Nonfiction and Nonsense

  • Scent of Darkness by Christina Dodd

    Shapeshifting romance novels are currently very trendy. There seem to be so many of them in existence right now, indeed, it seems more are being published every day, that you would have no problem finding one at any bookstore or second hand book selling site. If this is the type of story you are interested…

  • Missing 411: A Sobering Coincidence by David Paulides

    Missing 411: A Sobering Coincidence, isn’t a book so much as it is an accumulation of briefly summarized missing persons reports. The victims outlined in this book, the fifth in a ten part collection, are young men that disappear without a trace and are found in or near bodies of water. The author delivers the…

  • Fire Study by Maria V. Snyder – Chapters 18-36 and final thoughts

    Fire Study comes to a clean conclusion, but not without a great deal of turmoil leading up to it. While I was reading, there were many passages I came across that made me feel similar to the way I felt when I was watching Infinity War. I just kept thinking, this isn’t going to end…

  • Fire Study by Maria V. Snyder – Chapters 1-17

    Fire Study starts off slow, with Yelena continuing her magic lessons, but as of right now, the beginning is the only slow part in this story. A possible trail leading towards Cahil and Ferde is detected, and Yelena and a small crew leave the Citadel to seek them out. You will not get a break…

  • The Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future of Food by Dan Barber – Part 4 and final thoughts

    The final section of this book is titled Seed.  In the first chapter of this part we find out how Klaas, the organic farmer we met at the very beginning of the book, met his wife. It’s actually really cute and the circumstances are very fitting. I also learned about the lake effect, in which…