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This is interesting stuff. Granted, a lot of the science observations of structural differences between male and female brains is like, duh, just ask anyone who's been married for a few years if male and female brains are different, but still. The female brain's fixation on faces and reading information through them offers an unexpected potential explanation for modern young women's obsession with selfies.

About 75% of the way through this book and a vague vestige of plot is only now starting to happen...

This is way more fun than I ever expected.

What would it actually DO to a human being to follow all the precepts of 12 popular self-help books for a year, one book per month? The results may not be pretty, but they're definitely funny.

Carl Hiaasen tackling the orange shit gibbon is a thing of beauty, it must be said. I figured it would be funny, but I didn't expect it to be THIS funny, nor this delightfully skewering.

The only reason I am still reading this is perverse curiosity to see if this idiotic lead character is going to die by the end, as he's taken approximately 576 pts of damage, by my estimate.

"I've been watching YouTube videos since I was a KID!"
or...
How to immediately make me not take you seriously. I'm barely into this and it's already heavy with influencer-speak, 'LOL's in the text, and other misc that just makes me cringe.

Barely even into this and already it's excellent and involving. I'm thinking I need to look up more of Reeman's books, he apparently writes them just for me.

Had to switch over to this for a mental health break from reading Bob Woodward's "Peril", which was even more stressful than I'd imagined. This is the perfect lighthearted change of pace.

I read tons of horror novels and I'm only a half hour into this and it's already more terrifying than anything Stephen King ever dreamed up.

This is fun so far, and a marvelous idea, but good god, the lead character is unlikable. If I bail out of this, it'll be because of wanting to slap her and tell her to stop being a whining goth.

I think this may be the first Grady Hendrix book that I'm not really enjoying.

Revisiting a personal favorite, partly because I needed a breather after the latest Joe Ledger book, and partly because this is one of the most enjoyable "summer vacation" books I've read.

This has a much stronger horror-novel element than the prior Ledger books. A+!

I needed something upbeat after finishing another Elric book. This is as fun as always, though unfortunately the commitment to referring to the lead character as "they/them" is insanely annoying. I know today's gender warriors really want to push these genderless pronouns, but holy damn, it makes paragraphs hard to follow sometimes.

This book's biggest problem is that it turns on the tension of the hero struggling to decide if he should trust the Calvin & Meg family or a mystery group of opposed dudes, and if you've read any of the prior books you KNOW who the good guys are so there's not really any tension and all his internal debating just comes off as wasted book time.

I don't know how she got through the scenes with the religious crazies without invoking, "Only the true messiah denies her divinity!"

If you get to the point about 3 hours into the audiobook where you really want to strangle Nora for some suddenly terrible behavior, just keep reading...

My pet peeve with horror novels - Books that alternate chapters with the main cast with chapters with newly-introduced characters who are obviously there only to be killed. It's REALLY obvious when writers do this and it doesn't produce actual tension because you learn quick that these folks are only there to die.

I'm having a really difficult time getting into this one. I loved the first book to death - It was original and funny and the characters were excellent - but this one seems to be 85% accountants talking to each other. May be a DNF...

"Mars was old, tired, and steeped in every evil of a dying world. There, to the sinful cities of the Low Canals, came Eric John Stark, adventurer, roisterer, and outlaw from Earth."

Now THAT is a fist-punch of an opening paragraph.

This is the most sheer fun book I've read since Kings of the Wylde. At least, for anyone who grew up on Fright Night, Salem's Lot, and the Lost Boys.

This is great. Also, kids who are more like the beer-drinking, knife-toting, shotgun-armed Michael from Phantasm than the sad sort of helpless larvae kids that are allowed to be in books today.

This is kicking all kinds of ass. It plays like "What if Rambo went to Salem's Lot?"

This book is an A-Team episode set in space, and it's great.

My first recommended book from Grady Hendrix' reference, "Paperbacks from Hell", and it's a hoot.

The good ship 'Liza Dane? Someone's being cute. :D Time enough, I guess, for one more story... just to keep us warm.

Fun from the first paragraph. I'm thoroughly enjoying revisiting this after decades. It really is one of the founding stones of fantasy literature.

This amazingly generically-titled book is one of the best things I've read all year. Talk about a gripping thriller!