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October 12, 2024

Dune Post Mortem: Zen and the Art of Thinking Machines

As of this month, Words About Books has officially covered all of the Dune books written by Frank Herbert. It’s a strange feeling. Words About Books can often be a sarcasm-filled mess of rants, interruptions, and audio memes. In addition to its being a difficult environment for emotional honesty, it can be difficult to say exactly what you mean, in...

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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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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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September 3, 2023

Ben Reviews: The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin

The Fifth Season is a book that his been on my radar for quite a while. But whenever it came time to choose a new book, I always found something that I thought I would like more. The Fifth Season sounded a little boring and a little depressing. Most “back of the book” synopses you’ll find are very light on...

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August 19, 2023

Ben Reviews: Ogres by Adrian Tchaikovsky

I’ve never read a book by Adrian Tchaikovsky before. I didn’t know anything about him or Ogres before sitting down to read this book. I will admit that the cover did not give me much hope. The version I read had a cover that looked like a giant, poorly-cropped, orc character model from World of Warcraft wearing a top hat...

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August 8, 2023

Ben Reviews: God Emperor of Dune by Frank Herbert

I’m going to do something a little different with this post. I’m going to share my original Goodreads review of God Emperor of Dune from my first reading of the book. This review predates Words About Books. Then I’ll give a short update to that review based on my second reading and I’ll do the rubric evaluation. I’m planning to...

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July 31, 2023

Ben Reviews: A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

To put this reviews in context, I think you need to know that I went into this book with high hopes and low expectations. I was interested in A Court of Thorns and Roses based on everything I read about it, but its rapid rise in popularity on social media was a bit of a turn off for me. It...

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July 12, 2023

Ben Reviews: Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding

As an American man who got married at the age of 29, I’m not the intended audience for this book. So take the rest of this with a grain of salt, I guess. I understand that it began as a series of semi-autobiographical articles that became so popular that a novel was requested. I think I can understand the appeal...

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July 3, 2023

Ben Reviews: Battle Royale by Koushun Takami

Battle Royale is a gorey horror novel about a junior high school class in an alternate reality fascist Japan. These students are taken to an island and forced to kill each other in a game that would go on to inspire PUBG, Fortnite, Call of Duty Warzone, etc, etc. The book’s political message is paper thin. The real draw of...

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