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June 3, 2024

Extra Nate: Murder She Wrote: Gin and Daggers

It’s time for some Extra Nate! What am I talking about this time? *Checks notes* hmmmm… well this is gonna be a challenge. Murder She Wrote: Gin & Daggers. A book I almost forgot to review. It’s Murder She Wrote except as a book. From what I can tell Murder She Wrote is about a successful murder mystery author who...

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February 7, 2024

Nate Reads: The Honjin Murders

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 didn’t know what to expect. My first thought was some kind of horror nonsense like he always picks. It’s FEBRUARY *BEN* pick something appropriate for the month! Jerk! Well it turns out he did pick...

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January 28, 2024

Nate Reads: Bookshops & Bonedust by Travis Baldree

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 better in about every way. I heard about Legends and Lattes on Words About Books 2 years ago and the premise was so interesting to me that I picked the book up myself and finished...

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January 11, 2024

Nate Reads: The Deep Sky

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 by Yume Kitasei. This book was voted on by our patrons so thanks for this one guys! The story goes Ben did zero research into this book and pulled a “Nate” where he just picked...

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January 6, 2024

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

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 once, a long time ago, and I didn’t really care for it. I never investigated much beyond that. I was finally convinced to give it a try, and surprisingly, I thought it was pretty good....

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December 28, 2023

The Expanse: James Holden Sucks Worse (Part 2)

The World is Your Oyster Last time I talked about James Holden from Leviathan’s Wake in painful drawn-out detail. I talked about how he looked really good on paper but just didn’t translate when he started indirectly causing the deaths of millions of people and driving another man to a mental breakdown. He was a villain who the world treated...

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December 28, 2023

The Expanse: James Holden’s Character Fails

The Coverage So Far… We’ve talked a lot on this podcast about The Expanse. Five episodes so far with a sixth on the way in January of 2024. We liked the first book so much that we read the second book. We liked the second one far less. I think that’s really interesting and prompts the question: why? Why did...

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December 17, 2023

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

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 I read this, I didn’t even know there was such a thing as “Clean, Closed-Door Romance.” I have a friend who enjoys using his book club picks to specifically annoy me, and so here we...

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November 26, 2023

Ben Reviews – Garth Marenghi’s TerrorTome by Garth Marenghi

Garth Marenghi’s Terror Tome is a book spin-off of a character created by Matthew Holness. As near as I can tell, the character was created for the sitcom Garth Marenghi’s Dark Place, which ran for only 6 episodes but garnered a cult following. The show was co-written and directed by Richard Ayoade. It was a parody of 80s paranormal soap...

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November 7, 2023

Ben Reviews: The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker

It’s hard to talk about this novella without talking about Hellraiser, and that’s really its biggest weakness. Most people picking up this book will know that it is the story that the original Hellraiser film was based on. While the plot is very close to the plot of the movie, its also very obvious that Clive Barker put a lot...

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