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  • March 5, 2025
  • June 5, 2025
  • Chris
  • Productivity, Reading

I’m in book-highlighting heaven with Clippings.io

I’m in book-highlighting heaven with Clippings.io As a voracious reader of ebooks, I’ve found immense value in highlighting passages of interest when I’m reading. Highlighting passages allows me to collect […]

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3d rendering of Extracted novel
  • February 1, 2024
  • February 1, 2024
  • Chris
  • Reading

Extracted by – R R Haywood

Review contains minor spoilers. I’ve got to admit, to me the premise of Extracted sounded both high-concept and cheesy at the same time. Three people; a world war two commando, […]

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3d render of Maniac Menagerie novel
  • January 24, 2024
  • January 24, 2024
  • Chris
  • Reading

Maniac Menagerie – by Ian Robb Wright

I’ve been reading Ian Robb Wright since around 2015 when I downloaded a copy of Seasick for free from Amazon. I really enjoyed that one and went on to read […]

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3d rendering of 10% happier book
  • January 12, 2024
  • January 11, 2024
  • Chris
  • Reading

10% Happier – By Dan Harris

I purchased 10% Happier 8 years ago. It’s been sitting in my Kindle collection all this time. But as part of 2024’s drive to finish books I’ve started, I delved […]

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3d rendering of Deep Country book
  • January 3, 2024
  • January 2, 2024
  • Chris
  • Reading

Deep Country: Five Years In The Welsh Hills – by Neil Ansell

Deep Country started off really well and I loved hearing about the set up of the cottage and the whole premise of living a simple, solitary life in the Welsh […]

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  • December 27, 2023
  • April 12, 2025
  • Chris
  • Reading

I don’t want the multiverse. All I want is a home, books, and the peace to read them.

from Elsewhere by Dean Koontz

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3d rendering of Elsewhere novel
  • December 21, 2023
  • January 2, 2024
  • Chris
  • Reading

Elsewhere – by Dean Koontz

Amity, an 11 year-old girl and her father Jeffy live in Suavidad Beach, California. Michelle, Amity’s mother walked out on them 7 years ago and never returned. Whilst the father-daughter […]

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Finding Hildasay book cover
  • December 5, 2023
  • January 2, 2024
  • Chris
  • Reading

Finding Hildasay – by Christian Lewis

I love a bit of armchair travel, and after reading an article about ex-paratrooper Chris Lewis and his walk around the UK, I was intrigued to find out more. In […]

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  • November 15, 2023
  • January 2, 2024
  • Chris
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The Scarlet Gospels – By Clive Barker

I just abandoned The Scarlet Gospels by Clive Barker. Minor spoilers. I enjoyed the Hellraiser movies in my late teens. The first one was okay, but it was Hellraiser 2: […]

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  • November 14, 2023
  • November 14, 2023
  • Chris
  • Reading

Two New Features I Need for My Kindle

I’ve been using an e-reader for over a decade now, and using an actual Kindle for around 7 of those years. In that time, my book collection has grown a […]

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3d rendering of The Halloween Man novel
  • November 8, 2023
  • January 2, 2024
  • Chris
  • Reading

The Halloween Man – by Douglas Clegg

My first time reading Douglas Clegg. Initially drawing me in with a child being rescued/kidnapped from a cult, the story soon became laborious in its use of extended flashbacks to […]

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Dean Koontz The Taking Book cover
  • June 14, 2023
  • January 2, 2024
  • Chris
  • Reading

The Taking – by Dean Koontz

I just finished The Taking by Dean Koontz. I first read Koontz nearly a decade ago with Phantoms. I’ve since read a handful after picking up quite a good chunk […]

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  • June 15, 2022
  • December 28, 2022
  • Chris
  • Reading

Catching Up on Reading

I used to have so much time to read. One year I read a total of 63 books (but I wish I’d had the note-taking habit back then that I […]

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Book cover of Agents of Dreamland by Caitlin R. Kiernan
  • December 16, 2019
  • January 2, 2024
  • Chris
  • Reading

Agents of Dreamland – by Caitlin R. Kiernan

NASA have lost contact with their New Horizons satellite somewhere near Pluto. A government agent is tasked with investigating a deeply disturbing massacre at the home of a doomsday cult. […]

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The Stranger in the Woods Book Cover
  • December 4, 2019
  • January 2, 2024
  • Chris
  • Reading

The Stranger in the Woods – by Michael Finkel

Once I picked up The Stranger in the Woods, I just couldn’t put it down. The true life tale of Christopher Knight, I man who went into the Maine woods […]

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The Silversmith by Jeff Carson
  • October 29, 2019
  • January 2, 2024
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The Silversmith (David Wolf Book 2) – by Jeff Carson

Police deputy David Wolf has returned home to Colorado. But not only is he returning with the body of his dead brother, the Sheriff’s job he’s coveted for so long […]

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Apartment 16 book cover
  • October 25, 2019
  • January 2, 2024
  • Chris
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Apartment 16 – by Adam Nevill

Apartment 16 in the posh London Barrington House has been vacant for over 50 years, but the sounds from within suggest otherwise. When Apryl inherits her late, great aunt’s apartment […]

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3d rendering of Foreign Deceit novel
  • September 16, 2019
  • January 2, 2024
  • Chris
  • Reading

Foreign Deceit (David Wolf Book 1) – by Jeff Carson

In the week preceding a potential promotion, Colorado deputy sergeant David Wolf is informed of his brother’s apparent suicide in his apartment in Italy. With tension rising between him and […]

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The Stillwater Girls by Minka Kent
  • August 31, 2019
  • January 2, 2024
  • Chris
  • Reading

The Stillwater Girls – by Minka Kent

Two sisters raised in a primitive log cabin to protect them from the madness of the outside world await the return of their mother who left two months ago with […]

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  • August 28, 2019
  • January 2, 2024
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The Age of Miracles – Karen Thompson Walker

Julia, a young Californian girl is approaching her 12th birthday when the world’s rotation begins to slow. With days and nights growing longer and longer this becomes known as The […]

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