908 ratings | 575 reviews | avg rating:4.42

Curtis’s Year In Books

Curtis’s 2025 Year in Books

Take a look at Curtis’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.

Go to Curtis’s 2025 Year in Books

Curtis Edmonds’s Followers (90)

Curtis’s Bookshelves

to-read (59)
currently-reading (13)
read (980)
did-not-finish (5)

Curtis’s Friends (378)

GiGi Dub

706 books | 82 friends

Kfir Luzzatto

261 books | 415 friends

Martin Blackshaw

457 books | 724 friends

Rob S.

3,730 books | 329 friends

Robin O'Bryant

802 books | 1,446 friends

Jessica Khoury

595 books | 1,587 friends

William

230 books | 5,365 friends

Arthur

141 books | 4,152 friends

More friends…

Curtis Edmonds

Goodreads Author

Born

in San Antonio, The United States

Website

http://www.curtisedmonds.com/

Twitter

Curtis_Edmonds

Genre

Young Adult, Fantasy, Ebooks

Influences

P.J. O'Rourke, Max Brooks ...more

Member Since

February 2012

edit data

My name is Curtis Edmonds; I am a self-published author living in central New Jersey. My new novel, A CIRCLE OF MOONLIGHT, comes out on December 21, 2021.

Learn more
Ask the Author

To ask Curtis Edmonds questions, please sign up.

Combine Editions
Curtis Edmonds’s books

Average rating: 3.64 · 842 ratings · 166 reviews · 12 distinct works • Similar authors

	Rain on Your Wedding Day 3.76 avg rating — 354 ratings — published 2013 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wreathed 3.37 avg rating — 291 ratings — published 2014 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	If My Name Was Amanda by Curtis Edmonds (Goodreads Author), Mat Sadler (Illustrator) 3.83 avg rating — 145 ratings — published 2017 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Circle of Firelight 3.26 avg rating — 27 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Overmorrow: Stories of Our Bright Future by Jon Garett (Editor), Richard Walsh (Editor), Allen Baird 4.33 avg rating — 9 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Snowflake's Chance: The 2016 Campaign Diary of Justin T. Fairchild, Social Justice Warrior 4.38 avg rating — 8 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Design For Happiness by W.V. Myres, Curtis Edmonds (Goodreads Author) (Introduction) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1961 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lies I Have Told it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Circle of Moonlight (Circle Saga, #2) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	[Wreathed] [Author: Edmonds, Curtis] [October, 2014] by Curtis Edmonds (Goodreads Author), Unknown Author 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

More books by Curtis Edmonds…

241 posts
Curtis Edmonds's Blog

Your Super-Helpful Guide to the Space Shooter Game for Reasonable Adults

Everyone has to like something, and I like Space Shooter. It is a very stupid, inane game–basically a knock-off of the old Galaga game that I grew up with. It’s a simple, reliable way to kill a few minutes of dead time on your phone when there’s nothing else to do. I like it because there are a lot of different ways to play the game so you don’t get bored.

But like anything you love, it can annoy

Series by Curtis Edmonds

Circle Saga (2 books)
by

Curtis Edmonds (Goodreads Author)

3.26 avg rating — 27 ratings

Curtis is Currently Reading

Curtis Edmonds is currently reading

Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)

by Heather Fawcett (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: currently-reading

Rate this book

Clear rating

1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

Apr 29, 2026 08:14PM

Curtis Edmonds is currently reading

True Color: The Strange and Spectacular Quest to Define Color—from Azure to Zinc Pink

by Kory Stamper (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: currently-reading

Rate this book

Clear rating

1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

Curtis Edmonds said: " I have a child who is allergic to nonfiction--not all kinds of books, just nonfiction. (We read to them until they made it to high school, every night, all of Harry Potter and Tolkien, and one time I read "Oranges" by John McPhee, and this child stil I have a child who is allergic to nonfiction--not all kinds of books, just nonfiction. (We read to them until they made it to high school, every night, all of Harry Potter and Tolkien, and one time I read "Oranges" by John McPhee, and this child still resents me for that, so you get the idea.) I told her I was reading a book about color, and she said, "Why?"

"Well. it's not about color. It's about how you define color in a dictionary."

"Oh, my God, why would you want to read that?"

Reader, she had a point.

