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Book Review: Artificial Condition, by Martha Wells (Murderbot Diaries, 2)

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Blurb A USA Today bestseller The “I love Murderbot!” ―Ann Leckie Artificial Condition is the follow-up to Martha Wells’s Hugo, Nebula, Alex, and Locus Award-winning, New York Times bestselling All Systems Red It has a dark past―one in which a number of humans were killed. A past that caused it to christen itself “Murderbot”. But it has only vague memories of the massacre that spawned that title, and it wants to know more. Teaming up with a Research Transport vessel named ART (you don’t want to know what the “A” stands for), Murderbot heads to the mining facility where it went rogue. What it discovers will … Continue reading Book Review: Artificial Condition, by Martha Wells (Murderbot Diaries, 2)

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Book Review: Freaky Deaky, by Elmore Leonard

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Blurb Over-the-hill former counter-culture SDS revolutionaries decide to turn bomb-making—and detonating—from a political statement to a profitable enterprise in the master Elmore Leonard’s electrifying and explosively funny thriller Freaky Deaky. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch calls Leonard, “the world’s greatest cops ‘n’ robbers novelist.” The Seattle Times says, “Leonard is more than just one of the all-time greats of crime fiction. He’s fast becoming an authentic American icon.” No matter where you wish to place the man who created the character of U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens, lately of TV’s hit series Justified, in the pantheon of mystery and noir detective fiction demigods—John D. MacDonald, Dashiell Hammett, James … Continue reading Book Review: Freaky Deaky, by Elmore Leonard

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Book Review: The Iliad, Graphic Novel

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Blurb In a companion volume to his award-winning adaptation of The Odyssey, the incomparable graphic novelist Gareth Hinds masterfully adapts Homer’s classic wartime epic. More than three thousand years ago, two armies faced each other in an epic battle that rewrote history and came to be known as the Trojan War. The Iliad, Homer’s legendary account of this nine-year ordeal, is considered the greatest war story of all time and one of the most important works of Western literature. In this stunning graphic novel adaptation — a thoroughly researched and artfully rendered masterwork — renowned illustrator Gareth Hinds captures all the grim glory of … Continue reading Book Review: The Iliad, Graphic Novel

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Book Review: Bear Town, by Fredrik Backman

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Blurb Now an HBO Original Series “You’ll love this engrossing novel.” —People Named a Best Book of the Year by LibraryReads, BookBrowse, and Goodreads From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Anxious People, a dazzling and profound novel about a small town with a big dream—and the price required to make it come true. By the lake in Beartown is an old ice rink, and in that ice rink Kevin, Amat, Benji, and the rest of the town’s junior ice hockey team are about to compete in the national semi-finals—and they actually have a shot at winning. All the hopes and dreams of this place … Continue reading Book Review: Bear Town, by Fredrik Backman

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Book Review: The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini

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Blurb The #1 New York Times bestselling novel beloved by millions of readers the world over. New York Times Readers Pick: 100 Best Books of the 21st Century “A vivid and engaging story that reminds us how long his people [of Afghanistan] have been struggling to triumph over the forces of violence—forces that continue to threaten them even today.”—The New York Times Book Review The unforgettable, heartbreaking story of the unlikely friendship between a wealthy boy and the son of his father’s servant, caught in the tragic sweep of history, The Kite Runner transports readers to Afghanistan at a tense and crucial moment of change and … Continue reading Book Review: The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini

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My 2024 Recap

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I have a few hobbies. Here is a quick recap of some of them. Reading Log: 32 books read 112 Albums Rated Watched a bunch of stuff 201 Comics Read A bunch of time in the gym 2,075 bets made. ROI +7.3 percent. 403.4 Miles in Nike +. This was down significantly. See the below line. Two knee surgeries + vasectomy. 225 Stories written for the Wayne County Press 79,415 Minutes on Spotify 1 Powerlifting meet: 1,350 total. Deadlift PR of 585. 700+ government bids submitted. Weight on 1/1/25: 253.3 pounds. 110 Different Beers Drank Trips: Bloomington, IN golf trip; … Continue reading My 2024 Recap

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Book Nook: Where All Light Tends To Go

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by David Joy Blurb THE INSPIRATION FOR THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE DEVIL’S PEAK—starring Billy Bob Thornton, Robin Wright, Hopper Penn, and Jackie Earle Haley! In the country-noir tradition of Winter’s Bone meets Breaking Bad, a savage and beautiful story of a young man seeking redemption—a finalist for the Edgar Award for Best First Novel. The area surrounding Cashiers, North Carolina, is home to people of all kinds, but the world that Jacob McNeely lives in is crueler than most. His father runs a methodically organized meth ring, with local authorities on the dime to turn a blind eye to his dealings. Having dropped out of … Continue reading Book Nook: Where All Light Tends To Go

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Book Nook: Vanderbilt, the Rise and Fall Of An American Dynasty, by Anderson Cooper

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Blurb New York Times bestselling author and journalist Anderson Cooper teams with New York Times bestselling historian and novelist Katherine Howe to chronicle the rise and fall of a legendary American dynasty—his mother’s family, the Vanderbilts. One of the Washington Post‘s Notable Works of Nonfiction of 2021 When eleven-year-old Cornelius Vanderbilt began to work on his father’s small boat ferrying supplies in New York Harbor at the beginning of the nineteenth century, no one could have imagined that one day he would, through ruthlessness, cunning, and a pathological desire for money, build two empires—one in shipping and another in railroads—that would make him the … Continue reading Book Nook: Vanderbilt, the Rise and Fall Of An American Dynasty, by Anderson Cooper