by David Farland Million Dollar Outlines I have got to stop listening to self-help books on audio instead of reading them. So much of the advice given is lost on me as I try to keep up with the narration while folding socks or commuting or whatever and I struggle…
by Robyn Carr Mind Tryst I have read quite a few Robyn Carr books over the years and find her to be a consistently good author of contemporary romance. As often happens I discovered her in an Christmas romance anthology and liked her writing so much that I sought out…
by Dakota Krout Dungeon Calamity The second book in this series was the strongest. The first book suffered from excessive world-building but in the second one, the author found his footing and really got things moving. He built up great momentum and introduced a credible threat that challenged both the…
by Dakota Krout Dungeon Born Are you a 12-14 year old boy who loves sitting on Grandma’s old couch in Mom’s basement munching on Doritos, arguing about how to build the perfect dungeon? Have you ever thought, wow, this is so much fun, I should write a book about it?…
by Richard Neitzel Holzapfel, Andrew C. Skinner, Thomas A. Wayment What Da Vinci Didn’t Know: an LDS Perspective I read The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown against my better judgment and despite the advice from many intelligent people I respect. Honestly, if no one had told me how popular…
by Robert M. Sapolsky Stress and Your Body 5/15/2018 – I’m not done with this, yet, and there will be a complete review later, but I had to complain about something that really bugs me. This series of lectures is presented by a professor with multiple advanced degrees, including at…
Tarzan and the Tarzan Twins with Jad-bal-ja the Golden Lion The title is almost longer than the story, and a little more interesting, to be honest. I wasn’t a big fan of The Tarzan Twins so I didn’t have big hopes for the sequel, which turned out to be just…
The Tarzan Twins I’m about 90% sure I never read this one and I wasn’t missing much. This was written just a few years before the appearance of the first comic book sidekick, Robin the Boy Wonder, and it was probably meant to serve the same purpose. Sidekicks like Robin…
Tarzan and the Forbidden City An old friend returns and I was so excited to see him. If you’ve read the book that started all of this – and if you haven’t, why haven’t you – then you will recognize Lieutenant Paul d’Arnot as the brave Frenchman that Tarzan rescued…
Tarzan the Magnificent This felt oddly disjointed to me until I found out that it was originally published as two separate stories and then it all made sense. Well, maybe I wouldn’t go that far but at least I understood why it felt like two halves of a whole. The…
