Tag - BOO-ring

Sold Out (Nick Woods Book 1)

April 26, 2022

Sold Out (Nick Woods Book 1)

Somehow, nothing I could say…

The Death of a Bookstore

April 23, 2022

The Death of a Bookstore

So the author has demonstrably seen a book cover before, and yet…

The Shadow Man

April 21, 2022

A cover calculated to make you NOT care about the book.

The Visionary: A Dystopian Sci-Fi (Tion)

April 14, 2022

The Visionary: A Dystopian Sci-Fi (Tion)

With a not-terribly-visionary cover.

Rocket Ship

April 11, 2022

Why, pray tell, would a science fiction reader choose this book instead of literally any other?

A Fifth Magic
The author says: A Fifth Magic is a dark fantasy novel set in a fractured post-civil-war society where magic is both feared and tightly controlled. Detective Michael Hawthorne enlists the help of sceptical academic Laura Blythe to investigate a locked-room murder mystery that mirrors the methods of a war criminal they believed to be long
Sketch of the Day Omnibus Post.
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Fragmented Sky
The author says: In the crumbling dome city of Grid 46, breathable air is a luxury rationed by Praxis Corp, a ruthless megacorporation that views survival as a commodity. Technician Lyra Sato struggles to keep her sick brother alive while uncovering a buried secret—the enigmatic Seed System, a sentient, evolving AI embedded within the dome’s
Sketch of the Day Omnibus Post.
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Movie Seen Recently: Clearing the decks, part 1.
I have been watching movies for the last several months, but I’ve been entirely unmotivated to write about them. So here is the first part of a metric crap-ton of capsule movie assessments to purge the hopper. I Am Vengeance (2018) – Ex-commando reacts to the death of an old comrade-in-arms by coming to his... The post Movie Seen Recently: Clearing the decks, part 1. appeared first on NathanShumate.com.
My Mother
The author says: My Mother is told mostly in the first-person narrative and from the author’s point of view. Set mostly in St. Lucia, the memoir juxtaposes the author’s personal experience of his mom, his mother’s researched life story (and that of her relatives), and St. Lucia’s contemporary history. It dwells on the workings of