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You can always learn something, even amid explosion sound effects

Rivals! Frienemies Who Changed the World by Scott McCormick

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They say this is for ages 8 and up, and the sound effects and voices help with that, but there really is a lot of information in this!         I’ve Got a Bone to Pick with You! After finishing my other Audible Original for the month of July, The Grown-Up Guide to Dinosaurs, I thought I was pretty caught up on my dino knowledge.  Turns out, nope! That didn’t even mention anything (that I remember) that was featured in this section!  Maybe it was due to the fact that that one was made in England and this […]

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7/21/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No: 48 |

A Joy to listen to!

Jukebox Joyride by Jacob Stein, Jason Rabinowitz

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This was an Audible Originals pick for I think June, and I’m glad I picked it up. George and Jules are 11-year-old twins, and they love music.  George plays the guitar and Jules plays the drums, and they’re pretty good musicians.  They’re also pretty good kids, as evidenced by their interactions with their absent-minded mom.  Their love of music comes from their Uncle Bob, who is a top-notch ethnomusicologist. But Uncle Bob has disappeared.  Not just, left for work one day and was never heard from again, no, he literally disappeared, and on tape no less! He was on a […]

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7/21/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No: 45 |

I Am The Consuming Fire

The Consuming Fire by John Scalzi

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Good news! I didn’t have to wait until 2019 to get The Consuming Fire. Don’t read this review if you haven’t read The Collapsing Empire.

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Your Pinky Swear Sits on a Throne Of Lies

Head On: A Novel Of the Near Future by John Scalzi

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Last year I listened to Wil Wheaton narrate John Scalzi’s Lock In. Later in the year, angry dimples told me that Amber Benson had also narrated Lock In and that her narration was very good. I listened to it and agreed. As much as I enjoyed the Wil Wheaton narration, I liked Benson’s even better. And then we found out that both Wheaton and Benson were narrating versions of Scalzi’s follow up novel, Head On. We agreed, Benson first, Wheaton later. I enjoyed Head On quite a bit. In my Lock In review, I commented that I wouldn’t mind a series of Chris […]

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4/26/2018 | Post by

The Greatest Work That Four Men Have Ever Done

Paris 1919: Six Months that Changed the World by Margaret MacMillan

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Note: This review is long. The book was long and interesting, so the review is long, but may not be interesting. I love history, but I’m not a diligent scholar. My history knowledge is thin and wide spread with occasional deep dives. I have been fascinated by the events that led to World War 1, but didn’t know much about the Paris Peace Conference that dealt with the end of the war. Last year I listened to Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History series, “Blueprint for Armageddon.” At the end of it I wanted to know more about the end of WWI. […]

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What Does Humanity Mean?

The Last Colony and Sagan’s Diary by John Scalzi, William Dufris

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You can pick up any reasonably well written book and make a case for it being an exploration of what it means to be human, the state of humanity, or the universal truth of the human condition. Scalzi’s Old Man’s War series is very definitely asking what defines humanity. In the universe of the Old Man’s War series, Scalzi pushes the envelope of humanity. Colonial Defense Force soldiers are created when In The Last Colony, we return to the protagonist of Old Man’s War, John Perry. We rejoin Perry with his wife, Jane Sagan, a former special forces soldier created […]

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In the Future, Humans Are Still A-Holes

Fuzzy Nation by John Scalzi

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When I posted my review of The Collapsing Empire, Narfna told me I had to read Fuzzy Nation. I can’t remember where that conversation happened, but while I was waiting for my next Audible credit, I would remind myself not to get distracted. Fuzzy Nation was my mission. Other than Narfna’s recommendation and the cover, I had no idea what the book would be about. Fuzzy Nation is an eco-legal thriller in space. Humans still live on Earth, but they have expanded resource gathering to other planets. Companies claim planets and mine them for their resources, with the requirement that they do […]

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Climate Change, in Spaaaaaace!

The Collapsing Empire by John Scalzi, narrated by Wil Wheaton

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Humans have migrated into space and lost contact with Earth. They live now in an Empire they call The Interdependancy. There is no faster than light travel, the laws of physics forbid it. There is the Flow. The Flow isn’t well understood, but it has pathways, and those paths allow ships to travel between planets in months rather than years or centuries. The Empire is called The Interdependency because it is deliberately designed so that each colony depends on the others to survive. Each colony relies on the Flow to connect them and the Flow is about to shift. The […]

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