Blog, Page 28

It’s a Jack Reacher book. If you read one and liked it, you’ll like this too.

A fun read on the Project Mercury astronauts and test pilots. I found it interesting to learn about: The way pilots are evaluated and how everyone looks for, ...

I loved Backman’s other books, but this one was a bit hit and miss for me, with more miss than hit. In some sense, it’s a very heart warming story, it’s well-writ...

(I did not write up a text review or notes on this book).

The good Interesting new universe. Fun world building. Characters that are unpredictable. Discussions of what’s moral and right, espe...

The good Brilliant premise. Dark, disturbed, neurotic, unpredictable characters. The combination of the premise and the characters ma...

The good A reasonably satisfying conclusion to the Silo trilogy. Doesn’t jump around as much in time as the second book, so it’s easier to foll...

DNF. Each chapter is ~2 pages of platitudes, new age babble, and Buddhist-wannabe spiritual nonsense. All of life is interconnected, we’re all creative, there’s ...

The good A cute, feel-good story. It will make you smile. Lots of twists and turns. Funny, unpredictable, zany characters. The n...

The good An amazing insider’s reveal of the Italian mafia. It shows that the scope & scale of their operations is absolutely mind blowing. Their ...