Michael PogachJan 15, 20212 minPogach 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...
Michael PogachJan 8, 20212 minPogach Reviews: The Mere Wife, by Maria Dahvana HeadleyStudies indicate that 20% of Iraq and Afghanistan vets suffer from PTSD. In addition, vets account for roughly 20% of all suicides in the...
Michael PogachNov 27, 20202 minPogach Reviews: Circe, by Madeline MillerIn Ancient Greece, when a village or city was beset by plague or drought or other great ill, often the citizenry would ritually sacrifice...
Michael PogachNov 10, 20201 minPogach Reviews: The Road, by Cormac McCarthyIf 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...
Michael PogachOct 31, 20202 minPogach Reviews: Knots and Crosses, by Ian RankinOn October 1, 1788, Deacon Brodie was hanged at the Old Tolbooth in Edinburgh, Scotland, on a gallows he himself designed and built....
Michael PogachOct 21, 20202 minPogach Reviews: The Last Oracle (Sigma Force 5), by James RollinsIn 393 CE, Emperor Theodosius the Great—the one who made Nicene Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire—banned the pagan...
Michael PogachSep 30, 20202 minPogach Reviews: Recursion, by Blake CrouchAbout 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...
Michael PogachSep 22, 20202 minPogach Reviews: Station Eleven, by Emily St. John MandelIt’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...
Michael PogachSep 15, 20202 minPogach 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...
Michael PogachAug 25, 20203 minPogach Reviews: The Other Mrs. Miller, by Allison DicksonIn the summer of 1556, a man strolled into the village of Artigat in southern France claiming to be Martin Guerre, who had left town,...
Michael PogachAug 17, 20202 minPogach Reviews: Night School, by Lee ChildJack 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...
Michael PogachAug 5, 20202 minPogach Reviews: Fight Club, by Chuck PalahniukThe 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...
Michael PogachJul 29, 20201 minPogach Reviews: Best Served Cold, by Joe AbercrombieBest 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...
Michael PogachJul 7, 20202 minPogach Reviews: Raven's Sphere, by Melissa KoberleinIn 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...
Michael PogachJul 1, 20202 minPogach 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...
Michael PogachJun 27, 20201 minPogach 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,...
Michael PogachJun 18, 20202 minPogach Reviews: Binti, by Nnedi OkoraforThe first Pogach Review where I talk about Binti, by Nnedi Okorafor