If you look at the cover, and the title, you would think--anyone would think--that this was a book about color. It is not. If you read the subtitle, the word "define" appears, and that gives the game away. This is about how you define what color is in a dictionary. Specifically, how they defined color in two dictionary editions in the mid-twentieth century. And the book is that way because the author is a lexicographer, and she has unlimited access to the Merriman-Webster archives, which is the source for most of the book, and that is why the book is the way it is and if you are going to read this book you need to know that ahead of time because otherwise you are going to be dreadfully disappointed.

At some level, I think, most people can understand the difficulty that the long-ago lexicographers of yore had in defining color. I mean, think of a color, any color you like, and try to figure out how you would put it in the dictionary. I am right this second looking at the next book I have to review, which is TWELVE MONTHS by Jim Butcher, and it has a glowy fiery yellow sigil in the background. What color is that? It's yellow, but it's not buttercup-yellow or mustard-yellow or goldenrod or any other sort of shade like that, it's more golden than anything else, but a very yellowy gold, if that makes sense, and if you are reading this review (thank you for reading this far) you will get the idea that there is difficulty in defining that. And the printing process being what it is, well, you can't just print out a blob of color, because that's difficult to do, and expensive, and...

And, well, why would you want to do that? You know what "yellow" is already, you don't need to go to the dictionary to figure that out, I mean, you've known what "yellow" is your whole life. But if you are writing a dictionary (an unabridged dictionary!), you can't just leave words out because everyone knows what that means. You have to have some way to define things.

So, you know, I get it. And if there had been a laser-like focus on color and how color was defined at, let's say, the length of a long magazine article, it would have been okay. That is not this book. Because there is a stretch in this book, a very long stretch, where the author explores the transition between the second edition of the dictionary, and the third edition of the dictionary, and the personalities and the HR decisions that went into setting up the team that was writing the third edition, and none of this (I can't stress this enough) has anything to do with color, and the purpose of all of this is to set up the idea that one of the senior staff was, hmm, how to say this, not the sort of person you would want to work for. And then when the narrative turns back to color, you get paragraphs like this:

His work on the Third was a source of frustration or confusion for his friends at the NBS, though, who couldn't understand why the lexicographers wer second-guessing a system based on scientific principles, and why they were dictating that science move at the pase of publishing, when obviously any scientist knows it's the opposite. When Godlove wrote in 1953 to the NBS colorimetrist Kenneth Kelly to ask if the ISCC-NBS committee had finished all the Munsell notation for the charts--Merriman would need them--Kelly was baffled as to why he couldn't just wait until the NBS had property reviewed, set, and published the new notations.

And it goes on like that, for pages, and other than a little bit of good-natured ribbing by the author aimed towards her long-ago lexicographer subjects, that is what you are going to get.

I did not finish this book (this is about 60% of the way through, which is about where I stopped) and absent a sudden recurrence of insomnia I am probably not going to finish it. I gave it four stars because it is, absolutely, one hundred percent, the single best book that was ever written or that is ever going to be written about how color was defined in mid-century American dictionaries. Why anyone would want to read that is, sadly, well beyond me. ...more "

Jan 04, 2026 05:42PM · see review

Curtis Edmonds is currently reading

Generation Ship

by Michael Mammay (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: currently-reading

