A little preface to my review: sometime last year, I finally figured out that, as I am not an auditory learner, it’s not a great idea for me to listen to non-fiction audiobooks if I want to retain anything I learn. Ebooks are best for non-fiction, because I can highlight them and then export my ...
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Turtles All the Way Down
I absolutely love John Green’s narrative voice: no matter how inherently unappealing his subject matter might be (and often it is), he still hooks me within the first paragraph. I plowed through Paper Towns and The Fault in Our Stars just as I did through this one—yet if the same stories had been ...
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Review of I, Robot
A long time ago I read a short story by Isaac Asimov called “The Last Question” that totally blew my mind. But I’d mostly forgotten about Asimov until my editor mentioned this book to me (it was your suggestion, right, Jim?) since Uncanny Valley is on a very similar topic. Jim even had me write in a ...
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Review of Geekerella
All right, I confess: I’m a fairy tale reboot junkie. There’s something about a story that’s so well-worn I know exactly what’s coming, but I don’t know the form it will take in this iteration that delights me: it’s a surprise, yet with the comfort of familiarity, I suppose. I’m a bit of a geek ...
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Review of The Chemist
I’d read and enjoyed Stephanie Meyer’s Twilight series (to an extent), and The Host. I found both to be entertaining, even while they shared similar flaws. The Chemist was in some ways a total departure from anything she’d done so far, in the sense that there was nothing fantastical or otherworldly ...
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Caraval
I picked up this book because the cover intrigued me—which I find interesting, considering it’s just the made up word in a fancy script, but there you have it. It’s a clever title, too: close enough to the word carnival to evoke that idea, but just different enough to make you look twice. (As an ...
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Review of Renegades
I’ve been a big Marissa Meyer fan ever since The Lunar Chronicles (which I only read recently—I was late to the party on that). Although I didn’t enjoy Heartless quite as much as The Lunar Chronicles, I chalk that up mostly to the fact that it was the origin story of a villain (the Queen of Hearts ...
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Review of Outlander
I never would have thought to listen to this book, had Audible not suggested it to me, as I’m not a big romance novel fan. But I do love an adventure story with an interwoven love story, especially when there’s a fantasy twist, so I thought I’d give it a try.
The quick summary: Clare is happily ...
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Ready Player One
Audiobooks are my practical favorite fiction delivery method, even though I still have a soft spot in my heart for physical books. The fact is, I just don’t have time to read them. But I can listen to audiobooks when I’m driving, at the gym, and when I’m getting ready for work—so I can either ...
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My Journey: Writing “The Liberty Box” Trilogy
It was May of 2014, before I’d even published “Impossible,” the last book of the “Piercing the Veil” trilogy, when I first started brainstorming a dystopian world. I was on vacation with my family in Puerto Rico, and I’d go jogging on the beach out to a rock jutting into the ocean, where I paced ...
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