint, there really isn't mu

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Book Review: Faithful Politics By Miranda Zapor Cruz

04-05-2024

Comprehensive Look At Different Ways Different Christian Communities Have Viewed Politics Over The Millenia. This book is truly one of the most comprehensive looks at the subject that I've yet run across, a

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Book Review: The Drunken Botanist By Amy Stewart

04-05-2024

Encyclopedic Look At The Botany Of Booze. This book has a few hundred pages (or just under a dozen hours, f

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Book Review: I Will Tell No War Stories By Howard Mansfield

04-04-2024

Father. Grandfather. Farmer. Engineer. Clerk. WWII Badass. Wait. What? While this book focuses more on the air war over Britain and Europe, it does in fact get to the heart of what so many of us born in the post W

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Book Review: Becky Lynch The Man By Rebecca Quin

03-29-2024

Excellent, If Not Overly Shocking, Memoir. This is one of those memoirs where if you've known of this person for much time at all, you're already going to know a lot of the public stuff about their career - much of which is in fact covered in this particular tale, including how Rebecca Quin first became Becky Lynch before later becoming "The Man", then, in one of the most famous moments of the COVID era of WWE, her famous line to colleague Kanako Urai (better known as A

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Blog Tour: The Day Tripper By James Goodhand

03-17-2024

For this blog tour, we're looking at an interesting spin on time travel that will be difficult to read for many. For this blog tour, we're looking at The Day Tripper by James Goodhand.

Here's what I had to say on the review sites (TheStoryGraph, BookHype, Goodreads):

Interesting Spin On Time Travel. Straight up, this book won't be for everyone. It is *highly* disjointed and takes a *lot* of mental effort to follow... and that is kind of the point, with this particular bent on time travel. We experience the tale in the same way that Alex experiences his life - as singular days completely out of order, beginning on the day that starts it all. The particular reset mechanism, of waking up to a different day every time Alex falls asleep, brings to mind how Ted Dekker used the same concept to have his hero switch between the "real" world and Dekker's very blatantly allegorical world in his Circle Series. While that tale was far more linear - e

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Book Review: Danger In Numbers By Heather Graham

03-15-2024

When You Can Read A Series Out Of Order And It Still Somehow Make Sense. Seriously, I don't know what to say about a book series that you can read it completely ou

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Book Review: Everyone Is Watching By Heather Gudenkauf

03-15-2024

Solid Mystery Lacks Real World Punch Of Other Similar Works. At this point, we've all read some variant of some mystery set in and around the world of reality television, right? This is truly a solid tale

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