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My mom passed away on July 16, 2025. This is the eulogy I gave for her at the funeral on July 18, 2025. You can find her legacy page here.

An interesting read about a dystopian future. On the plus side, the book has a strong central mystery that drives the plot forward, and keeps you reading, and alo...

The story starts a bit slow and predictable, but then throws in a terrific twist, and gives you a whole new perspective on everything. But then it adds another tw...

I was a huge fan of The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August, and this book, which has a similar time loop premise, but came out ~15 years earlier, is perhaps even...

Another solid entry in the Victor the Assassin series. This one could’ve been 5 stars if it made better use of a new character, who is intriguing, but after a lot...

Although these are “Crime Stories by the Author of Jack Reacher,” they don’t feature Reacher. But that’s not really the biggest problem. The biggest problem is th...

I found the final book in this series to be a little disappointing. It falls into the classic trap of fantasy stories where, in each book, the stakes get higher a...

Another solid entry in the Bosch series. This one was 5 stars for me for the first 80% of the book, but the last 20% seemed a bit convoluted, including an abrupt,...

Another solid entry in the Gamache series.

An entertaining murder mystery. The meta references (breaking the 4th wall) are funny at first, but gets a little repetitive later. The solution to the mystery is...