Why are introverts the way we are? Are we broken extroverts? Nope. We are not. And, there are a crapton of us, so deal with it. So I picked up this book called Quiet by Susan Cain I found it absolutely fascinating. Some of the theories of why introverts and extroverts are the way they… Continue reading Book Review: Quiet
Allen Carr's Easy Way To Stop Smoking is a book recommended to me for, well, quitting smoking. I respond well to rational arguments that aim to change my irrational behaviour like smoking. And smoking is irrational because we all know, and it is right there on the pack, exactly the risks and flaws of smoking. I… Continue reading Book review: Easy Way To Stop Smoking
I have a review on The Surge. A review. One review. But, it is by my favorite reviewer. I'll take any review. I'll take just a star review. But this reviewer is awesome because he does these in-depth reviews. And that is rare. This is the description of The Surge: Vie is a Chaos… Continue reading The Surge: A review
City of the Lost is the first in this new series by Kelley Armstrong. But I didn't know that at the time and you don't really need to read these in order. This isn't a series that hinges on that. Each is stand-alone. But for the relationships going on in the town... I'd like to have… Continue reading Book Review: A Darkness Absolute
Someone read through my entire series and review every book on Amazon! I really do appreciate a written review, but 5 reviews and all 5 stars! I mean Wow! I feel honored to have received such reviews on my books. For your viewing pleasure, I will post the one on the last book in the series (for now… Continue reading Book review: I of Me
I am reading a book called Smarter by Dan Hurley. Not particularly because I think my straight up IQ needs a boost. That is healthy at 140. Rather because I think my cognitive functions need a boost due to having depression and chronic migraines. Pain crowds the brain and makes it difficult to fit much… Continue reading Book review: Smarter
The Drafter (The Peri Reed Chronicles) is the first in a series by Kim Harrison. The Blurb: Peri Reed has been lied to by a person she loved and it leads to her wanting to find the truth if she ever can. She is a drafter; having the ability to alter and change history she… Continue reading Book Review: Drafter
Marked (Soulseer Chronicles) is a new author I picked up in my last bout of book shopping by Sue Tingey. The Blurb: We have Lucky who can see ghosts living a quiet life with her ghost familiar Kayla. However it turns out Kayla is a demon and was sent herself to protect Lucky when she was born, or… Continue reading Book Review: Marked
The shifty magic series by Judy Teel... I read them all in a couple of days so it is a review of Shifty Magic (Shifty Magic Series Book 1),Undercover Magic (Shifty Magic Series Book 2),Savage Magic (Shifty Magic Series Book 3) The Blurb: Paranormal terrorists attacked the world outing paranormals, who helped fight off the… Continue reading Review: The shifty magic series
Apocalypse Now Now by Charlie Human was an interesting read. His main character Baxter has a group of friends, collectively called the Spider, that distribute porn around the school. His gang and the other gangs seem to be handling business and he is dating a girl dame Esme. Then his girlfriend goes missing. Around the… Continue reading Review: Apocalypse Now Now
Tom Holt is the author of Outsorcerer's Apprentice. A happy workforce, it is said, is a productive workforce. Mmmm. Try telling that to an army of belligerent goblins. Or the Big Bad Wolf. Or a professional dragonslayer. Who is looking after their well-being? Who gives a damn about their intolerable working conditions, lack of adequate… Continue reading Review: The Outsorcerer’s Apprentice
No More Black Magic by A.L. Kessler My rating: 2 of 5 stars The book No More Magic is about a gifted witch and someone out to get her. She works with a vampire, who also raised her. She also works for the state on cases. She gets on a case that seems to have… Continue reading Review: No More Black Magic
The Magicians: A Novel is by Lev Grossman and is the first book in a trilogy. The blurb: Have you ever wondered what it would be like to have stayed in Narnia? Or why the children in those books never could? Why did they always get booted out of such a world and have to… Continue reading The Magicians: A book review
Blink is by Malcolm Gladwell The blurb:Â Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell is a non-fiction book about the unconscious mind. In particular, though the part of the unconscious mind we automatically use to make split-second decisions, what he calls 'thin-slicing'. We like to believe our rational mind weighs facts and… Continue reading Book Review: Blink
Last to Rise (A Rojan Dizon Novel) is the final book in this series by Francis Knight. See my review for Fade to Black and the second in the series Before the Fall. The blurb: The city rises upwards not across. Those at the bottom, as you might imagine are rather downtrodden and rarely see… Continue reading Last to Rise: Book review
Before the Fall (A Rojan Dizon Novel) is the second in the series written by Francis Knight. So far there are three. See my review for Fade to Black The blurb: The city rises upwards not across. Those at the bottom, as you might imagine are rather downtrodden and rarely see light, or much… Continue reading Before the Fall: Book Review
Fade to Black (A Rojan Dizon Novel) is the first in the series written by Francis Knight. So far there are three. I am about halfway into the second one at this point. The blurb: The city rises upwards not across. Those at the bottom, as you might imagine are rather downtrodden and rarely see… Continue reading Fade to Black: Book Review
I just finished The God Argument: The Case Against Religion and for Humanism by A.C. Grayling and it was quite enjoyable to me. Keep in mind I am a philosophical agnostic who enjoys this sort of discussion but leans strongly towards atheism. It is just that sort of book I can enjoy. Thinking about religion and… Continue reading Book Review: The God Argument
Kate Elliott is a great writer to begin with. This new series starting with Cold Magic (The Spiritwalker Trilogy) was better than I'd thought it would be. Now I thought it would be good because of the author, but it surpassed expectations. First of all, it is written in first person but has the feel… Continue reading Book Review: Kate Elliott’s Cold Magic
Chosen (Alex Verus) If you rate a novel based on how you read it so intently you read it all night and finished in the morning then it is a great book. Although I was in a book deprivation state when I got it, so I might have consumed it simply because I was in… Continue reading Book Review: Chosen An Alex Verus Novel By Benedict Jacka
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