Blood, Sweat, and Pixels (2017) by Jason Schreier Genre: Non-fiction, videogames Pages: 278 Summary: Jason Schreier chronicles the stressful and many times chaotic path to creating a video game. Schreier documents 10 video games and the storytellers, producers, programmers, and digital artists who put blood and sweat into creating some of the most memorable and…
A Gentleman in Moscow (2016) by Amor Towles Genre: Fiction – Historical Pages: 462 Summary: Amor Towles’s novel A Gentleman in Moscow chronicles the life of the Count Alexander Ilyich Rostov. Due to unsavory writings that dissatisfied the Russian government in the early 1900s, Count Rostov is sullied away on house arrest at the Hotel…
The Ancient Hours (2020) by Michael Bible Genre: Fiction Pages: 102 Content warning: violence, domestic violence, drug addiction, sexual assault, discrimination, mass violence. Summary: At 102 pages, The Ancient Hours is a short but powerful tale. Harmony, North Carolina experienced a tragedy. This tragedy haunts the town, the people who lived there then and experienced…
The End of Everything – Astrophysically Speaking (2020) by Katie Mack Genre: Nonfiction – Science Pages: 226 Summary: Sometimes when I’m half awake in bed or when I’m zoning out driving, I start to ponder the universe. The thought process usually starts with the question, how did the Earth come to be? The Big Bang…
The Devil All the Time (2011) by Donald Ray Pollock – Fiction This post contains affiliate links. Rating: 3.5/5 Brutal. That’s the adjective that comes to mind when I set down to write about this book. It’s about brutal and hard characters. The majority of the innocent ones get hurt, and while the majority of…
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