The Satsuma Complex
Review Humor

The Satsuma Complex

After enjoying Bob Mortimer’s The Long Shoe, I later picked up The Satsuma Complex and ended up listening straight through into its follow-up, The Hotel Avocado, without a pause between the two… or (as I realised later) stopping to write […]

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Blind Greed From Ivy League to International Fugitive
Review Memoir

Blind Greed

They say crime doesn’t pay. In Lawrence Hartman’s case, it paid very well for a while, until the authorities caught up. Hartman narrates his own story from being accepted into Columbia Law School, then through a whirlwind of shady business

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Invisible Monsters
Review Satire

Invisible Monsters

Invisible Monsters doesn’t ease you into its world. It drops you mid-collapse, then keeps rearranging the pieces just as you start to get your footing. The result is a deliberately disjointed listening experience, one that mirrors the book’s obsession with

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Nearly Departed
Review Contemporary

Nearly Departed

Some stories announce their premise loudly; Nearly Departed does the opposite. It opens with death, yes, but what follows is a quiet, melancholy exploration of what it means to keep living once the worst has already happened. This isn’t a

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Spaced Out A Small Town Sci Fi Comedy Adventure
Review Science Fiction

Spaced Out

Spaced Out opens with the kind of disorientation that feels unsettling without ever tipping into panic. Elen is twenty-six, lives in a small town in Washington State, and already considers herself a bit scattered thanks to her ADHD. Waking up

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Goyhood A Novel
Review Humor

Goyhood

Goyhood starts with a small lie told early in childhood and follows the long, unexpected mess it creates years later. What begins as a story about faith and identity slowly turns into an awkward, often funny American road trip between

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[1] The Hidden Kingdom Legends from Qiledara, Book
Review Fantasy

The Hidden Kingdom

The Hidden Kingdom steps straight into familiar fantasy territory with rival princes, a volatile king, backstabbing advisors, old laws rubbing up against ambition, and a kingdom that feels like it’s been waiting a long time for things to go wrong.

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