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Review: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Parts 1 & 2
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Parts 1 & 2 by John Tiffany My rating: 4 of 5 stars I’d like to start off by addressing the big thing I’ve noticed with this story – while it has 3.5ish stars on Goodreads, a quick scroll through the reviews reveals that’s mostly the average of 1…
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Review: Warbreaker, Part 1 of 3
Warbreaker, Part 1 of 3 by Brandon Sanderson My rating: 4 of 5 stars I am pretty sure I’ve never read Sanderson before. I’ve just not historically been that much of fantasy guy. I’ve read more fantasy in the past few years than I have in the preceeding decades. However, I do know the name…
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Review: The Handmaid’s Tale
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood My rating: 4 of 5 stars I wanted to read this book before talk of the TV show caused the plot to enter the wider zeitgeist and ruin it for me. I’m going to put any big spoilers in the spoiler tag, but this is a book from the…
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Review: You Are Not So Smart: Why You Have Too Many Friends on Facebook, Why Your Memory Is Mostly Fiction, and 46 Other Ways You’re Deluding Yourself
You Are Not So Smart: Why You Have Too Many Friends on Facebook, Why Your Memory Is Mostly Fiction, and 46 Other Ways You’re Deluding Yourself by David McRaney My rating: 3 of 5 stars This is a great book that I think would have blown my mind if I hadn’t already been listening to…
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Review: Massively Multiplayer
Massively Multiplayer by P. Aaron Potter My rating: 5 of 5 stars I don’t really think this book was “AMAZING”, but I gave it an extra star for doing a good job of messing with my expectations. I’ve been reading nearly 30 years now so it’s very hard for an author not to fall into…
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Review: Augie and the Green Knight
Augie and the Green Knight by Zach Weinersmith My rating: 3 of 5 stars Disclaimer: I was a kickstarter backer on this book I Kickstarted this book because I liked Weiner’s work on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal and because the description sounded appealing to me – create a book that would appeal to a young,…
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Review: The Girl with All the Gifts
The Girl with All the Gifts by M.R. Carey My rating: 5 of 5 stars When I first added this book to my To-Read list on Goodreads about 3 years ago, I thought it was another take on the Akira concept – some kids being experimented on by the government and it turned out they…
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Review: The Forever War
The Forever War by Joe Haldeman My rating: 5 of 5 stars This version of The Forever War contains an intro by Scalzi. In it he basically talks about how he somehow avoided reading TFW when it first came out and it’s a good thing because he would have done Old Man’s War differently. He…
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Review: Absolute Power: Tales of Queer Villainy
Absolute Power: Tales of Queer Villainy by Erica Friedman My rating: 5 of 5 stars disclaimer: I kickstarted this anthology Before I get to my usual anthology review in which I collect all my status updates into one place, I wanted to mention a bit about why I kickstarted this book and how I like…
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Review: Tampa: A Novel
Tampa: A Novel by Alissa Nutting My rating: 3 of 5 stars I am too young to have experienced it first-hand, but for a minute there in the 70s pornography went mainstream. Everyone was talking about it. It was “in” to see it. Regular theaters (as opposed to shady sex theaters) were showing movies like…
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Podcasts I’m Listening to in 2017
I’ve both added and dropped some podcasts since last time around. Where I’m listing the same podcast as last year I may use the same description as in the past with slight (or no) variation. Video Games Giant Beastcast – The East Coast Giant Bomb crew. This podcast is more about video game culture and…
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Review: Working for Bigfoot
Both weirder and not as weird as you’d think
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Review: Piranha Frenzy
A look into the world of video games journalism that isn’t quite as fictional as you’d think
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Review: The Magician’s Land
Beautiful ending to a great trilogy
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Review: God’s War
God’s War by Kameron Hurley My rating: 4 of 5 stars ““I’d rather find a call box,” Nyx said.“God does not answer the phone.” There isn’t one person among us heavy users of Goodreads who doesn’t know the truth behind taking the phrase “don’t judge a book by its cover” literally. Now I have found…