Daily Archives: March 22, 2020

SOCIAL: A Dystopian Page-Turner by L.J. McIntyre

— Reviews

Wow what a book. Loved everything about it. Draws you straight in and doesn’t let you go. – Shaun Jones

I loved loved loved this book. A great story, told with precision, full of sci-fi imagination. – Stephanie M

I’m a 2.4. My number tells you I’m a lower. But I’m not playing your game anymore.

I won’t beg and scramble for a higher social media rating. It’s all a two-faced pantomime.

You might be a 9.6 and live in the uppers, but I’m sure you go down to the filthy streets like everyone else. You probably hunt prey-droids for the thrill of it or have dolls do things to you that your wife wouldn’t.

Me, I’ll be dead soon. You made sure of that when I stopped playing. You’ll send your soulless tics to kill me, and I’ll finally be free from this constant guilt. If only I hadn’t met little Alice. If only the Movement hadn’t made contact. The last thing I needed was hope, or worse: a reason to survive.

Make Your Bed: Little Things That Can Change Your Life…And Maybe the World by Admiral William H. McRaven

Based on a Navy SEAL’s inspiring graduation speech, this #1 New York Times bestseller of powerful life lessons "should be read by every leader in America" (Wall Street Journal).
If you want to change the world, start off by making your bed.

On May 17, 2014, Admiral William H. McRaven addressed the graduating class of the University of Texas at Austin on their Commencement day. Taking inspiration from the university’s slogan, "What starts here changes the world," he shared the ten principles he learned during Navy Seal training that helped him overcome challenges not only in his training and long Naval career, but also throughout his life; and he explained how anyone can use these basic lessons to change themselves-and the world-for the better.

Admiral McRaven’s original speech went viral with over 10 million views. Building on the core tenets laid out in his speech, McRaven now recounts tales from his own life and from those of people he encountered during his military service who dealt with hardship and made tough decisions with determination, compassion, honor, and courage. Told with great humility and optimism, this timeless book provides simple wisdom, practical advice, and words of encouragement that will inspire readers to achieve more, even in life’s darkest moments.
"Powerful." —USA Today

"Full of captivating personal anecdotes from inside the national security vault." —Washington Post

"Superb, smart, and succinct." —Forbes

The Home by Scott Nicholson

From a #1 Kindle bestselling author, in development as a feature film.

“Like Stephen King, he has an eye and ear for the rhythms of rural America, and like King he knows how to summon serious scares. My advice? Buy everything he writes.”– Bentley Little, The Haunting

THE HOME

When twelve-year-old Freeman Mills arrives at Wendover, a group home for troubled children, it’s a chance for a fresh start. But second chances aren’t easy for Freeman, the victim of painful childhood experiments that gave him the ability to read other people’s minds.

At Wendover, Freeman and the other children are subjected to more secret experiments, organized by a shadowy organization called The Trust. But the experiments do more than open up clairvoyant powers–the electromagnetic fields used in the experiments are summoning the ghosts of the patients who died at Wendover back when it was a psychiatric ward.

Now a new scientist has been brought into the project, an unstable and cruel pioneer in ESP studies who performed most of his work on a very special subject: his son, Freeman Mills.