The Handyman Method

Trent, Rita and their son Milo arrive at their new home located in their new suspiciously unfinished subdivision and while getting settled, it isn’t long before they uncover shoddy workmanship throughout their property.  Driven to fix it himself, Trent tackles the work head on.  However, as the work becomes increasingly complicated, it takes a toll on…

A Carnival of Snackery

David Sedaris returns with his second collection of diary entries. A Carnival of Snackery spans from 2003 all the way up to 2020. This is a hard one to review and it will entirely depend on if you’re already a big fan of David’s work. By no means should anyone begin their Sedaris journey with…

Nemesis Games

With the Rocinante laid up for repairs and Holden sticking around Tycho Station with the ship, crew members Naomi, Amos and Alex take some time off to tie up a few loose ends lingering in their personal lives.  However, it wouldn’t be a novel in The Expanse series if things didn’t go pear-shaped pretty quickly.…

2015 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2015 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 6,100 times in 2015. If it were a NYC subway train, it would take about 5 trips to carry that many people. Click here to…

Scary Book Month

Hi Folks! This October, I’ll be partaking in a Halloween (or horror, if you will) themed month here on Every Read Thing.  So for all thirty-one spoooooky days, I’ll be making my way through frightening fiction and creepy comics. Here’s what’s on tap so far: Carrie – Stephen King The Ruins – Scott Smith Blackout – Tim…

Hardcase

Over the past 2 years, I’ve discovered that my favorite books to read are crime fiction. I fell for the genre when I picked up my first Charlie Parker novel and have never looked back – reading stuff by Stieg Larsson, Connolly, Koontz and Jeff Lindsay. With those authors, I have yet to even crack…

Tough Sh*t

It’s been 10 years since I watched my first Kevin Smith movie. Since then, I’ve seen all of his films, read all of his books and graphic novels, listened to hundreds of episodes of shows contained on the SModcast network and taken in two live shows. Therefore, it’s fair to say that I’m a pretty…