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Joel’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Joel’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Joel Jenkins
Goodreads Author
Member Since
June 2012
URL
https://www.goodreads.com/joel_jenkins
Writing a Biography
Here's a review of my novel One Foot in My Grave which is appended with an interview which examines the idea of approaching a biography from a first-person view point. Read more of this blog post »
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Dire Planet (Dire Planet Series #1)
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2009
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The Nuclear Suitcase (The Gantlet Brothers Book 1)
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2009
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The Coming of Crow (The Weird Adventures of Lone Crow #1)
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2014
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Exiles of the Dire Planet
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2007
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OCCULT Detectives Volume 1
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Into the Dire Planet
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2009
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PulpWork Halloween Special 2016
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The Condemnation of Crow (The Weird Adventures of Lone Crow #2)
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Devil Take the Hindmost (Denbrook Supernatural Book 1)
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2008
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Lost Tribes of the Dire Planet (Dire Planet #5)
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2012
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Joel’s Recent Updates
"This classic was sooo baaad. You know in these fancy introductions when these big shot professors are frothing about how brilliant this thing is that you are now about to read, well, in the introduction to this book the guy tells you right there he’s"
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| Looks like a lot of fun: catastrophic magic, fumbles, and a system that can damage and use up your equipment. | |
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| Ed Jenkins, the Phantom Crook, spends an awful lot of time in Chinatown disguised as various characters and hiding out from the law. He has allies and enemies there--and though you will find some racist slurs and generalizations, the real bad guys ar ...more | |
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The good: the line-up of Oracle, the Black Canary, Big Barda, with guest appearances by Wildstorm's Zealot and Grifter, and by DC's resident mystic John Constantine. The bad: The text boxes of 8 point type, Oracle dialogue written in green on a green ...more |
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The good: the line-up of Oracle, the Black Canary, Big Barda, with guest appearances by Wildstorm's Zealot and Grifter, and by DC's resident mystic John Constantine. The bad: The text boxes of 8 point type, Oracle dialogue written in green on a green ...more |
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Man or Monster? In the original Monster Men by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the author’s twist ending is that the protagonist is not actually a scientific creation of Professor Maxon but an amnesiac shipwrecked high society scion. Here Reynolds does no such ...more |
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| The only problem with this volume is that for two or three issues it switches away from the Jason Fabok art, and more importantly...it doesn't resolve the Injustice League storyline that came to a head in Volume 5. Instead, it skips right over the re ...more | |
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| Spoiler: It might be a little bit of a cop-out when we discover that Number Thirteen is not actually a creation of the mad Doctor Maxon, but rather a marooned amnesiac who was swapped into the embryo pod by the untrustworthy assistant VanHorn, but it ...more | |
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| Spoiler: It might be a little bit of a cop-out when we discover that Number Thirteen is not actually a creation of the mad Doctor Maxon, but rather a marooned amnesiac who was swapped into the embryo pod by the untrustworthy assistant VanHorn, but it ...more | |
“The drum of hoofbeats rang from the trail winding up the side of Telegraph Hill, and then the sound of footsteps preceding them came to Crow’s ears.”
― The Coming of Crow
― The Coming of Crow
“Lone Crow climbed Telegraph Hill, winding his way through clusters of tents and ramshackle wooden shelters of the Chileno encampment that clung to the slopes like barnacles on a ship’s hull.”
― The Coming of Crow
― The Coming of Crow
“Still, the badger-warrior’s momentum kept him running forward and Crow feared that upraised sword might be able to cleave either he or Ferguson in twain.”
― The Coming of Crow
― The Coming of Crow
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Weird Fiction:
Nominations for June 2023 Group Read
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5 | 12 | May 15, 2023 11:05PM | |
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Weird Fiction:
Nominations for July 2023 Group Read
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2 | 9 | Jun 17, 2023 09:56AM | |
| Weird Fiction: The Coming of Crow | 5 | 20 | Aug 05, 2023 01:29PM | |
| Weird Fiction: List of All Group Reads So Far | 21 | 45 | Dec 23, 2025 09:31PM |
