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Here's the Best Nonfiction Books I read in 2018. Covering many different topics, from true crime to sports. These are all great works. Click through for the entire review. The Last Cowboys by John Branch I recommend The Last Cowboys to anyone interested in The American West, agribusiness, or sports, or to anyone... Continue Reading →
Mirador de la Memoria is a life's reflection and a study into the possibilities of the advancements of neuroscience. Set in the near future, Dr Paulina Kochanowska has been put on house arrest with her personal robot Salvatore because of several experiments that push the limits of current science and have started to injure participants.... Continue Reading →
The making of a villain: What turns a person? Innate evil, the creep of greed, or the slights of the system, the slow burn of an oppressive bureaucracy that no one individual can rally against... but it's even easier when the catalyst is The Joker. Growing up in Brooklyn, Harleen Quinnzel is almost forgotten amongst... Continue Reading →
First off, I am so happy there is a copy of this book in my school's library. Two years in the life of Bitty. College hockey player, dynamic vlogger, topnotch baker, crusher on teammate Jack. Super list of things I loved: A book with an art show, a house party, and hockey checking. Bitty is... Continue Reading →
‘It was very difficult for the Americans to tell the good guys from the bad guys.’ Would the United States allow a man to take the fall for a CIA agent’s murder? Would the government be complicit in the cover-up? These are the overreaching questions directing Michael Pullara's book The Spy Who Was Left Behind.... Continue Reading →
I've read several memoirs about North Korea. Some by visitors, and a couple by escapees. Ishikawa's story is unique not only in the circumstances but in the telling. He was born in Japan to a Korean father and a Japanese mother. During the economic downturn following WW2, N Korea offered a homecoming or repatriation of... Continue Reading →
October: It seemed like a rather quick month. I read some very good books, and started expanding my love for graphic novels. I hit two milestones in the last week on my blog: 200 Followers and 200 Posts Published. These two go hand in hand. I want to thank you for all your support. I... Continue Reading →
We're the aliens here, Dechert thought, and we always will be. Yet, man will always bring vice with him. The greed and conflict. The lies and politics. In 2072, the moon is populated by several international mines boring into the dead soil for helium-3, an element now used to power reactors on Earth. An Earth that has... Continue Reading →
In an alternative Post-Reconstruction era Maryland, Jane McKeene has been taught to kill the undead. Even though slavery is outlawed, young African Americans and Native Americans are sent to finishing schools to adopt the skills to protect the wealthy. The etiquette of the table and the sharpness of the sickle. When Jane's friend's sister goes... Continue Reading →
