New Every Photo Tells Promo

I had the distinct privilege to create a promo for one of my favorite podcasts and websites, Every Photo Tells. Have a listen below and be sure to download it as well so you can put it in your podcast or a friend's podcast. Spread the word because Every Photo Tells is awesome! They've podcasts a few of my short stories and it's always been an amazing experience hearing them read my story. I highly recommend you give it a try! Listening to other people's stories is awesome as well! Loads of great stuff in lots of different genres! 

Also, here is their post about it.

The NEW Every Photo Tells Promo!

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Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk | Book Review

I've only ever heard great things about this book. I think it's cool that he wrote it on his lunch breaks, but for me, it was the same as the movie - I just didn't like it. I seem to be the minority on this one as everyone else seems to love it, but it just wasn't for me. It does some interesting things, and I can see how people find the twist cool and edgy and there's validity to the "that book is crazy" kind of comments, but I was just never engaged reading this book. I'm glad it was short or I wouldn't have finished it. I was often grossed out and baffled. I just didn't ever understand where the characters were coming from, and that's probably a big part of why this book didn't work for me. It is kind of a cool and original idea, but I'm not a fan. The whole book was kind of a long rambling essay about messed up stuff and ideologies that I completely disagree with. I've never really liked the mind trippy kind of stories though. A while back I read Alice in Wonderland because it's a classic and I like reading books I've heard about all my life. I hated that book. To me it was just a pointless ramble of random things. I didn't find it cool or trippy, just pointless. This book felt much more planned and purposeful in it's storytelling, but I was just not "getting it" - the whole time. If you liked the movie, which you probably did, you'll probably like the book. It just wasn't my cup of tea.

Have you read this book? Do you not "get" me and think it's an amazing novel? Sound off in the comments and tell me why, and thanks for stopping by!

The Accidental Time Machine by Joe Haldeman | Book Review

This book had some very interesting ideas in it, but it was boring. Maybe it's just that I'm not as into hard science fiction like this if it is indeed hard SF. There was a lot of scientific jargon in this book that some readers may find delightful, just not me. I think the main reason I almost didn't finish it is that I could care less what happened to the main character. Nothing about him made me interested in him, or made me like him. He's just kind of a loser who accidentally discovered a time machine. I'd still say give it a try if it sounds like a book you'd really enjoy, it just wasn't for me - but I've read worse books for sure. Haldeman's writing style was kind of vanilla, which can be good if it is meant to be that way to get out of the way and just give you the story - but in this case for me the story was kind of slow and boring. Once I did get into the last third or fourth of the book it was a fairly fun ride through time, and did become much more interesting. It might have worked better if the protag met the girl earlier in his journey - that was when I started to like it. That's about all I have to say for this book. I gave it 2/5 stars because on Goodreads when you hover over the 2nd star it says "it was ok." That's how I feel, it wasn't terrible, it was ok. Still it has some pretty cool ideas and might be an good read for the more scientifically minded reader.

Have you read this book? What did you think? Have you read any of Haldeman's other works? I've heard his novel The Forever War is good, and he's won tons of awards for his novels. I think sometime down the road I'll try another one of his books, but maybe one that's more well known. Thanks for stopping by!