Brandon
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"That's just regular old living."
I might nerd out about music, books, movies, maybe a little paleontology; nothing to get excited about.
I might nerd out about music, books, movies, maybe a little paleontology; nothing to get excited about.
Book #13 for 2025 finds me going way back to the 1930s and filling a gap in my C.S. Lewis knowledge, finally reading The Pilgrim's Regress. Liked it a lot.
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Brandon Sparks's review of The Pilgrim's Regress
4/5: I've been meaning to get around to this for a long time - it's actually my first Lewis since literal grade school. I enjoyed it quite a bit, although I found it a bit uneven and definitely dated ...
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December 8, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Book #13 for 2025 finds me going way back to the 1930s and filling a gap in my C.S. Lewis knowledge, finally reading The Pilgrim's Regress. Liked it a lot.
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Made it to book #12 for the year. I liked A History Of What Comes Next, despite a couple of sticking points, and thought it did pretty good justice to a really intriguing premise.
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Brandon Sparks's review of A History of What Comes Next (Take Them to the Stars, #1)
3/5: This was really interesting in concept, and pretty enjoyable in execution. I liked the premise a lot - a alternate/secret history that proposes that the early days of the space race was secretly ...
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November 22, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Made it to book #12 for the year. I liked A History Of What Comes Next, despite a couple of sticking points, and thought it did pretty good justice to a really intriguing premise.
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Book #11 for the year is Gideon The Ninth. I was excited for this and I ended up enjoying it, but not without some reservations.
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Brandon Sparks's review of Gideon the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #1)
3/5: In many ways, this is a definite breath of fresh air, and it's not hard to see why it ended up with so much hype and fanfare upon release. I did enjoy a lot about it, especially Muir's heavily sa...
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November 7, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Book #11 for the year is Gideon The Ninth. I was excited for this and I ended up enjoying it, but not without some reservations.
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And here's book #10 - Hammers On Bone was really heavy on the creepy noir vibes but I think it caught me at the wrong time; couldn't quite get on its wavelength.
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Brandon Sparks's review of Hammers on Bone (Persons Non Grata, #1)
2/5: The description of this sounded interesting enough, but unfortunately I never managed to get on its wavelength. The combination of noir-style crime fiction and cosmic (very specifically Lovecraft...
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October 4, 2025 at 11:42 PM
And here's book #10 - Hammers On Bone was really heavy on the creepy noir vibes but I think it caught me at the wrong time; couldn't quite get on its wavelength.
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Made it book #9 of 2025 - absolutely tore through The Cabin At The End Of The World. It's another winner for Tremblay.
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Brandon Sparks's review of The Cabin at the End of the World
4/5: This impressed me a lot, in particular as an extended exercise in almost unbearable tension. Tremblay brings his considerable skills to bear here in creating a diabolically simple yet effective s...
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September 30, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Made it book #9 of 2025 - absolutely tore through The Cabin At The End Of The World. It's another winner for Tremblay.
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Finished book #8 for the year: Billy Summers was another win for recent Stephen King. This felt like a bit of a departure with some surprising twists, and it worked really well for me.
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Brandon Sparks's review of Billy Summers
4/5: At this point, saying that I enjoyed a Stephen King book is stating something very obvious; it bears emphasizing how consistent his recent works have been, though. This one is no exception. I fel...
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September 18, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Finished book #8 for the year: Billy Summers was another win for recent Stephen King. This felt like a bit of a departure with some surprising twists, and it worked really well for me.
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relatedly, severely curb youth travel sports so more kids play on their school team with their schoolmates and just for fun
September 12, 2025 at 5:08 PM
relatedly, severely curb youth travel sports so more kids play on their school team with their schoolmates and just for fun
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Guy who shrieked about tyranny when they closed Applebees during a pandemic: Mr President sir I saw a homeless man downtown today please send in the 82nd Airborne
September 2, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Guy who shrieked about tyranny when they closed Applebees during a pandemic: Mr President sir I saw a homeless man downtown today please send in the 82nd Airborne
Gotta love how well the language used in long-term nuclear waste warning messages fits into a social media use case too: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-te...
Long-term nuclear waste warning messages - Wikipedia
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September 2, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Gotta love how well the language used in long-term nuclear waste warning messages fits into a social media use case too: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-te...