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When you have no choice but to go for it and throw the ball down the field... Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir Pub date: 2021 How I read it: Audiobook Narrator: Ray Porter. He nailed it. From the nerdy science guy hero to the no-nonsense project manager, the characters and the story come brilliantly … Continue reading Project Hail Mary
The Nazi Conspiracy: The secret plot to kill Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill by Brad Meltzer and Josh Mensch Pub date: 2023 How I read it: Audiobook Narrator: Scott Brick. He employed a dramatic and theatrical tone throughout which went well with the way the authors laid out the subject matter. He's apparently an audiobook narrator … Continue reading The Nazi Conspiracy
Survival stories that rattle your soul... what would you do? Admit it, at some point in your life you thought it would be cool to be stranded on a desert island. To be left alone to fend for yourself, build a fire, make a shelter, and go fishing for your dinner. The romance of it … Continue reading Hatchet and The Indifferent Stars Above
Out, Proud, and Prejudiced by Megan Reddaway Pub date: 2018 How I read it: Physical book Tags: Romance, British, gay, college life, spicy In a nutshell: Bennet is a young, poor, gorgeous, and ambitious college student. Darius is a haughty, wealthy, gorgeous, and smart attorney. They meet in the small town where Bennet and his … Continue reading Out, Proud, and Prejudiced
Flesh by David Szalay Pub date: 2025 How I read it: Audiobook Narrator: Daniel Weyman Tags: Dark, subtle, narcotic In a nutshell: Flesh tells the story of a man's life, lived as it came to him. It's shallow at first then grows roots. We meet teenage István as a youth, living with his mother in … Continue reading Flesh
Read, review, repeat Even though I only review books that I enjoy, a few of them always stand out from the others. Here are my top picks for 2025 including the best book I didn't review, three series of note, and a reading conundrum. In a slew of excellent and entertaining books, The Human Scale … Continue reading 2025 year-end wrap party
Trigger warning: existential dread Reflections on the end of a civilization is the subtitle of this bleak book published by Roy Scranton in 2015. It's not without a tiny bit of hope, but he is frank in his assertion that "this civilization is already dead." We - humanity - are on the way out and … Continue reading Learning to Die in the Anthropocene
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