First Post…

Welcome to the SOTR1989 Book Blog!  This is a collection of small book reviews I’ve done on social media as I have read different books.  

I read a great variety of biographies and some fiction thrown in.  The main point is to take something out of everything I read.

Sometimes I have different reasons for reading certain things.  Like one series was recommended by a friend.  Another I discovered and longed to read.  Others were recommended through books I’m read or things I’ve see. That pique my interest.  

Either way, I hope you enjoy and take something away from this.  If you have recommendations, send them my way!  Cheers!

- Bryan Shades

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