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September was a blur, really. I opened the month at Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Orlando, ran (walked, to be more precise) my first 5K in over a decade, and crossed the 80 lb weight loss mark from the beginning of the year... while reading another 20 books, including my 750th review on my current NetGalley profile, and my 1,250th NetGalley review across both of my profiles there. Just a routine "rinse and repeat" kind of month, at least once we got back from HHN.

And now, on to the book reviews...

The Book Reviews

Book Review: Jaws by Peter Benchley

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

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Book Review: Killed By A Traffic Engineer by Wes Marshall

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

Valuable Discourse. Kaemingk and Hamid never set out to declare any absolute that any religion - Christianity, Islam, State/ Reason/ Logic/ Science, Buddhism, Hinduism, or any other - can definitively make democracy better. Instead, the main thrust of the argument here is that by more openly discussing all religions and

This Book Could Have Been A Credit Card Sized Pamphlet. The title of this review + the title of this book is really all you need to know here. Everything else in this review will be me telling you a bit about why I

Interesting Academic Dissection Seemingly More Geared Towards Academics And Clerics Than General Audiences. This is one of those academic books where the author is quite clearly writing more towards fellow academics and/ or clerics with only a side glance toward the more educ

Dated Yet Reasonable-Ish Primer. This is one of those books about a hyper technical subject that was written by a not-technical-at-all author... and it shows. One where the fact that *Bill Gates* o

For this blog tour, we're looking at a solid conclusion to an epic dual timeline WWII series. For this blog tour, we're looking at The Last Train From Paris by Suzanne Kelman.

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

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

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

Traveling The World To Look Into Dirt. This is one of those books that will be *very* appealing to some... and others (most?) will walk right on by, just as they do literally every day with the s

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