Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake This book taught me how much I don’t know about mushrooms. It’s basically like the fungal equivalent of “The Secret Life of Trees” when you pick up a book wondering how much there is to learn about such …
Dec 20
Book Review: The Promise Girls
The Promise Girls by Marie Bostwick I’ve been reading so many psychological thriller books lately that when Audible recommended this to me, it took a while to realize that no one was going to disappear in a violent and mysterious manner and that there probably weren’t massive hidden mental health issues causing people to stab …
Nov 16
Book Review: When You Find Me
When You Find Me by P.J. Vernon This is an ok psychological thriller/police procedural audiobook that I probably would have enjoyed a lot more if I hadn’t read so much in the genre. Grey King, a wealthy heiress from South Carolina, comes home to her familial estate to celebrate Christmas with her mother and her …
Nov 09
Book Review: Murder by Other Means
Murder by Other Means by John Scalzi This short audiobook is the sequel to The Dispatcher, a murder mystery set in a world in which anyone who is murdered returns to life at home unharmed. The protagonist, Tony, has a job in which he murders people who are about to die by other means so …
Nov 04
Book Review: A Darker Shade of Magic
A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab This refreshingly original novel helped restore my faith in high fantasy after so many D&D McFantasyland adventures. It’s set in London and London and London, three different Londons in parallel universes with differing amounts of magic in each, the most familiar of which being “Grey London” which …