Book Review: The Cursed Thief By Matt James

07-02-2026

Scooby Doo x National Treasure x Tomb Raider In Island Hopping Caribbean Adventure. With Pirates. This is a really fun tale that keeps you on the edge of your seat

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Book Review: That Catskill Summer By Bart Charlow

06-30-2026

Romance From A Dude's Perspective, Dirty Dancing Style. I was a (small) kid when Dirty Dancing came out in the late 80s. I remember finding it on VHS at my friend's house (his grandmother's house, where he frequently lived in this era), watching it as

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Book Review: A Furious Sky By Eric Jay Dolin

06-28-2026

Ideological Bias Leaves Hint Of Bitter Aftertaste, But Narrative Does Return To Form To Save Overall Taste And Complexity. This is a book that is exactly what it says it is - a 500 ish year history of the death and destruction caused by the hurricanes and similar storms that have affected the land now known as America. Beginning from Columbus' sailings and go

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Book Review: No Treason By Lysander Spooner

06-28-2026

Every American Should Read This Every July 4th. Particularly For the 250th July 4th. The United States Declaration Of Independence is truly amazing reading when you get past the first few words virtually everyone knows ("We, the People,...") and into the list of

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Book Review: The Last Senator By Bowen Greenwood

06-26-2026

Strong Scifi Action/ Survival Tale With Romantasy Elements. The description of this book (as it exists as I write this review about 6 weeks or so after publication) says that this book is a cross between Tom Clancy and Independence Day, and that's really a pretty fair assessment. There is a lot of alien fighting, including one s

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Book Review: Shaken To The Core By Dara Levan

06-25-2026

Read The Title Of This Book. You Have Been Warned. Seriously, this is one of those books that starts off pretty damned dark - in the days after a woman's mom dies - and doesn't really get any brighter. Indeed, in a lot of ways it gets even darker. Never *illegal* levels of dark, but among the

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Book Review: The Girl On The Beach By Carol Snow

06-25-2026

Solid Enough Psychological Suspense Can Be Confusing At Times. This is one of those psychological suspense thrillers where you truly begi

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Book Review: Working Class Hero By Kay Bratt

06-25-2026

Not The Tale I Wanted. Bratt's Usual Excellence Anyway. Coming out of Ticket To Ride, I was *psyched* that it looked like we were about to get a tale that mirrored my own life in rural Georgia in at least certain

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Book Review: The Underground Sisters By Soraya M Lane

06-19-2026

Lane In Her Lane At Her Best. This book is Lane returning to the straight historical after a multi-year adventure in combining her romance and historical sides with the L

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Book Review: Been There Done That By Greg Jackson

06-18-2026

Required Reading For Every American Who Thinks These Are Unprecedented Times. Yes, I mean exactly what I said in the title of this review. No matter your particular bent of what you think is so bad - election/ voting fraud, political violence, "fake news", whatever - Jackson does a tremendous job here of taking mostly examples even *I*, as studiou

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