Nonfiction and Nonsense

  • The Betrayal Knows My Name, Volume 2 by Hotaru Odagiri

    Almost the entire Volume 2 omnibus is a battle between the Giou clan and a powerful Opast, a demon, who is taking advantage of lovesick girls in order to gain more power. As more and more girls are lured in with the promise of being able to get attention from the boys they so desperately…

  • The Betrayal Knows My Name, Volume 1 by Hotaru Odagiri

    I’m doing something a little different this week. I’ve been having some health issues, and getting to the bottom of things has been taking up a lot of my time and energy, including my mental energy. I have found that it is too difficult for me to concentrate on an intellectual read while I’m worrying…

  • The Lost World by Michael Crichton

    Another week has gone by and I still haven’t finished the book I started two weeks ago. I feel like no one is going to believe that I have actually finished the book once I do, and that I will have made the review up. If it wasn’t for a sudden onset of abdominal pain…

  • Into the Flame by Christina Dodd

    I was supposed to have finished a book on sociology for this week’s review, but it is taking me longer to read than I originally thought (I’ll explain more next week). So instead this week I have finished reading the fourth book in the Darkness Chosen series, Into the Flame.  So I made a few…

  • Into the Shadow by Christina Dodd

    I was able to read the third book in the Darkness Chosen series over this past week and it was just as good as the previous book, Touch of Darkness. The plot is kind of similar to the last book, as we follow the story of the third brother, Adrik, and his love interest, Karen,…