The Best (and Worst) Books I read in 2018

This year I just barely made my reading goal (but finished the 700 page slog Insomnia on January 1, 2019) but also didn't need to rush or do any change of habits to get it finished. Over the course of the year I finished 75 books, giving 13 of them five stars. I continued reading the Hugo...

My Five Favorite Books I Read During 2017

I read 80 books this year, with those split up into reading challenge books, audiobooks, extended series and stuff that just looked fun. I'm continuing to make my way through all of Stephen King's books, as well as the Richard Sharpe, Pip & Flinx, and Repairman Jack series. I'm also still reading biographies on every...

The Start Here to Fifty Amazing Authors Reading Challenge

A few years back, my wife and I used to get on Kickstarter.com every week and try to look at every project on the website.  We’d open up our favorites into separate windows, then watch the videos to weed out the ones that weren’t as interesting as their titles.  From there we’d look at the...

Rank the Author: Bret Easton Ellis

Making his debut at age 21 with the dark and twisted “Less Than Zero,” Bret Easton Ellis is one of the few authors to achieve both celebrity level fame and vitriol in equal levels throughout his career.  For many, his stories are written simply to shock and titillate from a misogynistic viewpoint.  For others he...