Rate this book

Clear rating

1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

Feb 16, 2024 08:09PM

rss
Curtis’s Recent Updates

Curtis Edmonds rated a book did not like it First Witches Club by Maisey Yates (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
All the people in this book are whiny, and that's true even if they have a lot to be whiny about. Did not finish, could not be made to care. ...more
May 03, 2026 01:48PM · like · see review · preview book See a Problem? We’d love your help. Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of First Witches Club by Maisey Yates. Problem: Details (if other): Thanks for telling us about the problem. Not the book you’re looking for? Preview — First Witches Club by Maisey Yates <iframe sandbox id="wrongBookKindlePreviewScreen">
Curtis Edmonds is currently reading Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1) by Heather Fawcett (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Apr 29, 2026 08:14PM · like · preview book See a Problem? We’d love your help. Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett. Problem: Details (if other): Thanks for telling us about the problem. Not the book you’re looking for? Preview — Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett <iframe sandbox id="wrongBookKindlePreviewScreen">
Curtis Edmonds rated a book really liked it Revenge Prey (Lucas Davenport #36) by John Sandford	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
This is not a review. It is a warning. You have been warned. I started this book thinking that it was about Amanda Fisk, because John Sandford (praise be unto him) had left the last book (LETHAL PREY) on a cliffhanger as to whether the serial killer / ...more
Apr 28, 2026 07:02AM · 3 likes · like · see review · preview book See a Problem? We’d love your help. Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of Revenge Prey by John Sandford. Problem: Details (if other): Thanks for telling us about the problem. Not the book you’re looking for? Preview — Revenge Prey by John Sandford <iframe sandbox id="wrongBookKindlePreviewScreen">
Curtis Edmonds rated a book it was ok Too Like the Lightning (Terra Ignota, #1) by Ada Palmer (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
I thought that this book was brilliant, extraordinarily well-written, and thoughtful in a way that you don't see very often. And I hated it. I hated it like broccoli, like Gracie Abrams music, like the San Francisco Forty-Niners. Hate, hate hate. This ...more
Apr 19, 2026 11:33AM · like · see review · preview book See a Problem? We’d love your help. Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer. Problem: Details (if other): Thanks for telling us about the problem. Not the book you’re looking for? Preview — Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer <iframe sandbox id="wrongBookKindlePreviewScreen">
Curtis Edmonds did not finish First Witches Club by Maisey Yates (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Apr 19, 2026 11:33AM · like · preview book See a Problem? We’d love your help. Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of First Witches Club by Maisey Yates. Problem: Details (if other): Thanks for telling us about the problem. Not the book you’re looking for? Preview — First Witches Club by Maisey Yates <iframe sandbox id="wrongBookKindlePreviewScreen">
Curtis Edmonds rated a book it was ok Too Like the Lightning (Terra Ignota, #1) by Ada Palmer (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
I thought that this book was brilliant, extraordinarily well-written, and thoughtful in a way that you don't see very often. And I hated it. I hated it like broccoli, like Gracie Abrams music, like the San Francisco Forty-Niners. Hate, hate hate. This ...more
Apr 19, 2026 10:27AM · like · see review · preview book See a Problem? We’d love your help. Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer. Problem: Details (if other): Thanks for telling us about the problem. Not the book you’re looking for? Preview — Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer <iframe sandbox id="wrongBookKindlePreviewScreen">
Curtis Edmonds did not finish Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones by James Clear (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Mar 26, 2026 07:14AM · like · preview book See a Problem? We’d love your help. Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of Atomic Habits by James Clear. Problem: Details (if other): Thanks for telling us about the problem. Not the book you’re looking for? Preview — Atomic Habits by James Clear <iframe sandbox id="wrongBookKindlePreviewScreen">
Curtis Edmonds did not finish Has Anyone Seen My Toes? by Christopher Buckley	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Mar 26, 2026 07:10AM · like
Curtis Edmonds did not finish The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't by Nate Silver	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Mar 26, 2026 07:02AM · like · preview book See a Problem? We’d love your help. Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of The Signal and the Noise by Nate Silver. Problem: Details (if other): Thanks for telling us about the problem. Not the book you’re looking for? Preview — The Signal and the Noise by Nate Silver <iframe sandbox id="wrongBookKindlePreviewScreen">
Curtis Edmonds rated a book it was amazing End of Days: Ruby Ridge, the Apocalypse, and the Unmaking of America by Chris Jennings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
I have heard, at least in my early career, far too much about Ruby Ridge. I used to work for a U.S. Senator in Texas, and part of that involved picking up the phone and listening to people, and this was the early 1990's and people would call just to ...more
Mar 23, 2026 06:14AM · like · see review · preview book See a Problem? We’d love your help. Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of End of Days by Chris Jennings. Problem: Details (if other): Thanks for telling us about the problem. Not the book you’re looking for? Preview — End of Days by Chris Jennings <iframe sandbox id="wrongBookKindlePreviewScreen">

More of Curtis's books…

Quotes by Curtis Edmonds (?)

