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D.L. Orton
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Under Water — Tara Menon Rating: 4/5 — ★★★★☆ — Recommended ✅ I wanted to love this. The voice caught me immediately—sharp, strange, alive—but the author kept stepping onto the page, and every intrusion snapped the spell. The stranger turns needed seduct ...more |
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Command and Control — Eric Schlosser Rating: 5/5 — ★★★★★ — Recommended ✅ I tore through this. It moves fast, but every page carries the cold weight of machinery, procedure, and catastrophe waiting behind a switch. The details are staggering. The near m ...more |
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The Calamity Club — Kathryn Stockett Rating: 4/5 — ★★★★☆ — Recommended ✅ The two stories weave together beautifully, crossing and tightening until they feel inseparable. That structure gives the book its pulse and kept pulling me forward. I did stumble ...more |
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Behemoth — Ronald B. Tobias Rating: 5/5 — ★★★★★ — Recommended ✅ I was completely absorbed. The research is meticulous, but never dry; every strange detail, newspaper clipping, spectacle, and cruelty sharpens the picture of elephants in America. The pas ...more |
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Road to Tender Hearts — Annie Hartnett Rating: 4.25/5 — ★★★★☆ ¼ — Recommended ✅ I liked the strange little glow this book carries. Its world moves like a backroad at dusk: dusty, odd, lit from the edges. The whimsy lands because the characters feel scu ...more |
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Isola — Allegra Goodman Rating: 4/5 — ★★★★☆ — Recommended w/ reservations ✅ The story moved like a lantern through fog: controlled, intimate, and quietly dangerous. The voice carries the chill. The protagonist has a strong pull, each scene pressing for ...more |
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“Oh, come on. Drama is just life with the dull bits cut out.”
“Well, I’m ready for a long patch of boredom.”
― Crossing in Time
“Well, I’m ready for a long patch of boredom.”
― Crossing in Time
“Minutes turn into hours, and lifetimes into moments. Universes are created and destroyed with nary a pop. What was saved, no longer ex- ists. What was lost, no longer matters.”
― Crossing in Time
― Crossing in Time
“Death,” Madders says in his professor voice, “is not as glamorous as the brochure makes it out to be.”
― Hive: A Dystopian Time-Travel Thriller
― Hive: A Dystopian Time-Travel Thriller
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“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.”
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“The human eye is a wonderful device. With a little effort, it can fail to see even the most glaring injustice.”
― Altered Carbon
― Altered Carbon
“The world is your exercise book, the pages on which you do your sums. It is not reality, though you may express reality there if you wish. You are also free to write lies, or nonsense, or to tear the pages.”
― Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
― Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
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Hi Beth!Nice to see you over here, too!
Can you believe all the snow we've been getting!?
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Hi Deb,Thanks for befriending this fellow Colorado writer here as well as elsewhere!