I have hypothyroidism. I had half of my thyroid removed in 2008, and I’ve been on medicine ever since. It turned out that I had a goiter, a benign tumor, and Hashimoto’s thyroiditis. Basically my immune system is trying to kill what’s left of my thyroid. Fun times!! My thyroid numbers have been considered normal for a while, but I still feel like hot garbage (literally hot, I’m generally the temperature of a menopausal woman, but I’m in my 30’s!) frequently. I thought I’d give […]
If Only the Truth were that this was a good book!
So… I read a short story by Adam Croft, and reviewed it here earlier in June. I read the short first to see if I liked the author’s writing. I guess at the time I thought it was ok, because I went on to read this book. I went back and read my review after finishing Only the Truth, and saw that I really didn’t like the short! At first I wasn’t really sure why I went ahead and read the book. Then I read […]
Who is the kind worth killing?
I listened to this as an audiobook, and once again the voice talent elevated the story. There were actually four separate actors that read this story. People kept dying, so two narrators had to be replaced ?. The story starts out with two people meeting at an airport bar in London. Their flight back to Boston was postponed, so they started drinking and talking. Ted, our main character is some sort of business guy that just found out his wife is cheating on him with […]
[Now with more dogs!] An Extinction Cycle short to hold us (me) over until Book 7 is released!
This is a short story to be read after Book six. Since I just finished book six, Amazon recommended this to me. I was deep in Extinction town at this point, so I downloaded it! It’s only five chapters and about eighty pages long, so it was a quick read. Don’t worry, it includes my favorite character (Apollo). Although he doesn’t get much to do, he does comfort Fitz, and the other soldiers. He comforted some kids that they rescued in Book six too. Basically […]