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The Red Devil Rides Again

Red Sonja Volume 3: The Forgiving of Monsters by Gail Simone

May 14, 2022 by Halbs Leave a Comment

This third volume of Gail Simone’s stories about the Hyrkanian warrior wraps up the author’s fantastic run on Red Sonja series. Simone brings adventure, heart, and humor to a character that could easily be one dimensional in the wrong hands. She is kind of like Gronk in a chainmail bikini. (Thankfully, a hardcover collection of Simone’s run recently came out. I think all three volumes are of equal quality, so if you read the first one and enjoy it, just get the hardcover.) Volume three […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books Tagged With: Dynamite Comics, Gail Simone

Halbs's CBR14 Review No:16 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books · Tags: Dynamite Comics, Gail Simone ·
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Just keep swimming

Make Your Bed: Little Things That Can Change Your Life...And Maybe the World by William McRaven

May 14, 2022 by Halbs Leave a Comment

I went to the University of Texas, so Admiral Bill McRaven’s 2014 commencement speech “If you want to change the world, make your bed,” has a special place in my burnt orange heart. But the speech has a ton of important and practical life advice applicable to anyone. You can grab an idea or short story to focus on in any given day and it will help you. This short book is based on his speech – a little more fleshed out and with some […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction Tagged With: advice, Navy Seals, Self-help, William McRaven

Halbs's CBR14 Review No:15 · Genres: Audiobooks, Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction · Tags: advice, Navy Seals, Self-help, William McRaven ·
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Raise a Glass

Girly Drinks: A World History of Women and Alcohol by Mallory O'Meara

May 8, 2022 by Halbs 1 Comment

“All drinks are girly drinks.” This sentence closes Mallory O’Meara’s book and also serves a sort of double-pronged thesis. All drinks are girly drinks in the sense that women can drink what they want. Historically, all drinks are “girly” drinks in the sense that women around the globe were integral to the development of brewing, distilling, mixing, and serving alcoholic drinks. (O’Meara is great at double meanings in subtitles. Her Lady from the Black Lagoon is subtitled “Hollywood monsters” in the horror sense, and also […]

Filed Under: History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: Alcohol, feminism, Mallory O'Meara, prohibition

Halbs's CBR14 Review No:14 · Genres: History, Non-Fiction · Tags: Alcohol, feminism, Mallory O'Meara, prohibition ·
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A few good motivational ideas

It Takes What It Takes: How to Think Neutrally and Gain Control of Your Life by Trevor Moawad, Andy Staples

May 6, 2022 by Halbs 1 Comment

I found out about Trevor Moawad through NFL quarterback Russell Wilson. Moawad was kind of a mental coach for Wilson, as he also was for many other professional and collegiate athletes and programs. Moawad’s dad was a big leader in the motivational speaking and proto-self-help world, with a focus on self-esteem. Unfortunately, Trevor Moawad recently died from a terminal illness. I thought it would be nice to read his book as a kind of show of respect. It Takes What it Takes comes from the […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Non-Fiction Tagged With: neutral thinking, Psychology, sports psychology, Trevor Moawad, Andy Staples

Halbs's CBR14 Review No:13 · Genres: Audiobooks, Non-Fiction · Tags: neutral thinking, Psychology, sports psychology, Trevor Moawad, Andy Staples ·
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“We’re in a kind of compulsory dodgeball game as we free-fall from Wherever to Ain’t Got a Clue.”

The Colorado Kid by Stephen King

April 16, 2022 by Halbs Leave a Comment

The Colorado Kid is one of Stephen King’s three entries in the Hard Case Crime series. These Hard Case Crime books are throwbacks to 1950-ish pulpy novels, which at the time they initially came out cost the same as a movie ticket. They even come with the slightly unseemly painted covers of yore. (The HCC books, like the books they’re based on, are roughly the same cost as a movie ticket, which kind of stinks because movies are expensive!!) Colorado Kid sounds like it would […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: hard case crime, Stephen King

Halbs's CBR14 Review No:12 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery · Tags: hard case crime, Stephen King ·
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Star Trek: Game of Thrones Edition

Vanguard #2: Summon the Thunder by Dayton Ward, Kevin Dilmore

April 1, 2022 by Halbs Leave a Comment

Earlier this year I reviewed book one in the Star Trek Vanguard series. Long story short – it’s a series set in the time of the original Star Trek tv show. It’s about the Federation and the rest of the known universe encountering technology that is simultaneously very old and very advanced. While I liked many of the ideas in the book, the writing felt a little hammy and dated. Summon the Thunder is book two in the series. While some plot points carry over […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Science Fiction Tagged With: Dayton Ward, Kevin Dilmore, Star Trek, Vanguard

Halbs's CBR14 Review No:11 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction · Tags: Dayton Ward, Kevin Dilmore, Star Trek, Vanguard ·
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  • narfna on And now, jump back hundreds and hundreds of years…#BlameMalin on this one for me, too, because she literally sent me a copy.
  • narfna on “And that very same evening—that very same evening—Lord Edgware dies. Good title that, by the way. Lord Edgware Dies. Look well on a book stall.”That's gotta be the new headcanon.
  • drmllz on “And that very same evening—that very same evening—Lord Edgware dies. Good title that, by the way. Lord Edgware Dies. Look well on a book stall.”I like to think the wife packs Hastings off to England to hang out with Poirot and enjoys having a whole ranch to herself...
  • Emmalita on And now, jump back hundreds and hundreds of years…Oh yay! Another #BlameMalin victim. That was an expensive miscommunication. I'm glad your grandmother is ok.
  • Emmalita on I liked this more as an exercise in boundary pushing for meI have to admit, I really liked this one. But Anita Kelly's whole vibe just works for me. I do have a couple of non...
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