This was so good, I listened once, and am reading it again on Kindle so I can highlight. I hadn't even realized that "The Unseen Realm" had multiple books in the series. I'm at present doing a study through the notes from "The Unseen Realm," which I assume was the first in the series, to ...
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When Light Breaks, Patti Callahan
This was a sweet, predictable love story with some characterization issues that I found irritating, and plot devices that felt forced.
Kara Larson's mother died when she was young, and it destroyed her family. Her father essentially withdrew from the world and stopped being a father to his three ...
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The Loveliest Chocolate Shop in Paris, Jenny Colgan
Jenny Colgan's books fit into a strange genre, I think... they're obviously meant to be warm and cozy, given the titles, and they are. But the people who gravitate towards those sorts of books probably don't want the language and the sex and the political content (I wouldn't have thought anyway), ...
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Daisy Jones and the Six, Taylor Jenkins Reid
I might have approached this story backwards, by watching the miniseries first, and then reading the book (because I loved the miniseries so much). It's not my usual fare for sure, but the characters were so compelling that I took notes on them (I have a file for favorite characters I encounter in ...
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Leonardo da Vinci, by Walter Isaacson
I've found that I can only listen to biographies, not sit and read them--especially if they're enormous tomes like this one was. But Isaacson did a terrific job "dramatizing" da Vinci's life, such that I followed him like a main character, and felt like I knew him. Da Vinci was of course brilliant, ...
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Home Again, Kristin Hannah
This is the first Kristin Hannah book I've ever read, and I feel like it was likely one of the first she wrote--she's obviously incredibly prolific, but this one didn't feel polished in terms of the plot, or the characters. It was entertaining enough that I finished it, but I also complained to my ...
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The Never Paradox, T Ellery Hodges
I thought the first book in this series was terrific--there were shades of of Spider-Man (more than other superheroes, I guess because Jonathan Tibbs was such a nerd originally), and Superman in the sense that Tibbs fights intergalactic challengers (the Ferox), but whenever Tibbs encounters a ferox ...
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The Order of Time, Carlo Rovelli
This was so good, I highlighted up to the limit of what my kindle would allow, exported the notes, and then both meditated upon and journaled about the notes after I reread them. At the time I was reading Ephesians 1, trying to understand what it means that we are seated with Christ in heavenly ...
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The Never Hero, T Ellery Hodges
Fantastic! This reminded me quite a bit of "Spider-Man," as Jonathan Tibbs is very much a nerd who doesn't expect to, nor does he want to, become a superhero. But there's a significant twist: his challengers come from another dimension, and when he fights to defend the earth and vanquishes them, the ...
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3 Days, 9 Months, 27 Years, John Scalzi
This was utterly brilliant! It's a short story, mostly about the technicalities of a futuristic time-travel business. It reminds me a lot of Brandon Sanderson's "The Frugal Wizard's Handbook for Surviving Medieval England," which was pretty similar in concept, though it interspersed the rules for ...
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