Book Reviews & Recommendations
In The Comfort Crisis: Embrace Discomfort To Reclaim Your Wild, Happy, Healthy Self, journalist Michael Easter makes a bold argument: our modern comfort is killing us slowly. With our climate-controlled homes, instant food delivery, and digital conveniences, we have eliminated nearly every […]
Before Rick Steves became a household name in travel, before his PBS shows, bestselling guidebooks, and travel podcasts, there was a young dreamer with a backpack, a notebook, and an unshakable curiosity about the world. On the Hippie Trail: Istanbul to Kathmandu […]
Shipwreck, mutiny, and the uneasy truth about empire and human nature Quick Take David Grann’s The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder is a propulsive work of narrative nonfiction that reads like a sea adventure and lands like a courtroom […]
In What the River Knows, Isabel Ibañez transports readers to nineteenth-century Egypt in a tale that blends ancient magic, family secrets, and forbidden love. It is the first installment of a planned duology and has been compared to The Mummy and Indiana […]
Christopher Buehlman’s The Blacktongue Thief is an exhilarating plunge into a dark, witty, and vividly alive fantasy world. With sharp humor, raw emotion, and cinematic worldbuilding, this novel marks Buehlman’s triumphant transition from horror to high fantasy. It is the first book […]
Stephen King has always been the master of storytelling that transcends boundaries between horror and hope, fantasy and fear, the ordinary and the extraordinary. In Fairy Tale, King opens a new door into a realm where reality and imagination collide. It is […]
Django Wexler’s How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying is what happens when epic fantasy crashes into Groundhog Day and Deadpool. It’s chaotic, clever, and absolutely bursting with energy. This is a story that gleefully mocks fantasy tropes while still […]
Matt Dinniman has done it again. The Eye of the Bedlam Bride, the sixth installment in the wildly addictive Dungeon Crawler Carl series, raises the stakes, deepens the lore, and delivers a blend of chaos and character growth that makes it one […]
Matt Dinniman’s fifth entry in the Dungeon Crawler Carl saga is the series at its boldest. The arena this time is the sixth floor, known as the Hunting Grounds, a lush kill-zone of jungle heat and Jurassic teeth. Outsiders are finally allowed […]
Matt Dinniman’s The Gate of the Feral Gods takes readers deeper into the ever-expanding chaos of the Dungeon Crawler Carl series, and by this point in the saga, the author shows no intention of slowing down. This fifth installment ramps up the […]