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Extra Nate: The Mystery of the Yellow Room Review

Posted on August 7, 2024 by Nate

It’s Extra Nate! Prepare for spoilers! Okay I’ll keep this one short. The Mystery of the Yellow Room… not good. Not a fan. Not great.… Continue reading

Posted in More Words, ReviewsTagged agatha christie, French, Gaston, locked room, mystery

Extra Nate: Throne of Glass Book Review

Posted on July 22, 2024 by Nate

It’s Extra Nate! This time I’m talking about Throne of Glass, the thing I read instead of reading A Court of Mist and Fury. Because… Continue reading

Posted in More Words, ReviewsTagged Sarah J Maas, Throne of Glass, Young Adult

Nate Talks: Bridge to Bat City by Ernest Cline (NEW RELEASE)

Posted on May 1, 2024 by Nate

I thought I was out… …but he keeps dragging me back in! Ernest Cline’s best book yet! Also the one that most people will care… Continue reading

Posted in More Words, ReviewsTagged cline, ernest, new book, new book release, Ready Player One, Ready Player Two

Nate Reads: The Honjin Murders

Posted on February 7, 2024 by Nate

A Locked Room Murder Mystery This month we read The Honjin Murders by Seishi Yokomizo. This one was one of Ben’s picks and I honestly… Continue reading

Posted in More Words, ReviewsTagged Japanese, kosuke kindaichi, locked-room, Murder Mystery, Review

Nate Reads: Bookshops & Bonedust by Travis Baldree

Posted on January 28, 2024 by Nate

AN OKAY PREQUEL Getting this out of the way real quick for the TL;DR crowd. Not a bad book, but its predecessor is so much… Continue reading

Posted in ReviewsTagged Review, Travis Baldree, Words About Books

Nate Reads: The Deep Sky

Posted on January 11, 2024 by Nate

The Deep Sky? More like the Deep… DIE! I’m 2 for 2 for blogs this year so far. I’m moving along with The Deep Sky… Continue reading

Posted in ReviewsTagged Deep Sky, mystery, Review, Sci-fi, Words About Books, yume kitasei

The Hunger Games: Better Than Expected

Posted on January 8, 2024 by Nate

NATE THE GREAT After reading Battle Royale last year, I decided that we should compare it to the thing that most readily appears to imitate… Continue reading

Posted in ReviewsTagged Book review, bookstagram, katniss, suzanne collins, The Hunger Games

Ben Reviews – The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games #1) by Suzanne Collins

Posted on January 6, 2024 by Ben Gilles

I’m a late comer to The Hunger Games. When it came out I was a little older than the target demographic. I saw the movie… Continue reading

Posted in More Words, ReviewsTagged Review

Ben Reviews – Later On We’ll Conspire by Kortney Keisel

Posted on December 17, 2023 by Ben Gilles

I almost feel bad reviewing this. I was never meant to read Later On We’ll Conspire. This was not written with me in mind. Before… Continue reading

Posted in More Words, ReviewsTagged Review, Words About Books

Ben Reviews – The Stupidest Angel by Christopher Moore

Posted on December 17, 2023 by Ben Gilles

When I was a teenager I read a lot of Christopher Moore books. I liked them quite a bit, but upon revisiting A Dirty Job… Continue reading

Posted in More Words, Reviews

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Ben's books

The President Is Missing
it was ok
The President Is Missing
by Bill Clinton
Where to start with this book? Should I talk about how I don't believe that either James Patterson or Bill Clinton actually did much of the writing? Should I talk about how Bill Clinton is spending his retirement creating Bill Clinton fa...
A Court of Mist and Fury
liked it
A Court of Mist and Fury
by Sarah J. Maas
I thought this was pretty ok. I'm team Night Court. I really enjoy that Feyre is getting to have a hipster phase with the cool kids in a fancy Bohemian city. I dont even mind that she has all the super powers, I thought that would bug me...
The Infernal City
it was ok
The Infernal City
by Greg Keyes
I don't often do this, but I'm going to engage in a controversial DNF review. I'm fairly confident that being forced to read every word of the rest of it would only lower my score. I made it about half way through Part 1 of the audio boo...
Beowulf: A New Translation for Oral Delivery (Hackett Classics) by Dick Ringler (1-Oct-2007) Paperback
it was amazing
Beowulf: A New Translation for Oral Delivery (Hackett Classics) by Dick Ringler (1-Oct-2007) Paperback
by Unknown Author
I've read a few translations of Beowulf, and the only thing that's really missing from this one is the original language text. Ringler does a pretty good job of the translation itself. He includes very solid explanation and context as well.
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
did not like it
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
by Rebecca Wells
I'm neither a mother nor a daughter so take this with a grain of salt, I guess. Siddalee is a famous stage director who stages a hit play. She's interviewed for a New York Times article. When asked about her childhood she accidentally pr...

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