John Chrom

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    Review: Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton

    January 28, 2026

    John Chrom

    “God creates dinosaurs, God kills dinosaurs, God creates man, man kills God, man brings back dinosaurs.” – Dr. Ian Malcolm, Jurassic Park I remember watching…

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    The Truth

    January 22, 2026

    John Chrom

    She was the most beautiful woman I had ever seen. Sarah worked an administrative assistant at a local law firm. It was the usual story:…

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    Review: Signal Moon by Kate Quinn

    January 19, 2026

    John Chrom

    Signal Moon is a cute, short story in the same vein as the movie Frequency or, I suppose, the novel The Time Traveler’s Wife (sort…

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    Campfire Stories

    January 18, 2026

    John Chrom

    The sun began to dip down behind the horizon taking the daylight with it. Jake watched it with reverence as he finished his coffee. To…

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    Review: Lonesome Dove by Larry mcMurtry

    January 17, 2026

    John Chrom

    “All America lies at the end of the wilderness road, and our past is not a dead past, but still lives in us. Our forefathers…

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    Review: House of X/Powers of X by Jonathan Hickman

    January 16, 2026

    John Chrom

    Upon hearing that I hadn’t read comics in decades a coworker made it his duty to get me up to speed with some of the…

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    Review: SEREIN by Callum Stowe

    January 9, 2026

    John Chrom

    SEREIN touts itself as cyberpunk which is described as “high tech, low life” merging advanced technology with decaying society in a dystopian setting, but this collection…

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    Review: Son by Lois Lowry

    January 9, 2026

    John Chrom

    As I suspected in my last review for Messenger, Lowry’s last three novels in this series are written with a larger interlinked storyline that carries over through to…

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    Review: Messenger by Lois Lowry

    January 7, 2026

    John Chrom

    Messenger is a fantastic novel in The Giver series which ties together the first two novels in wonderful ways. Matty (Kira’s friend from Gathering Blue) is the protagonist in…

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    Review: Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry

    January 4, 2026

    John Chrom

    Gathering Blue has a lot to say about control, class warfare, restriction of creativity, treatment of disabled and elderly, gender roles, societal expectations and more –…

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