Category: Books

  • Poirot Adventures: The Underdog

    Poirot Adventures: The Underdog

    Two hours of reading? That’s far and away the longest short in the collection. Interesting… Businessman Sir Reuben has been murdered, and it’s up to Poirot to find the killer. The suspects: the members of his staff and family. But who? It’s far from a straight-forward case. Papa Poirot will have to put all his…

  • The Name of the Wind: Beginning of a Legend

    This one has been sitting on my reading list for a while now. Did I know anything about it? Beyond the title: not a thing. But it seemed pretty popular, so I decided to give it a go… eventually. And now, one book read later, here we are. Did I find another gem? Or did…

  • Poirot Adventures: The Lemesurier Inheritance

    Poirot Adventures: The Lemesurier Inheritance

    Welcome back, Papa Poirot. What thrilling mysteries have you got for us today? A supposed curse has claimed the lives of several members of the Lemesurier family. The next suspected victims: two young boys set to claim the family’s inheritance. Poirot has his doubts about the curse, but he still suspects danger. Can our Hastings…

  • The Call of Cthulhu: Gods Beneath the Tide

    I had pretty high expectations going into this one. Most bits of Lovecraft I’ve seen before reading his work, from board games to TTRPGs to stories penned by other authors, have used this story’s title. Surely this has to be one of Lovecraft’s best, right? Let’s find out. Let’s answer the Call of Cthulhu together.…

  • Metro 2034: Finding Beauty in a World Without

    Y’all ready for more happy-go-lucky adventures in the Metro? Boy, I sure do love Russian literature! It’s always so upbeat and uplifting! Ha ha ha… Fuck me, here we go again. Though I struggled to get through it my first time through, by the time I finally finished it, Metro 2033 became one of my…