Category: How’s This Book?

  • Poirot Adventures: The Lost Mine

    Poirot Adventures: The Lost Mine

    Wow. This one was boring! During a quiet evening in their flat, Hastings peruses the new stock options. This prompts Poirot to tell him of a case earlier in his career. A man with a large share of a profitable mine went missing, and the good Poirot was brought in to find him. This whole…

  • The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook For Surviving Medieval England is a Gem

    First Tress, now this. These Secret Projects have been amazing so far! The pure joy and passion you can feel in every word is infectious! In all honesty, I wasn’t particularly excited for this one. Don’t get me wrong, I didn’t expect it to be a bad book. But upon reading the title and the…

  • Poirot Adventures: The Case of the Missing Will

    Poirot Adventures: The Case of the Missing Will

    Well, you can’t win ’em all. Poirot has been offered an interesting challenge. After a disagreement between an uncle and his niece, he’s presented her a task to prove herself: to find his will and earn his fortune. Naturally, she turns to our favorite Belgian to solve the case. But when her uncle proves a…

  • The King in Yellow: Don’t Trust Yourself

    I had no idea what I was getting into with this one. A friend of mine just insisted that I really should read it. So here we are. Cheers, mate. The King in Yellow is a bizarre book. It’s a psychological horror that does lots of interesting things. However, in terms of actually reading it,…

  • Mort: Part-Time Reaper

    Death was always my favorite Discworld character. And behold! A whole book with him as one of the main characters. I knew this series was my thing! Farm-boy Mort is seeking a master to apprentice under. Problem is, only one figure is willing to take him: Death himself. Will Mort be able to keep up…