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Solid Paced Thriller With Heart. This is one of those thrillers that starts out rather explosively, pulls back, th

Solid Thriller Ripped From The Headlines. This is one of those "in the moment" thrillers that is eventually

Powerful Tale Of Friendship. Like so many romances, this is one of those tales where had the people involved simply took a step back and discussed the original events so much sooner than they eventual

Thoughtful and Reflective. I'm writing this review over 20 yrs since the original publication of this book in 2005, over 19 yrs since I first picked it up in February 2007, and 18 ish years since I read it in paperback in 2008 as one of the 53 books I read that year - the first time in my life I

The Granddaddy Of Them All. With A Lot Of Surprises For Those Only Familiar With The Movie. More than The Poseidon Adventure by Paul Gallico. More than Nothing Lasts Forever by Roderick Thorpe (the book Die Hard is based on). More than For Love Of The Game by Michael Shaara. More than The Postman by David Brin. More than Meg by Steve Alten (a derivative work in more ways than the obvi

Question Everything. Including This Book. This is a book about transportation engineering written by an engineer and professor... who late in the book reveals himself as rather anti-car (though it becomes more and more clear the further you get into the text, before Marshall effectively outright says it), including some

Mullet Of A Book. Got your attention with that review title, eh? Here's what I mean by it: The first part of this book, where Morewedge is explaining the actual psychological research of attachment to posses

August 2026 opened with devastation, losing my cat of nearly 20 years just hours before the calendar rolled over into August, and ended with a lot of fun - Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Orlando, where my wife does an annual birthday trip for the first couple of weeks of the event and I generally come down from our home in Jacksonville on the weekends while working during the week. This year is really cool being an anniversary year, and we were able to do the Premium Scream Night for the first time, which was really fun - next to no one in the park and "free" food and drink. (For this event, you pay quite a bit more than a normal HHN ticket, so the more accurate term is "included". But we got to eat quite a bit of food and at least now know where we want to continue to spend our money through the rest of the event. :D)

Along the way, I managed to read an additional 18 books, bringing me to 129 on the year. Some were excellent, others were a bit of a letdown. Below, you can see which were which.

I also wrote a couple of commentary pieces as well as copied a post to this site that I still fear will eventually be taken down from its original home, and in the interests of free speech and maintaining an important - and dissident - voice, I chose to ensure that it would survive at least somewhere online so long as I remain capable of hosting a site myself. I even made a few changes to said site, the most prominent of which is a new "What I''m Reading" section along the right side in desktop mode, though I do need to work it a bit better for mobile at some point in the near future.

And now, on to the book reviews...

The Book Reviews

Blog Tour: Everything We Found by Kerry Lonsdale

For this blog tour, we're looking at an excellent and exciting conclusion to a series readers thought for nearly a decade had already concluded. For this blog tour, we're looking at Everything We Found by Kerry Lonsdale.

First, the review I posted to the book sites (BookBub.com BookHype.com /

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Book Review: On The Mark by Florence Hazrat

Misses The Mark. This is a book that should have been completely objective. It sho

Solid Expose That Could Have Been Better With More Balanced Treatment. First off, kudos to the authors for just how well documented this book is - roughly 27%. They build the case of their central premise well, and seemingly damn near every sentence has a footnote attached, at least at times. Yes, there are a lot of anecdotes and (brief, mostly) profiles of various people, but again - *very* well documented anecdotes and profiles.

Really the only even slight negative - enough for me to