“fighting for the cause since I tried starting a Working Families Party club in middle school.” “How did that work out for you?” Polly asked. “In New Haven? It was awesome. The only problem,” I admitted, “was that we could never get anyone from any working families to show up.”
― Curtis Edmonds, Snowflake's Chance: The 2016 Campaign Diary of Justin T. Fairchild, Social Justice Warrior

1 likes

“I had been trying to find some sort of exercise program that wasn’t overly bourgeois, but I was having a problem. Weight-lifting was too obviously fascist in nature. Horseback riding was too imperialistic. I gave a lot of thought to starting a co-ed softball league, but that turns out to be closely tied to beer consumption, and I didn’t need the carbohydrates. I had to do something to improve my health that didn’t compromise my revolutionary ethics. (I went so far as to ask my mother for advice on the subject, and she sent me a link to a Chinese tour company that specialized in re-enactments of the Long March, which sounded fascinating but would take me away from Washington at a pivotal time in history, so I didn’t sign up.)”
― Curtis Edmonds, Snowflake's Chance: The 2016 Campaign Diary of Justin T. Fairchild, Social Justice Warrior

1 likes

“It’s in Iowa,” I said. “Oh, so she’s volunteering for the campaign? That’s great.” “Yes, she is, and no, it isn’t. She’s working for Senator Sanders.” “She is not,” Emma said. “You are making that up. Your mom knows Hillary from way back.” “She knows Bernie from way back, too,” I said. “She was the co-chairman of Leninists for Sanders from the first time that he ran for Senate.” “Leninists for Sanders?” “Well, there were only six of them. But they were very vocal.”
― Curtis Edmonds, Snowflake's Chance: The 2016 Campaign Diary of Justin T. Fairchild, Social Justice Warrior

1 likes

See all Curtis Edmonds's quotes »

Topics Mentioning This Author

topics	posts	views	last activity
The Seasonal Read...: Spring Challenge 2013 Completed Tasks - DO NOT DELETE ANY POSTS IN THIS TOPIC!	2808	782	May 31, 2013 09:02PM
Crazy Challenge C...: New-to-You Authors 2014	742	195	Jun 14, 2015 09:03PM

Curtis’s Quotes

“A wise man once said that human beings were programmed to like boundary conditions—places like tree houses, mountain cabins, or transgressive gay bars. Boundary conditions exist in places where you can stay in one element and look at another different and fascinating element for as long as you wanted. That’s why people like beach towns like Cape May; you can sit and look at the ocean, or go in the ocean and look back at the land, whatever’s more fun. If that’s true, then maybe that’s why people go to funerals. Funerals are the boundary condition between life and afterlife. Sheldon Berkman had crossed the boundary between”
― Curtis Edmonds, Wreathed

1 likes

Curtis’s Friend Comments

No comments have been added yet.

Curtis’s Year In Books

Curtis Edmonds’s Followers (90)

Curtis’s Bookshelves

Curtis’s Friends (378)

Curtis Edmonds

Goodreads Author

Learn more
Ask the Author

Popular Answered Questions

Combine Editions
Curtis Edmonds’s books

241 posts
Curtis Edmonds's Blog

Your Super-Helpful Guide to the Space Shooter Game for Reasonable Adults

Series by Curtis Edmonds

Curtis is Currently Reading

rss
Curtis’s Recent Updates

See a Problem?

Preview — First Witches Club by Maisey Yates

See a Problem?

Preview — Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett

See a Problem?

Preview — Revenge Prey by John Sandford

See a Problem?

Preview — Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer

See a Problem?

Preview — First Witches Club by Maisey Yates

See a Problem?

Preview — Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer

See a Problem?

Preview — Atomic Habits by James Clear

See a Problem?

Preview — The Signal and the Noise by Nate Silver

See a Problem?

Preview — End of Days by Chris Jennings

Topics Mentioning This Author

Curtis’s Quotes

recent posts
Curtis’s Groups

Curtis’s Friend Comments

Curtis Edmonds’s Followers (90)

Curtis Edmonds

Goodreads Author

Popular Answered Questions

rssCurtis’s Recent Updates

See a Problem?

Preview — First Witches Club by Maisey Yates

See a Problem?

Preview — Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett

See a Problem?

Preview — Revenge Prey by John Sandford

See a Problem?

Preview — Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer

See a Problem?

Preview — First Witches Club by Maisey Yates

See a Problem?

Preview — Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer

See a Problem?

Preview — Atomic Habits by James Clear

See a Problem?

Preview — The Signal and the Noise by Nate Silver

See a Problem?

Preview — End of Days by Chris Jennings

Topics Mentioning This Author

rss
Curtis’s Recent Updates