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Jeff VanderMeer – Southern Reach 02- Authority – 2026 Re-read

After thirty years, the only human engagement with Area X—a seemingly malevolent landscape surrounded by an invisible border and mysteriously wiped clean of all signs of civilization—has been a series of expeditions overseen by a government agency so secret it has almost been forgotten: the Southern Reach. Following the tumultuous twelfth expedition chronicled in Annihilation,…

Jeffery Archer – Eleventh Commandment

CIA Chief Helen Dexter independently decides to order the assassination of political figures from other nations based on their views toward the United States. The book begins with the assassination of a Colombian presidential candidate. During this time, Helen discovers that she would be fired if it is discovered that she is ordering assassinations in…

The Names – by Florence Knapp

As a mother, there is nothing more time-consuming in figuring out what to name the little human that we’re raising. Names are important as explained so thoroughly in The Name of The Wind by Patrick Rothfuss. Name give meaning to things and names sometimes, just sometimes, control someone’s fate. Cora has a choice to make…

Beautiful Romania

These pictures were taken in Săpânța (Romania) a village known for their very colorful tombstones. With only 3k inhabitants, the locals make their money selling beaded bracelets to tourists and different knick-knacks. Worth a visit! The name Zapancha (today’s Săpânța) was mentioned for the first time in the year 1373 in direct connection with a…

The Unturned Stone by Sonia Orin Lyris

Dreams were unreliable portents, often like drunk, dancing clowns: more interested in getting a rise out of the audience than saying anything of substance. Sanne lived in a one-room house, in the small town of Marigold, USA, tutoring kids, and running occasional wildcrafting classes for eager wealthy suburbanites who were afraid they’d die if they…

Pandemic – Scott Sigler – Triangles #3

Man, I love his books. I want them made as movies. I want series drilling down on the sci-fi of it. I want more! Unfortunately, after 600 odd pages, the saga comes to an end. The Orbital had watched. The Orbital had learned.Its first infection vector had been rather simple in concept: spores that floated…

A million Junes – Emily Henry

This book was a very beautifully written love story from a girl to her daddy. A man who was gone before his time but he left her with a lot of love and a legacy of magic in the land they owned. At the sound of my name, whole forests grow from saplings into moonlit…

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