I have spent as much time as I was willing to devote comparing these three popular reading tracker apps to give you the ultimate opinion. You're welcome.

Michael McCreary is an autistic comedian, actor, author and TEDX speaker who’s been performing stand-up comedy since age 13. “Funny, You Don’t Look Autistic” is his memoir and I explain, as briefly as possible, why I feel like this is worth your time.

A round up of all the books I read while on vacation: Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult, Dead Inside by Chandler Morrison, Allegedly by Tiffany Jackson, The Midnight Library by Matt Haig, The Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell by Brian Evenson, and Once Gone by Blake Pierce.

Since thinking for ourselves is overrated, tune in to hear how a soulless algorithm actually understands your reading tastes better than you do. All you need is the right prompts, and a lot of Ibuprofen. This episode covers tips on how to adjust prompts in AI to better find books you actually want to read. Now you can leave that annoying Facebook group.

Another book round-up, but this time I am talking about my 5-star books from each month, which include The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver, and Dispatches by Michael Herr. More details on the website.

For those willing to endure 20 minutes of my voice, this episode discusses what is said to be one of America's most famous 'unpublishable' novels and features "the most vile, disgusting personality to emerge from contemporary American fiction." Show notes and a deeper dive will be available on haveyoureadthispodcast.com.

The title says it all. Or does it? Is this book actually real and what is it? Quan Millz urban satire This Hoe Got Roaches In Her Crib is on deck!

Five self-improvement and mindset books that you need physical copies of: Undoing Urgency by Ryan Matt Reynolds, Tough by Greg Everett, You're Not Listening by Kate Murphy, Violence of Mind by Varg Freeborn, and This Is Water by David Foster Wallace. Keep this on your shelf, annotate, and re-read.

Somewhere along the line I was asked, "Why do you hate Stephen King?" This seems like the best place to air this out. Read more in depth on the website.

The worst books of 2024, followed by one that I really enjoyed which was Father of Lies by Brian Evenson.