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Not necessarily recently written. I read a lot of old books. Also, I read a lot of comix.

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Recent Reads@recentreads.bsky.social · 2d ago

Angels & Demons By Dan Brown Our favorite symbologist is drawn into a nefarious scheme involving physicists who have created a dangerous quantity of antimatter, the Illuminati, and the Vatican. The plot moves along too fast for your suspension of disbelief to run out before the end. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ #booksky

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Recent Reads@recentreads.bsky.social · 4d ago

Getting Off By Lawrence Block An abused girl enters adulthood and searches for a meaningful relationship, while killing almost every man she has sex with. Then she decides she has to find the men she had sex with, but didn't kill, and kill them, too. So it's a serial killer detective story. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Hardcover book with a dustjacket cover illustration painting. A nude woman, with tousled blonde hair, faces away from us, her left arm up with her hand on the back of her neck. Her right hand is behind her, in the small of her back, holding a large kitchen knife with the blade straight down, covering the cleft of her buttocks. She is looking into a room where a nude black-haired woman kneels on a bed, her arms wrapped around a man in front of her, sitting on the edge of the bed, as she helps him take off his shirt. He is wearing black trousers and one of his shoes and a sock are on the floor in front of him.
Matt Ortega@mattortega.com · last wk.

Stephen Miller said just the other day that all asylum claims are "fake." A couple deported from the U.S. to Guatemala were gagged, bound, and shot dead. Their 14-month old found crying next to their mother's body. People like Miller don't care though because this is the point: ethnic cleansing.

Overland couple shot dead in Guatemala after local ICE stop led to deportations

The couple’s 14-month-old daughter was found crying beside her mother’s body in a sugarcane field last week, according to Guatemalan authorities and media.

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Recent Reads@recentreads.bsky.social · last wk.

The Punisher: Brain Bleed W: Benjamin Percy A: Julius Ohta Frank Castle is being mind-controlled by a certain criminal mastermind. Or is he? Prepare for some ultra-violence and mayhem as the Punisher gets to work. Nicely written, with art that fits the subject matter quite well. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ #comicbook

A comic book trade paperback, with The Punisher, a.k.a. Frank Castle, a large, muscular man with black hair and dark beard stubble, featured large on the cover. He is wearing his trademark black t-shirt with his skull logo on the chest. He is firing a machine pistol with his left hand, aimed off to his left, with spent shell casings cas adding down, and is holding a tactical shotgun in his right.Bild
Recent Reads@recentreads.bsky.social · 2w ago

The Flash, Vol. 4: Reverse (See photos for complete credits.) Collects #20–25 & 23.2. I found the story implausible. The internal logic just didn't work for me. The art was okay, but occasionally seemed too busy and confusing. I guess I would have loved it when I was 12. ⭐⭐⭐ #theflash #comicbook

Hardcover comic book collection, with a dustjacket cover illustration showing the Flash in the middle distance running towards the viewer. The background is the same bright red as his costume, and a thick yellow bolt of lightning is flashing diagonally across the sky and ending in a burst behind the Flash, silhouetting him. The horizon line is slightly at an angle and the foreground is the same bright yellow as the lightning bolt. What looks like a black shadow from the Flash is stretched out across the foreground towards the viewer.Bild
Recent Reads@recentreads.bsky.social · 3w ago

Sanctuary By Lynn Abbey A full-length novel set in the fantasy shared world of "Thieve's World." If you've read the early collections of short stories, you will find some familiar characters herein, as well as new ones. Political intrigue, sorcery, swordplay; enjoy! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ #fantasy #thievesworld

A hardcover book with a cover illustration painting. In the foreground stands a large, muscular man, beardless and with short hair, wearing a jerkin open to the waist, and holding a long hand-and-a-half sword in his right hand. Behind him.to. To the right sits an older bearded man, wearing a black robe, and holding a thick black staff. Behind him stands a young teenaged boy. They are surrounded by ruined buildings and tumbled-down blocks of stone.
Recent Reads@recentreads.bsky.social · 3w ago

The Complete[d] Saucer Country W: Paul Cornell A: Ryan Kelly A massive collection (see photos for contents) of this clever sci-fi tale. Are extraterrestrials visiting Earth, with nefarious purpose? The author will keep you guessing, right up to the very satisfying finale. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ #sciencefiction

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Recent Reads@recentreads.bsky.social · 4w ago

Escape, Vol. 1 W: Rick Remender A: Daniel Acuña Collects issues #1–6. An anthropomorphic war story, in which a bomber pilot struggles to complete his mission after being shot down, with flashbacks to his backstory. Engrossing tale, great art. But why pick on bats, Rick? Why not hornets? ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

A comic book trade paperback with a cover illustration centered on a humanoid figure with a doglike head, carrying a large firearm in his right hand, splashing through a puddle amidst the rubble of a bombed city, flames flickering around him.
Recent Reads@recentreads.bsky.social · 4w ago

You Can't Get Much Closer Than This Combat With Company H, 317th Infantry Regiment, 80th Division By A.Z. Adkins, Jr. & Andrew Z. Adkins, III A memoir of the author's experiences commanding a mortar squad in the invasion of Europe and Germany in WWII. (Cont...) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ #WWII #memoir #booksky #war

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