A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments By David Foster Wallace ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Book 61/100 Pages 353 If you’ve never read David Foster Wallace and don’t want to tackle the enormity that is Infinite Jest, this is a great introduction. Seven essays on a variety of subjects including tennis, cruise ships, television, [...]
Roadside Picnic by Arkady & Boris Strugatsky ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Book 60/100 Pages: 209 A unique Russian Sci-Fi story approaching alien contact as more of a “roadside picnic” than the occasional they want to suck out our brains and take over the planet. . . The book covers a stalker named Red. Stalkers are people who visit [...]
Book Review: The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ½ Stars Pages: 468 The first of the Broken Earth trilogy by N.K. Jemisin and it is a fantastic start to a series. The plot is an intricate story that gets better the further you read. Jemisin has created a world of high fantasy and sci-fi with [...]
The Last Policeman by Ben H. Winters ⭐️⭐️⭐️ 1/2 Pages: 316 A giant asteroid is plummeting towards the earth, so why solve a murder? That is the existential question at the heart of the book The Last Policeman by Ben H. Winters. The premise is intriguing, offering two unique plots that are intertwined, the investigation into [...]
The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives In Your Home by Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Book #56 Pages: 384 I won an advanced copy of this book earlier this year before its March release date and unfortunately finally got around to reading it. From the creators of the podcast Welcome to Night Vale, The [...]
Book Review: Pop. 1280 by Jim Thompson ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Jim Thompson’s Pop. 1280 is a crime/mystery novel with an introspection of a psychopath’s mind. Thompson’s prose is exceptionally strong, I’ve read a number of his books and believe this to be his strongest. Thinking of when this book was written in 1964 is wild. The book utilizes [...]
Book Review: CivilWarLand in Bad Decline by George Saunders ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ This is the second of Saunders works that I’ve read, and I must say he’s yet to disappoint. CivilWarLand in Bad Decline consists of six short stories and a novella to close out. Though it was his first book, his writing style shines and shows growth [...]
Book Review: Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart ⭐️⭐️⭐️ ½ Shteyngart has crafted a novel of fiction that confronts the malaise of romantic love and the gradual to swift disintegration of a nation. The book is a satirical look at a version of America where social networking is out of control and the majority of [...]
Callahan Herrig 