Book #126 of 2026: Doctor Who: Shadowmind by Christopher Bulis (Virgin New Adventures #16) I’m surprised this 1993 novel has such a poor reputation — including a 2.85 average rating on Goodreads — since I’ve found it to be a generally enjoyable time myself. A lot of the reviews complain that it reads more like …
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Book #125 of 2026: American Afterlives: Reinventing Death in the Twenty-First Century by Shannon Lee Dawdy An engaging nonfiction account of U.S. funerary practices — and to a lesser extent beliefs about the afterlife — and how they’ve been changing since the turn of the century. Coinciding with the rise in people identifying as “spiritual …
Book #124 of 2026: Carolina Moonset by Matt Goldman I like the idea of a character with dementia revealing details of an old forgotten crime to his visiting son, along with the background tension of the adult child having to navigate that new family dynamic. Unfortunately, the execution in this novel loses me, with greater …
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Book #123 of 2026: Sleep Donation by Karen Russell Interesting speculative premise here — an insomnia plague that’s killing people, the invention of a way to safely donate sleep to the afflicted à la blood transfusion, an Omelas child who’s potentially being exploited to power that, the discovery that someone else’s donation was tainted and …
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Movie #37 of 2026: Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End (2007) I saw this movie on opening night, came home, and proceeded to write over a thousand words in my livejournal complaining about its various plot holes. (Don’t worry, I’ll spare you this time.) I’m slightly more sympathetic to the thing on today’s rewatch, …
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Book #122 of 2026: The World’s Greatest Detective and Her Just Okay Assistant by Liza Tully (Merritt & Blunt Mysteries #1) A pretty straightforward mystery story, in which a consulting detective in the Holmes / Poirot fashion is hired to investigate the death of a woman’s mother that the police have ruled a suicide. The …
Book #121 of 2026: Star Wars: Eyes Like Stars by Ashley Poston I swore off author Ashley Poston after not really caring for either Heart of Iron or Among the Beasts & Briars, but Star Wars lured me back with a new line of tie-in novels that Lucasfilm Publishing has described as offering “genre stories …
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Book #120 of 2026: Prince Caspian by C. S. Lewis (The Chronicles of Narnia #4) [Note: this is an updated version of my review from 2020.] Although perhaps not as enchanting as the original Narnia story, this first sequel (in writing / publication order) does much more to flesh out the worldbuilding, providing a sense …
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Book #119 of 2026: Terrestrial History by Joe Mungo Reed I expected to like this literary science-fiction novel far more than I have, but in the end I think it delivers both too wide a scope and too slow of a plot, which blocks me from investing in either the characters or the events happening …
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TV #35 of 2026: Doctor Who: Scream of the Shalka, season 1 Doctor Who’s so-called wilderness years of 1989-2005 saw a wide range of possible story continuations both on and off the screen, some more official (either contemporarily or in hindsight) than others. This six-part webcast falls directly in the middle of that continuum — …
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