Wednesday, December 13, 2023

Review: Marvel's Midnight Suns

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Marvel's Midnight Suns is Firaxis' turn based card game set in the Marvel Universe. I usually enjoy Firaxis's strategy games, a...
Tuesday, December 12, 2023

2023 Bahamas: Nov 18th Prologue

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 The thing with planning a trip a year ahead is that by the time you have to execute it you forgot how you ended up booking a place like Mar...
Monday, December 11, 2023

Reread: The Magic Engineer

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 The Magic Engineer is the third book in the Recluce series, and now several foreshadowings that were in the first book finally come to be ...
Thursday, December 07, 2023

Reread: The Towers of Sunset

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 The Towers of Sunset is the second book in the Recluce series. Unusual for a fantasy series, Modesitt doesn't tell his epic saga in ch...
Wednesday, December 06, 2023

Long Term Review: Kindle Scribe

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 After I showed my kids the kindle scribe , they fought over drawing on it multiple times. So when there was another sale, I traded in their...
Monday, December 04, 2023

Reread: The Magic of Recluce

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 I remember liking The Magic of Recluce alot, but never read the series past 3 books or so. So when Humble Bundle was selling the entire se...
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Friday, December 01, 2023

2024 Book Reviews Index

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2024 Books of the Year were chosen!  Fiction Practical Magic Trigger Warning Starter Villain The Magic of Recluce The Towers of Sunset The ...
Thursday, November 30, 2023

Review: Starter Villain

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 Starter Villain is John Scalzi's conspiracy-leading novel about a secret cabal of villains working together to exploit mankind, and ge...
Monday, November 27, 2023

Review: Practical Magic

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 I don't even remember how P ractical Magic ended up in my borrow queue at the library. Once I did check it out, however, I got sucked ...
Thursday, November 23, 2023

Review: Trigger Warning

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 Trigger Warning is Neil Gaiman's latest collection of short fiction and poetry.  I bounced off it the first time I tried to read it, a...
Monday, November 20, 2023

Review: Jobst Brandt Ride Bike!

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It's no secret that I'd been a follower of the late Jobst Brandt for many years, and have indeed read all of his trip reports hoping...
Thursday, November 16, 2023

Review: The Age of Scientific Wellness

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 The Age of Scientific Wellness is an attempt to tell the same story as Peter Attia's Outlive. The authors co-founded Arivale , which f...
Wednesday, November 15, 2023

2023 Books of the Year Selection

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 This year, I read 42 non-fiction books, 36 novels, 11 graphic novels (actually much more than that since I'm only counting reviews an...
Monday, November 13, 2023

Review: The Fourth Turning Is Here

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 The Fourth Turning Is Here is a rehash of Neil Howe and William Strauss' classic book of cliodynamics, Generations . Howe & Straus...
Thursday, November 09, 2023

Review: How We Learn

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 How We Learn is a book about how the human brain works as far as learning is concerned. You've probably know of the results from previ...
Monday, November 06, 2023

Review: Elder Race

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 Elder Race is Adrian Tchaikovsky's fantasy/science fiction novel set in a colony of Earth that has lost contact with the home planet. ...
Thursday, November 02, 2023

Review: The World of JRR Tolkien

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 The World of JRR Tolkein is a series of 8 lectures on Tolkein. Rather than just the Lord of the Rings, the Hobbit and the Silmarillion wer...
Monday, October 30, 2023

Review: Books that Matter - The Prince

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 I've heard of The Prince but never read it, but I did use one of my audible credits to pick up the great courses lecture series about T...
Thursday, October 26, 2023

Review: The Poppy War

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 The Poppy War is R. F. Kuang's fantasy retelling of the Rape of Nanking. The book starts off like a typical fantasy novel set in an Ea...
Monday, October 23, 2023

Reread: House of Suns

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 I found myself re-reading House of Suns again recently, and it strikes me as the perfect Alastair Reynolds novel. I found myself once agai...