Book #178 of 2025: 107 Days by Kamala Harris Plenty of books have been written about modern politics, but the most obvious comparison point for this particular one is probably Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign memoir What Happened, produced in the wake of her loss to Donald Trump in the 2016 election for president. Kamala Harris …
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Book Review: Murdle: Volume 3 by G. T. Karber
Book #177 of 2025: Murdle: Volume 3 by G. T. Karber Another hundred logic-grid puzzles of increasing complexity, identical in format to the previous volumes but totally standalone besides a few Easter Egg connections of returning characters and the like. (I particularly love the ones involving contradictory witness statements, where you have to figure out …
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Book Review: Silver Elite by Dani Francis
Book #176 of 2025: Silver Elite by Dani Francis (Silver Elite #1) A whole lot of fun and just a little bit trashy, this romantasy title reads like a wild blend of the steamy military academy vibes from Fourth Wing and the covert revolutionary mission from Red Rising. Our heroine is a telepath, a member …
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TV Review: Star Wars: Visions, season 3
TV #52 of 2025: Star Wars: Visions, season 3 I rated the previous batches of this experimental Star Wars anthology as two and four stars respectively, and so this latest one will get a rating of three from me, as it lands comfortably between the first pair. Like before, each episode is the product of …
Book Review: Royal Gambit by Daniel O’Malley
Book #175 of 2025: Royal Gambit by Daniel O’Malley (The Checquy Files #4) I think this 2025 title is my favorite installment of its urban fantasy series yet, and like the others, it can essentially be read as a standalone piece. The Checquy are a British intelligence agency tasked with protecting the realm from supernatural …
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Book Review: Doctor Who: Love and War by Paul Cornell
Book #174 of 2025: Doctor Who: Love and War by Paul Cornell (Virgin New Adventures #9) The New Adventures series of Doctor Who novels, put out by Virgin Publishing after the TV show went off the air in 1989, has until now played somewhat safe with its core premise. The Seventh Doctor and Ace were …
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Movie Review: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
Movie #20 of 2025: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) Neither Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) nor Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) ever mentioned that the titular archaeologist’s father was a fellow antiquities scholar, but he fits seamlessly into the plot of this third film in a way that, for …
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Book Review: Telegraph Avenue by Michael Chabon
Book #173 of 2025: Telegraph Avenue by Michael Chabon A sprawling novel of two families, one Black and one Jewish — husbands who run a used record store, wives who operate a midwife practice, and teenage sons who are secretly romantically involved — in a time of turmoil for their extended California community. I’ve generally …
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Movie Review: V for Vendetta (2005)
Movie #19 of 2025: V for Vendetta (2005) Seemingly more timely now than it was two decades ago upon release, this movie offers a thrilling tale of a terrorist antihero inspiring people in dystopian England to rise up against their oppressive government. (Things in the U.S. are obviously nowhere near as bad as they are …
Book Review: You Weren’t Meant to Be Human by Andrew Joseph White
Book #172 of 2025: You Weren’t Meant to Be Human by Andrew Joseph White If you’ve read any of author Andrew Joseph White’s YA works, you know that they tend to be rich in both horror themes and #ownvoices details pulled from his own transgender experiences, often with those two elements structurally intertwined in order …
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