Worst Person Ever - Douglas Coupland

Vintage Canada, 2014, 317 pages

Original copyright 2013 

ISBN: 978-0-345-81374-9 

Read: August 2025, age 47

 

I've been reading basically every Douglas Coupland book I've found since i read Microserfs, which turned out to be one of my favourite books.  I keep reading them hoping to recapture that, even a little, and I keep being disappointed.  I enjoyed the prose in this book, but the characters and plot were basically just a waste of time, and I bounced off of the humour.   

 

Rating: 2 

Alpha 8 - Robert Silverberg

Berkley Medallion, 1977, 242 pages

Individual stories copyright 1950 to 1973 

ISBN: 0-425-03561-1 

Read: August 2025, age 47 

 

I cracked open the book and discovered that it was short stories.  I really should have known from the cover.  They were good short stories, in general, but that's not really my favourite medium.  

 

Rating: 3 

Four to Score - Janet Evanovich

St. Martins, 1998, 313 pages 

Read: August 2025, age 47 

ISBN: 978-0-312-96697-3 

 

Stephanie Plum, book 4 

 

Just a fun book.  Colourful characters, an okay mystery, and a fun, fast read. Nothing too deep, and no real character development, but that should be expected by now.

 

Rating: 3+ 

Hunting Fiends for the Ill-Equipped - Annette Marie (Audiobook)

Tantor Audio, 2020, 8.5 hours 

Read by: Cris Dukeheart

Listened to: June 2025, age 47

 

Guild Codex - Demonized, book 3 

 

Lots of fun, and the slow-burn romance is starting to pay off.  There hasn't really been a miss in this series yet.

 

Rating: 4 

Villain's Vignettes - Drew Hayes (Audiobook)

Tantor Audio, 2023, 9.5 hours

Read by : Amy Landon

Listened to:  May 2025, age 47 

 

Villain's Code, book 2.5 

 

Unnecessary, and not my favourite kind of stories.  This was a collection of novellas and short stories, and there really wasn't much meat to them, especially since things basically needed to end right where they started in order to not mess up book 3.  

 

Not as good as I'd hoped.  

 

Rating: 3- 

Silence Fallen - Patricia Briggs (Audiobook)

Penguin Audio, 2017, 11.2 hours

Read by: Lorelei King & George Newbern 

Listened to:  May 2025, age 47

 

Mercy Thompson, book 10 

 

I liked this one a bit better than the last time that I read it.  My complaints of it being a reason to justify a trip to Prague as a work expense still stand, but the story was all right.

 

Rating: 4 

Band of Brothers - Steven Ambrose

Simon & Schuster, 2001, 336 pages 

ISBN: 9780743464116 

Read: May 2025, age 47

 

It was an interesting book, with interesting things happening, but filled with names and promotions and wounds to people that I didn't know and didn't care about, who popped into and out of the story all along the way.  

 

I think that the main people who would care about all the individual details were there, and this book didn't really help you know the people or their experiences.  

 

It was okay, and I'm happy that I read it - it was a nice, relatively focused window on the war in Europe from D-Day on, but the narrative was weak.

 

Rating: 3