This is going to serve as both a look ahead at City and a Rule Three review for Space Opera…because I put it down after about 20 minutes and don’t feel like devoting time to talking about the book. In summation, it was written by someone that thought The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy was extremely clever (which it was) and thought that fitting even […]
Title: Dragon Noir Author: Daniel Moylan Date Purchased: 11/28/2018 Price Paid: $2.99 Date Finished: 7/25/2021Rating: 0/5 It’s no secret to my regular readers that I struggle to walk away from a book. There’s something about sticking it out to the end that is in my nature. But when you’ve got 171 books to get through? You need to make some hard choices. If a book […]
Title: The Goldfinch Author: Donna Tartt Date Purchased: 10/24/2017Price Paid: $5.29Date Finished: 5/29/2021Rating: 0/5 Life is short, you know? It’s a weird thing to have to remind yourself, but I think readers can find themselves trapped and this is something we need to keep in mind. This is why I created Rule Three to begin with, and yet I still have to remind myself of […]
Title: The Charm School Author: Nelson DeMille Date Purchased: 9/13/2017Price Paid: $3.17Date Finished: 5/9/2021Rating: 0/5 Two Rule Three books in a row? This doesn’t bode well for the entirety of this project. I don’t know what the end result will be, but I wasn’t anticipating having to knock out two in a row. Regardless, here we are and it’s time to take a short dive […]
Title: The Timekeepers’ War Author: S.C. Jensen Date Purchased: 9/5/2017 Price Paid: $3.17 Date Finished: 5/1/2021 Rating: 0/5 (Rule Three) When a book fails to grab me I start to think about the reasons why. In this case, I think there were a few factors at play, and only some of them were really the book’s fault. But at the end of the day it […]
Title: The HeroesAuthor: Joe AbercrombieDate Purchased: 11/24/2013Price Paid: $2.11Date Finished: 11/20/2020Rating: 0/5 (Rule Three) Wow. When I set out to read through my backlog, I didn’t really expect to invoke Rule Three on the very first book. I also didn’t expect to spend most of 2020 confined to my house, and we all know how THAT turned out.