Michael Pogach
Pogach Reviews: The Midnight Line (Jack Reacher #22)
Twenty million soldiers and civilians were killed during the First World War. Another twenty million were wounded. Among the wounded were...
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Michael Pogach
- Jan 8, 2021
- 2 min
Pogach Reviews: The Mere Wife, by Maria Dahvana Headley
Studies indicate that 20% of Iraq and Afghanistan vets suffer from PTSD. In addition, vets account for roughly 20% of all suicides in the...
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Michael Pogach
- Nov 27, 2020
- 2 min
Pogach Reviews: Circe, by Madeline Miller
In Ancient Greece, when a village or city was beset by plague or drought or other great ill, often the citizenry would ritually sacrifice...
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Michael Pogach
- Nov 10, 2020
- 1 min
Pogach Reviews: The Road, by Cormac McCarthy
If you walked ten hours a day, it would take you about 100 days to walk from New York City to San Francisco. At 19,000 miles, the...
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Michael Pogach
- Oct 31, 2020
- 2 min
Pogach Reviews: Knots and Crosses, by Ian Rankin
On October 1, 1788, Deacon Brodie was hanged at the Old Tolbooth in Edinburgh, Scotland, on a gallows he himself designed and built....
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Michael Pogach
- Oct 21, 2020
- 2 min
Pogach Reviews: The Last Oracle (Sigma Force 5), by James Rollins
In 393 CE, Emperor Theodosius the Great—the one who made Nicene Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire—banned the pagan...
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Michael Pogach
- Sep 30, 2020
- 2 min
Pogach Reviews: Recursion, by Blake Crouch
About seven years ago, a team of MIT scientists put a mouse in a box. The mouse immediately panicked, thinking it was about to get an...
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Michael Pogach
- Sep 22, 2020
- 2 min
Pogach Reviews: Station Eleven, by Emily St. John Mandel
It’s possible it’s all my fault. This. 2020. The whole mess. You see, in the spring of 2019, I re-read The Stand, by Stephen King, and...
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Michael Pogach
- Sep 15, 2020
- 2 min
Pogach Reviews: Scourged, by Kevin Hearne (Iron Druid Chronicles 9)
They say if you’re an author, don’t read the reviews of your books. Every author, including myself, ignores that piece of advice, and...
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Michael Pogach
- Aug 25, 2020
- 3 min
Pogach Reviews: The Other Mrs. Miller, by Allison Dickson
In the summer of 1556, a man strolled into the village of Artigat in southern France claiming to be Martin Guerre, who had left town,...
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Michael Pogach
- Aug 17, 2020
- 2 min
Pogach Reviews: Night School, by Lee Child
Jack Reacher novels are like pizza. Even when they’re soggy, or mass produced, or too thin, or too thick, or just plain bad, they’re...
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Michael Pogach
- Aug 5, 2020
- 2 min
Pogach Reviews: Fight Club, by Chuck Palahniuk
The first rule of Fight Club, yada yada yada. We all know how it goes. Which is not to say it isn’t worth reading. Fight Club, by Chuck...
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Michael Pogach
- Jul 29, 2020
- 1 min
Pogach Reviews: Best Served Cold, by Joe Abercrombie
Best Served Cold, by Joe Abercrombie, is what happens when The Princess Bride gets drunk on Jack Daniel’s and goes out at 3AM looking to...
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Michael Pogach
- Jul 7, 2020
- 2 min
Pogach Reviews: Raven's Sphere, by Melissa Koberlein
In Raven’s Sphere, by Melissa Koberlein, teenage thief Raven is on the run from her past, as well as the authorities. To get away even...
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Michael Pogach
- Jul 1, 2020
- 2 min
Pogach Reviews: Essoterrorism, by CT Phipps (Red Room, Book 1)
“There are no good guys in the world of shadows … but maybe some bad men are better than others.” So goes the hook for Esoterrorism, by...
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Michael Pogach
- Jun 27, 2020
- 1 min
Pogach Reviews: Zoe's Tale, by John Scalzi (Old Man's War #4)
Zoe’s Tale, by John Scalzi, is the 4th book in the Old Man’s War series. It’s literally the same events that occur in The Last Colony,...
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Michael Pogach
- Jun 18, 2020
- 2 min
Pogach Reviews: Binti, by Nnedi Okorafor
The first Pogach Review where I talk about Binti, by Nnedi Okorafor
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