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Category Archives: Reviews
Review: Three Weeks to Say Goodbye
Just finished Three Weeks to Say Goodbye by C.J. Box. The book is narrated by a man that recently adopted a baby girl with his wife. Life is great until the adoption agency calls to tell him that the birth father wants the baby back. To make things worse, the birth father’s father is a [...]
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Review: Variable Star
Just finished Variable Star by Robert A. Heinlein and Spider Robinson. It is a sci-fi book that was outlined by Robert A. Heinlein before he died, and then fleshed out by Spider Robinson many years later. SPOILER WARNING! The premise is pretty good. A poor college student finds out that his supposedly equally-poor college student [...]
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Review: The Brief History of the Dead
I recently finished reading The Brief History of the Dead by Kevin Brockmeier. The book’s premise is interesting: After death, everyone goes to “the City”, a sort of waiting room between earth-life and whatever comes after death. The catch: Once everyone that remembers you dies, you leave the City and go to… I don’t know. [...]
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Review: Devil May Care
Just finished Devil May Care by Sebastian Faulks. Being a James Bond book, I wasn’t expecting a very deep plot and I was not disappointed. The entire premise of the book is ridiculous, and the “surprise” twist at the end was a bit contrived and unrealistic (even for a James Bond novel). The action scenes [...]
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Review: Negotiating Your Salary