Mark Haddon’s The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time has one of the most authentic narrators of any novel. Christopher Boone is an autistic 15-year old trying to navigate the world around him. He tells his story in the form of a book
Season of Storms by Andrzej Sapkowski was published after the main series. It is listed as #0.6, putting it in between The Last Wish and Sword of Destiny. I read it third and found it to be an entertaining, fast read. Some say to read
Continuing my journey through The Witcher fantasy series, I picked up Sword of Destiny. This is a prequel to the main series published by Andrzej Sapkowski. It is really a collection of short stories but provides a lot of interesting backstory to the main character
I heard this trilogy hyped a lot on YouTube so decided to give it a go. The Blade Itself is the first book in “The First Law” trilogy written by British author, Joe Abercrombie. This fantasy is not quite up to the “epic” or “high”
The Last Wish is our introduction to Geralt, the Witcher. His job is straightforward. You hire him to kill monstrous beings for money. But his services don’t come cheap. The book is a series of short tales, interconnected with various flashbacks. We jump around in
The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science by Sam Kean covers twelve detailed stories of science gone criminal. The stories are roughly chronological and build on one another. None of these scientists can be painted
The Power of the Dog by Don Winslow is a historical fiction novel centered around USA’s “war on drugs”. The story follows border lord Art Keller as he tries to take down drug lord Adan Barrera. During this years long battle, we are introduced to
A Cure For Darkness: The Story of Depression and How We Treat It by Alex Riley is a near-complete history of depression and the various methods of treatment. From Freud to psilocybin, ECT to LSD, Riley compiles a detailed walk-through of mental health issues. He
Project Hail Mary is Andy Weir’s third and possibly best novel. In this book we awake with our main character uncertain where he is. He doesn’t even know his name. We soon discover he was in a coma, he’s in a hospital like room, and
Artemis is a city on Earth’s Moon. It is a playground for rich vacationers. But for Jazz Bashara, it is home. Andy Weir’s second book Artemis is about Jazz, a twenty-something year old that grew up on the Moon. Much of the story involves her