10-01-2026
Solid Vacation From Main Tale. This is one of those tales similar to say the Malibu Sands episodes of Saved By The Bell, or perhaps even the episodes of JAG where Mark Harmon sh
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Solid Romance... For The Right Reader. This is one of those romances novels that is going to piss a lot of people off for a lot of different reasons... and yet for the right reader is a pretty damn solid tale.
The biggest dichotomy: It has way too much praying and Christ
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Still Fun Yet Very Different From Earlier Books. This was a pretty decent departure from the previous books in that while still technically a mystery, it has a *lot* less 80
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Solid Complex Thriller. As someone whose wife at least at one point watched a fair amount of reality TV, I've been aware of the "celebrities" in that realm and the culture around them far more than I ever wanted to be, and Hi
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Interesting Use Of Grief As Horror. This is one of those books that seems unexpectedly terrifying in that you wouldn't necessarily ex
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Solid Return To Slasher Style Horror. After the more psychological/ supernatural horror of Book 3 in this series, Corpse Cree
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Action Packed, Inventive, And Horrifying. This tale combines arguably even *more* insane pacing than the most frenetic action Matthew Reilly or Jeremy Robinson have *ever* been able to pull off (which
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Solid And Comprehensive (Ish) History Of GPS And Current Issues As Of Mid-2020s. This was the next book I read on my morning walks after Killed By A Traffic Engineer by Wes Marshall and which I'm following with The Grid by Gretchen Bakke... so clearly, I still (inadvertantly?) have a theme going with
[Continue Reading]09-21-2026
Strong Continuation With Even Darker Real World Stakes. This is one of those tales that feels like it could be all *too* real, set in a "near future" that is effectively the actual present and building
[Continue Reading]09-21-2026
Something For Damn Near Everyone. Some *REALLY* Good - Some *REALLY* Bad. This is a collection of 20 short stories and 4 poems from a global variety of authors, at least a few of which I'd read before and a few more I'd at least heard of.
Fortunately/ unfortunately, most of the *really* bad stories are the *first* ones we encounter going straight through the text, meaning that at least once you get through those stories, the rest of the book really picks up.
Mostly the really bad are preachy politics that would get a single star deduction from me if they were standalone stories - these include Lee Murray's Hum, Ann Walsh's
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