Month: February 2026
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Book Review: Havana Syndrome by Robert W. Baloh & Robert E. Bartholomew
The Havana Syndrome incident has fascinated me, although I don’t claim to be an expert on what happened. I’d hoped this book would further inform me on the subject, but it felt far too dismissive…
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Book Review: Night of the Assassins by Howard Blum
A couple of years ago, I read Brad Meltzer’s book The Nazi Conspiracy, which also explores this topic. I must have purchased this book shortly after reading that and I was reminded of it when scrolling through my audiobook library. As much as I enjoyed that book, I felt that this one delved much deeper, granted,…
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Book Review: The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
This is a book that has been on my TBR for over a decade. Now that it’s in the public domain, it seemed like a fun time to finally pick it up (even though I do own a copy)…
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Book Review: The Frog Knight by E.B. Roshan
I always enjoy reading E.B. Roshan’s comics, but seeing that this story is a retelling of The Frog Prince, I was even more excited than usual!…
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Book Review: Alcatraz: The Last Escape by Ken Widner and Mike Lynch
For years, I’ve been fascinated by both Alcatraz as an institution as well as the famous escape. Although this book focuses far more on the escape, I was pleasantly surprised by the amount of history about the jail and some of the better-known inmates included as well…
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Book Review: The Lost Colony and Hatteras Island by Scott Davis Dawson
I’ve become moderately interested in the Lost Colony of Roanoke in the past year and found a couple of audiobooks on the subject. I haven’t looked deeply beyond that format, but I was surprised that not much was coming up on Audible. I was excited to dive into this one, but I was disappointed to…
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Book Review: The Ingenue by Rachel Kapelke-Dale
I bought this book years ago but I couldn’t remember why I was drawn to it, so I went in blindly. I don’t think I would have picked this up had I taken a deeper look into the content. Alas, it held my attention to finish it…
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Book Review: Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman
This book is unlike anything I’ve ever read before. Because of this, I was kind of nervous going into it, but since I was reading it with a book club, I figured it would be a good opportunity to read outside of my comfort zone…