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The Thursday Murder Club – Book Review
Spoilers Ahead. You have been warned. My only experience with Richard Osman comes from watching him compete in Taskmaster Season 2, where I thought he was quite funny. So when my wife pulled The Thursday Murder Club out of a Little Free Library in our neighbourhood, I...
The September House – Book Review
Spoilers Ahead. You have been warned. Let me preface this by saying I usually steer well clear of the entire horror genre. As a kid I watched the classics, and read my fair share of Goosebumps books, but in my teen years movies like Saw and Hostel absolutely sent me...
Tokyo Vice – Book Review
Today I finished Tokyo Vice, recommended by Mark Yuasa on the Omnigamers Club Podcast. Tokyo Vice is a memoir by Jake Adelstein. As a young adult, he moved to Japan and managed to land a job at the prestigious Yomiuri Shinbun, the first gaijin (foreigner) to do so....
How to Become The Dark Lord and Die Trying – Book Review
It's been a while since I did a book review. I started a new job in January, and that really took up all of my reading time. But one of my best friends recommended How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying by Django Wexler to me. HtBtDLaDT is basically Groundhog Day...
Walking Disaster: My Life Through Heaven and Hell – Book Review
Spoilers ahead I'm going to start with a disclaimer. I should not be reviewing this book. I am so far removed from the music scene, that I honestly have no business weighing in with my thoughts and opinions. I don't have real passion for music, either creatively or...
Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands – Book Review
Spoilers Ahead Trigger Warning - Sexual Assault In the second page of Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton, she talks about how Cape Breton used to export fish, coal, and steel; but in 2005, its main export is people. Empty chairs around tables, fathers,...
Whalefall – Book Review
Spoilers Ahead Whalefall by Daniel Kraus came into my life via a skeet (a Bluesky post, for those who are unfamiliar with the term) by Elizabeth Hargrave, designer of Wingspan. It basically said "I put Whalefall on my holds list, then by the time it was available, I...
Equal Rites – Book Review
Spoilers Ahead Equal Rites, by Sir Terry Pratchett was his 3rd Discworld novel, originally published in 1986 and tells the story of young Eskarina as she inherits magic from a dying wizard, and grows up with the innate ability to use magic, despite being a woman. The...
The Fifth Season – Book Review
"Let's start with the end of the world, why don't we?" The Fifth Season is a fantasy story told via 3 storylines. Essun, a woman, Syenite, an apprentice orogene (Earth Mage), and Damaya, a young, feral orogene. The narrative for Essun is told from the second-person...
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