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The Magicians by Lev Grossman
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

An adult version of a “doorway” fantasy. The kind we don’t see as much anymore in which people from our world step through a hidden portal into a magical realm. This story has a twist…

Dreamquests: The Art of Don Maitz by Don Maitz

 My rating: 5 of 5 stars
 


 Some of these “Art of” collections have a lot of exposition and background stories of the images. Which is fine but Maitz book dispenses with a lot of that. This book is flush…

Velvet #3 by Ed Brubaker
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Infectious and wonderful. This is pure Brubaker, Spies , Crime and suspense that invokes a lot of the classic Cold War/LeCarre,/Fleming thinking man’s (or woman’s) thriller.

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The Summer Tree by Guy Gavriel Kay
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Derivitive? Yes! Full of tropes you’ve seen before? Yes!
I know these things are normally reasons to avoid this book and the rest of the series but please read on.
The tldr; is…

Woman of the Woods by Milton J. Davis
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Do you like Sword and Sandals themed epics that take place in lush locals and and exotic places? The kind of worlds that and Robert E. Howard had only begun to explore…

Average Is Over: Powering America Beyond the Age of the Great Stagnation by Tyler Cowen
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Steelheart by Brandon Sanderson
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

A decent yarn but I guess my biggest issue with superhero fiction is that , for me, the story has to be up to par with some of the greatest comic stories that have been told over the…

The Godfather by Mario Puzo
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

You can’t really call yourself a true film fanatic of The Godfather film until you have read this, the source material to the movies. This book takes the form of an ongoing narrative of…

Caliban’s War by James S.A. Corey
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I enjoyed this installment of The Expanse, the characters seems more real and distinct. The plot moved along at decent clip and the subplots included a log of good sense of humor…

Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Einstein has always been a personal hero of mine so it’s odd that I’ve never thought to read a biography of him.
When I saw that there…