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2015 was my first year participating, and I lost two months of reading due to the birth of my first child. I still read 30 books, though, which was a lot for me. Last year, I reviewed 110, which is about three times the amount I'd ever read in a year. I also started keeping the CBR database, and making monthly updates to both Facebook and the website. I did that entirely of my own volition, and to the bemusement of everyone around me.

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I saw these books described as Zack Morris is space, and now I can’t forget it.

Steel World, Dust World, Tech World, Machine World, Death World, Home World, Rogue World, Blood World, Dark World by BV Larson

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(It’s late, I’m just back from vacation, and this review is nearly 4,500 words. Just to warn you: I’m not proof-reading this.) Earth is small and insignificant. Humanity doesn’t matter. This series is set about a hundred and fifty years in the future. Earth has been forcibly pulled into a vast and cold Galactic Empire, where all the power and decision making exists at the center of the galaxy. Earth is a backwater on the frontier, marking a sharp divergence from typical science fiction, where humanity is the center of the universe. Here, we’re just mercenaries for a larger and […]

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8/5/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:24 |

2nd quarter stats update!

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Now that we’re (more than) halfway through the year, it’s time for the second quarter database update. I’m not going to lie, though, I kind of forgot to do this. That’s the bad thing about not doing this every month, I guess. You kind of get out of the habit of it. And I kind of miss doing the more in-depth posts, but I just don’t have the time for it. Sorry about that, everyone. On with the stats! Monthly review totals: January – 416 (3.68 average) February – 316 (3.72 average) March – 355 (3.55 average) April – 380 […]

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7/22/2018

I read this, but I’m not sure I could convince anyone.

The Singularity Trap by Dennis E. Taylor

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I had never heard of Dennis E. Taylor prior to reading the first book in his Bobiverse series last year. I enjoyed that book immensely; so much so, in fact, that I think I oversold it in my review. Setting all that aside, though, the series was still a highlight of the year, and I’ll read any future novels he writes in the universe. So, seeing that he’s come out with a new book piqued my interest. I think it’s an Audible-only release, though. The book was read by Ray Porter, one of my favorite narrators. He also did Taylor’s […]

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7/8/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:15 |

The implacable horror of isolation

The Terror by Dan Simmons

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There are books that speak to you. Books that reach down into the core of your inner being to play the delicate chords of your heart strings. Books that stay with you, becoming a passenger for life, indelibly connecting you to a particular place and time, like some kind of existential anchor of permanence in a sea of change. Moby Dick is one such book, for me. That book haunts me. It’s the girl I had a crush on in high school but was too afraid to talk to. It’s a cherished memory that I frequently reflect on but can never […]

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6/22/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:14 |

The confluence of stupidity and evil incarnate

The Monster of Florence by Douglas Preston & Mario Spezi

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Between 1968 and 1985, a series of double murders horrified the province of Florence, Italy. These murders have been laid at the feet of Il Mostro di Firenze, The Monster of Florence. Douglas Preston, author of Relic and other novels with his writing partner Lincoln Child, moved to Florence to write a novel, only to find that one of the aforementioned murders happened across the street from his house. Thus began a years long fascination with the serial killer, and the abandonment of his very purpose for being in Italy. It sounds like a grand adventure, doesn’t it? Being in a beautiful […]

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6/21/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:13 |

A compelling, if largely implausible theory of the Zodiac Killer

The Most Dangerous Animal of All: Searching for My Father...And Finding the Zodiac Killer by Gary Stewart with Susan Mustafa

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In my last review, of Bind, Torture, Kill: The Inside Story of the Serial Killer Next Door, Mrs. Smith recommended that I check this book out. I picked it up the next day. So, thanks Mrs. Smith for the recommendation. First things first, I ended up enjoying this book quite a bit. Setting aside the conclusions he comes to, there’s a pretty good story here. Gary Stewart was abandoned as a baby, but was soon adopted by a great couple who raised him in a stable Christian household full of love. At the age of 39, his birth mother contacted […]

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5/19/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:12 |

An excellent account of horrendous events

Bind, Torture, Kill: The Inside Story of the Serial Killer Next Door by Roy Wenzl, L. Kelly, Tim Potter, and Hurst Laviana

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In lieu of the recent arrest in Sacramento, California of the East Area Rapist/Original Nightstalker/Golden State Killer and the hopes that the genealogical studies that led to his arrest could be used to discover the identity of the Zodiac Killer, I felt compelled to read about another serial killer who seemingly retired from terrorizing his community so that he could live a normal life. Both EAR/ONS and BTK because it’s utterly mind-boggling that this happens, and runs counter to the narrative usually put out there about serial killers. BTK terrorized Wichita, Kansas in the late 70s, beginning with the murder […]

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5/12/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:11 |

A man grows what he can, and tends it.

Pet Semetary by Stephen King

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I’ve always read King with a bit of detached bemusement. I love his writing for the languid ease with which he captures the chronic normalcy of everyday life in a small town. When people tell me they don’t read King because he’s too scary, I’m always a little surprised that that’s the takeaway people have. I’ve never been scared by his books. But his characters….. His characterization is amazing, and the world he populates with those characters leaves me in awe. To that point, I haven’t been scared by any horror story since I was in the sixth grade and […]

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5/1/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:10 |


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