Noob's Book Club

This has to be a record! Only one day after finishing up Project Hail Mary, I release Legends and Lattes Episode 1. This is my introduction to cozy fiction. So far, I am hooked! Strangely so. Who knew reading about the opening of a coffee shop could be so interesting and entertaining? But, the author […]

Andy Weir takes this ship and lands it in the most satisfying way. Is it perfect? By no means. However, it hits just that right spot that I need right now. Things are so dismal in the world. Reading The Burning God and watching Grave of the Fireflies was probably a bad idea because they […]

Friendship is Magic. If you asked me to summarize Project Hail Mary Episode 2 in one phrase, that is it. Grace and Rocky learn about each other, build a partnership in spite of their differences, and end up solving the problem of Astrophage. Now, because there are 11 chapters left in the book, they again […]

As promised in the last episode, I’m taking a break from The Burning God with Project Hail Mary Episode 1. Because the movie releases soon, I wanted to tie that in to the podcast and maybe increase engagement. We will see if it works. This episode covers chapters 1-8 of the book. Crazy lot of […]

After this one, I’m taking a bit of a break from the book. It’s just all so much, espeically with everything going on in the country right now. So, over the next month or so, I will read Project Hail Mary and do the Movie Vs. I think that might give me enough hope to […]

Right on schedule, for the most part, with The Burning God Episode 2. Being on February break and a snow day today helped, but I will celebrate every victory. Things again get grim for Rin in the book. I’m starting to wonder if maybe a trilogy was too long for this particular story. In some […]

Time to finally finish The Poppy War Trilogy. The Burning God Episode 1 covers a great deal of topics in the context of the book. After giving a summary from Super Summary, I frame my discussion around six quotes that I’ve made at various points in my life. Those quotes involve the nature of fascism, […]

We leave the series for now with Dune Episode 4. From what I’ve read, this is where the first movie ends. Therefore, I will be back this weekend with a Movie Vs. episode. Like I say in the episode, it’s been a while since we’ve done one of those. Never actually got one done for […]

Finally able to sit down and record Dune Episode 3. We are finally through the strategizing part of the chess match and into the attack. What we all knew was bound to happen finally happens. Although, I must say, it happens in a way that surprised me a little bit. What do we always say […]

The chess match continues in Dune Episode 2. We get the opening gambit in the form of a betrayal. I will leave it at that for now. Not usually one to care about spoilers, but I will preserve this 50 year old book and 5 year old movie for you. Listen to the episode to […]

Got back into a cycle of non updates that went on for far too long. However, I still have time to save Dune for this month and next before moving on to some new books in the new year. Dune Episode 1 covers chapters 1-7. This is the opener for the chess match between the […]

After far too long, we finish up this series with The Dragon Republic Eipsode 6. This book dealt with some heavy things. I had the next book in the series on the schedule for this month, but I need a bit of a pallette cleanser before moving on. So, I’m reading Legends and Lattes instead. […]