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The Well at World's End by William Morris

Sometimes, I read books so you don’t have to. The Well at World’s End really is a seminal work, but it is also a slog of a book that I wouldn’t recommend to someone reading for fun. But it is a fascinating story, and the prototype of

First four St. Tommy, N.Y.P.D. books on sale

Declan Finn’s St. Tommy, N.Y.P.D. series has one of the best portraits of a genuinely holy man I have seen in fiction. In my review of Hell Spawn I said: This book made me want to go to confession. Tommy Nolan lives in a world where

Linkfest 2022-05-20: The La Sierra System

Art of Manliness: The Insanely difficult standards of history’s hardest PE program A fascinating read on the La Sierra System, an ultra-competitive PE program that produced the kind of fitness you find in elite operators. I don’t think you could just duplicate this everywhere and get the same

Last Contact: Galaxy's Edge Book 15

Last Contact is where everything in Season Two of Galaxy’s Edge comes together. There is something here for just about every flavor of fan I’ve seen so far, and you can see the pieces being setup for a real banger in the next book. In Remains, we got

Darkness and Stone: The Lost Book 3

Darkness and Stone wraps up Peter Nealen’s WarGate series The Lost nicely. You get a cataclysmic final confrontation, endless chthonic horrors, and the phrase, “you mean you just guilt-tripped him to death?” One of my favorite things about this series is that Nealen manages to give the impression that

Linkfest 2022-04-29: The Well at the World's End

John D. Cook points out the inherent tradeoff between predictive accuracy and serving as a public authority. This never stops being funny to me. Isegoria: The Well at the World’s End Friend of the blog Isegoria points us to William Morris’ forgotten work The Well at the World’s

Audible Annual Series Sale

I see that Audible has some titles I recommend on sale. You can sometimes get good deals on audiobooks by buying a ebook on sale and then using Whispersync, but in this case the audiobook is directly on sale. Amazon links do benefit me if you buy something, but I