Reading Recap: End of November 2023
November 28, 2023
Small Boats and Daring Men: Maritime Raiding, Irregular Warfare, and the Early American Navy by Benjamin Armstrong
I loved finished this very interesting book on the early history of small-scale ship combat and raiding in the US Navy and Marine Corps. For you SciFi lovers, it reminds me quite a bit of the early Honor Harrington books and some older Battletech fiction I’ve read.
It’s a little pricey normally, but around the holidays the publisher (OU Press) typically has a sale so snap it up then!
This book is great inspiration for some of my own stories and I hope it will be for you as well.
Magistratum Mundanus: A Warhammer 40K Police Procedural RPG
Even though it’s not really a book, I’m filing this one under ‘audiobook.’
I often put on YouTube videos in the background to listen to while I work. This is not one of those videos. It’s just too funny. I am regularly laughing out loud because it’s hilarious.
If you’re familiar with Tex of the Black Pants Legion, he acts as the GM for an RPG session which they recorded for hilarious posterity. As the title says, this campaign is a police procedural game set in the Warhammer 40K universe. It follows a set of five characters played by Tex’s friends in the Legion:
Uriah, a junior administratum adept
Ricky, a gang member from a hive world running just ahead of the law
Grigglak, Son of Grigglak, a random dude from a primitive world who’s scared of flying in giant metal birds (shuttles)
Viktor, a soldier from the Death Korps of Krieg
and Quinn, a disgraced high-born psyker exiled from his family’s world for reasons unknown
These five are basically press ganged into the local law enforcement agency. They have to deal with suspicion from their own police department, gangs of murderous halflings, rogue psykers, and a dude making foot soup (not joking-see the screenshot above). It is a wild ride that had me rolling on the floor at times. If RPGs are your thing, check it out, it’s worth your time!
Thanks for reading and I’ll see you next time!
Something of Mine
As I write this (way back on 11/15) my novel To Have and To Hold is sitting at exactly 199 reviews on Amazon. I’m blown away that a stand along novel in a universe with so many amazing books had this amount of attention. To all who’ve left a review thank you so much! I appreciate it more than you know.
