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The Name of this Book is Secret is a great read. It is the first in the series. It’s a familiar blend of literary elements reminiscent OF Lemony Snicket’s Unfortunate Events and the Alcatraz versus the Evil Librarians series. It is a mystery-adventure that is out right hilarious; and it’s not afraid to make fun of itself or it’s genre.   The unknown narrator of the book is author Pseudonymous Bosch. A clear suspect emerges by the end of the story as to whom the author is meant to be. The narrator’s voice and personality remind me very much of Lemony Snicket. Bosch cautions his readers against going further, tries to get out of writing chapters and bemoans circumstances at every turn. Bosch is also very secretive, as evidenced by the book’s title.   The narrator also reminds me of Alcatraz (who is the really author of his book series, not that silly Brandon Sanderson who keeps claiming to have written the series). Like Alcatraz, Bosch is ver...

i am a little vine Lord just a small bit on the edge of the vineyard young, small but hoping my Lord, my gardner that your Spirit dwells in my core the fruit You see just budding now I know is Yours, not mine teach me Gardener remind me that it's not about me may the fruit You graciously allow me to produce be sweet though the time of pruning comes keep me attached your True Vine 1 John 15:1-2

Junior/Senior year of college.... I finally started dealing with the depression that was slowly crippling my life. I kind of had to. There was a weekend break my junior year when I just broke down. Turns out that was a major depressive episode I had been building up to.  I stayed in my room for three days, didn't do my homework for my J-term class and got out of bed only to use the restroom or get pizza out of my fridge. I only broke out of that episode because I had a shift to work in the kitchen. After I talked to my j-term professor about what happened, he was surprisingly understanding and allowed me an incomplete that I later turned into a D+. Hey-better than failing and it was a physical chemistry course on thermodynamics which I didn't like much (too much physics and I'm not a fan). Then I procrastinated two months to see a counselor on campus. A month after I started seeing her, she gave me a depression evaluation. I scored off the charts, but this time that ...

It was actually a couple of months ago that I had a neat opportunity to meet an exciting couple of writers. I mean couple literally a couple of writers. Diane and David Munson are a husband and wife team that write military/law enforcement/legal suspense books.  Confirming Justice is not the first in the series. I'm testing David's theory that one doesn't have to read them in order to enjoy them. There are several characters which show up in the first three books, and the fifth I believe, but each novel is a stand-alone story. So reading them out of order might disrupt the notion of growing with the characters that reappear. But I digress... Let me start at meeting Diane and David. A friend and I were meandering through the Tree of Life bookstore when I heard a gentleman approach my friend and talk to her about a book signing going on in the store. I was several rows away but I heard words like DEA, prosecutor, and undercover. I'll admit, I hadn't even heard the pi...