Tagged: books

It's September. We've got a lot of mysteries this month. Of the top three, two are set in the UK and the other in Wisconsin. Just about 200 miles away from me being able to say "2 in the UK, one in the UP". Here goes...

It's August, and we've got the meta-ist of all meta-mysteries, we've got borders that split you in twain, and we've got Ana and Din down on the (creepy and gigantic) farm. Here goes...

It's July and there are still books. Good month this month, we've got Maggie the Undying, we've got flying cats and talking plants, and yes, the the dragon has some complaints. Here goes...

It's the book of the month post for June 2026. This month we have pirates in the Persian Gulf, detectives working for Legally Not the OED, and kidnapped doctors trying to survive. Here goes...

It's the book round up for May, this month we've got a celebration of romantasy villans, Murderbot, and fandom around the world. Did I mention Murderbot? Here goes...

The book round up for April, 2026. This month we have an old-time lawyer turned detective, a show that is Legally Not Saturday Night Live, and the bloody history of Jewish Socialism. That's a big back and forth tone shift for one month. Here goes...

Continuing the monthly book posts, here's the March round-up. This month, Carl plays cards, we've got some good old fashioned space revenge, and President Garfield is shot by one man, but probably killed by his doctors. Here goes.

Continuing my plan of doing monthly book wrap-up posts, here's February 2026. This month featured a time-loop mystery, heroes in triplicate, and a murder mystery in a very dangerous family.

I've decided to XP the book posts by doing them more frequently and with shorter posts. Except for the shorter part. Starting up with January, 2026, a month that featured more _Dungeon Crawler Carl_, Dracula on a spaceship, and a woman who can talk to pots and pans.

Let's start a new series about a very timely topic -- programming books! We'll kick it off with a discussion of the classic Gang of Four _Design Patterns_.

The annual book post for 2025, in March instead of May! One exciting thing about this year's book wrap up, at least to me, is that I wrote mini-reviews all year, so these reviews should have a stronger tendency to sound like I actually read the book.