They Both Die at the End Adam Silvera HarperTeen, 2017 Geek Rating: Sun god worthy (4 out of 5 stars) “No matter how we choose to live, we both die at the end.” “What would you do if you found out you were about to die?” That was the question the author Adam Silvera apparently…

We take a look at four books this week from Rick Riordan’s third book in The Trials of Apollo series: The Burning Maze, to Julie Buxbaum’s What to Say Next, Colleen Hoover’s crazy story Without Merit, to comedian Steve Hofstetter’ personal essay Ginger Kid. The Burning Maze Rick Riordan, Disney-Hyperion 2018 Geek rate: Thief worthy (2 out of…

How to Stop Time Matt Haig Canongate, 2018 Geek Rating: Sun god worthy (4 out of 5 stars) “To cling to who I was, right at the beginning when I was just a small boy with a long name who responded to time and grew older like everybody else. But there is never a way…

Man’enGannen no Futtoboru Kenzaburō Ōe First Published: 1960  Geek Rating: Mortal worthy (3 out of 5 stars) “The things you believe you really saw — the memories you’ve been constantly raking over — were nothing more than dreams all the time.” First published in 1967, Kenzaburō Ōe’s Man’enGannen no Futtoboru (titled “The Silent Cry” in…

What Happened Hillary Rodham Clinton Simon and Schuster, 2017 Geek god rating: Sky god worthy (5 out of 5 stars) “Right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.” ― Martin Luther King Jr. We need to move on. We should already have done that like months ago. We should have done that on the night…

A Hologram for the King Dave Eggers Vintage Books, 2012 Geek Rating: Helios worthy (4 out of 5 stars) Eisenberg Rating: 1,100 out of 2,000 stars “What he had was a sense that few things mattered much. That few people are to be feared. And so he now faced all such situations with a sense…