Hello, my good dudes! I hope today finds you well, and I suspect today finds you happy indeed that it is (when this goes up) the weekend. Bless. Today’s review is (gasp!) a nonfiction read! I know, I know: what… Read More ›
Reading Challenge
The Secret World: A History of Intelligence, Christopher Andrew
Ok so, I was scrolling through Netgalley with keyword searches to see if anything was available that would be both fun for me to read, and actually relevant to what I do. Despite cyber being all the rage right now,… Read More ›
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
I originally picked up this book because it was part of the Penguin Classics miniseries called Legends from the Ancient North, curated because each of the five volumes contributed to J.R.R. Tolkien’s creation of Middle Earth. You may or may… Read More ›
The Atlantis Code, Charles Brokaw
Well, well, well. Here we are. Finally. At the beginning of a series that will, in all honesty, encompass many different types of posts (reviews, essays, rants…) and spread across a number of years. Today we are talking about the… Read More ›
Lifel1k3, Jay Kristoff
Here’s the first thing you need to understand: Lifel1k3 is the first of Jay Kristoff’s books that I have read. I still don’t know if that was a good idea, or a terrible idea. If you’re read Lifel1k3 or intend… Read More ›
Manga Classics: The Stories of Edgar Allan Poe
Hello hello, lovely readers! So: manga. I wasn’t entirely sure what to expect when I flipped to the first page (at the back!) of this book. While I’ve read comics and graphic novels, this was the first manga I have… Read More ›
Doctor Who: Rose, Russell T. Davies
Hello my loves! I can honestly say that I never (ever!) thought I would find myself reviewing anything that had anything to do with Doctor Who. Seriously. A friend of my mother’s tried to get me into the original series… Read More ›
Rivers of London, Ben Aaronovitch
Let me start by saying that Rivers of London has been sitting on my shelf for….well, for quite some time. I’ve been meaning to read it for about a year, acquired a copy several months ago and have been subsisting… Read More ›
The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben
This was one of these books that I had been meaning to read for a really, really long time and just never seemed to get around to because there was always another book at hand. Then, of course, when I… Read More ›
Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief, Rick Riordan
Hello my loves, my nerds, my book-addicted fellows! I think we can all agree that this book has been a long, long time coming. I mean, this has literally been around for over a decade. This was released when I… Read More ›
Printed Pages and Coffee 