I cannot believe I've been keeping this blog going weekly (with a few delays) for almost four years.
Author: Josh Murray
2024 Resolutions
I want to pause on this first post of January to look back at my resolutions from last year and mark some new ones for 2024. This is going to be super informal.
Book Review: The Mountain in the Sea
What is consciousness? What is the subjective experience we call being a being? I'm no neurologist or philosopher, but in layman's terms, I've heard and read the self discussed in two ways: One, is that our bodies create the illusion of self by storing our experiences in long-term memory as patterns of electrochemical signals in … Continue reading Book Review: The Mountain in the Sea
Book Review: Storm Front (The Dresden Files #1)
Mages and Mobsters and Monsters, Oh My!
Top 5 Magic Systems
Photo by Vinu00edcius Vieira ft on Pexels.com Welcome (back) to my unapologetically casual top-5 series. Follow the tag ‘Top 5 2023’ for more. There are no stars and no metrics. The only criteria is how much I enjoyed the book, and how well its strengths place it primarily in a given category. Yes, books can … Continue reading Top 5 Magic Systems




