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Okay, I'll be honest: the title as an attempt at saying something particularly profound, but at the same it means exactly what it says. Do you ever just sit? Just sit perfectly still, staring into nothingness, letting your thoughts wander? Watching as the world goes by without you as you deliberately sit there and do... Continue Reading →
What an exquisitely strange type of horror. Shaw has created something delightfully strange and haunting with this novella - as it starts off with two halves of a corpse waking up together in a morgue. They don't know why or how, or what has happened to them - all they know is that they've only... Continue Reading →
Not only the most successful kickstarter ever - also the best Sanderson book I've ever read. Okay - first things first, I've only read three and that's including this one. I read Skyward first and I recently finished the first installment in the Mistborn series. Both great fantasy/science fiction books that I'd recommend to any... Continue Reading →
I had to look it up and apparently it's been nine years ago that a colleague introduced me to my favorite podcast ever: No Such Thing As A Fish. If you're not familiar It's a podcast made by the people behind the British quiz show QI and it's basically just a show about fact. Each... Continue Reading →
It's almost as perfect as everyone says it is. Brandon Sanderson is kind of a mythical author to me, one of those that if you read just a little bit of fantasy here and there and discuss a book now and then, his name will eventually pop up. I don't remember when I first heard... Continue Reading →
Welcome to 2023, friends! It's time for writing, reading, and doing reviews, so here's my first of the year. We went traveling during the holidays and I knew I needed something on my phone to read on the flight. This practically jumped at me as soon as I logged on to browse for books and... Continue Reading →
The second book in The Crusader Chronicles book and what a sequel it is! When I read Saye's first book in the series, Storm of War, I remember being surprised by how captivating the story way. Being an archaeologist by profession, I often find that I don't enjoy historical fiction and mysteries as much as... Continue Reading →
Dancing At Midnight is the heartbreaking tale of a Carolyn, a young woman who comes home to deal with the death of her mother, June Parker - and the estate she has left behind - only to discover the painful, untold truth about her June's early life. This is very different from what I usually... Continue Reading →
The horrifying truth about a most terrifying historical event - the loss of the 129 men of the Franklin Expedition who perished in the Canadian Arctic in 1848. I don't read enough non-fiction, unfortunately. I always end up loving it when I do, and I try to always intersperse my reading with a few books... Continue Reading →
Pete Banning wakes up one day, eats his breakfast, get his affairs in order, and decides to shoot his pastor. He then goes straight to the sheriff. What follows is an elaborate court case, a family drama, and a story of the terrible conditions of war. A truly fascinating tale. I hadn't read any John... Continue Reading →
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