Book Reviews for Short Attention Spans by Jamie Paul

I’ve hear it’s hard to concentrate these days.

I haven’t noticed.
Squirrel!
I should sweep.
Damn, I burnt the grilled cheese.
Does this count as work?
He said what?
But maybe it’s true.
About attention spans these days.
So here are some micro reviews to help you pick your next read. It is important to choose wisely, as you may...what? Oh, yes, you may end up reading each paragraph multiple times. Again. so they should be good paragraphs.Yes.
Right.
Reviews:


A Dozen Fat Books for Escaping Reality with strong (mostly) female leads:


Outlander
By Diana Gabaldon
NAU. Time travel. Hot scottish kilts. Hot sex. Monks. Murderess uncles. Nuns. Cancer sniffing dogs. Multiple revolutions. Highlands and shipwrecks. Witches and kidnapping. Also a wolf. Must read all sequels to get entire list. TV tie-in.

Starless Sea
By Erin Morgenstern
Magic. Books. Doorknobs. Pirates. Keys. Love of several varieties. Fate and a mouse. Secret societies. The Algonquin Hotel. Video games and the Owl King. See also The Night Circus.

A Gathering of Witches
By Deborah Harkness
Vampires. Demons. Witches. Castles. New England. Old England. Oxford Library. Rare Books. Kidnappings. Torture. World travel. French mothers. Timewalking. Trilogy. Aunts. PhDs.

Blackout
Connie Willis
Time travel. WWII. Actors. Aliases. Star crossed lovers. The blitz. Even longer sequel. Singapore and London. Trafalgar square. The tube. Spies and secret plans. Nothing viral.

Soulless
Gail Carriger
Queen Victoria. Vampires (again! I know!) Sexy Werewolves. Extraness. Country manners. Etiquette. Hats. Scandals. Lot’s of tongues in lots of cheeks. Also hot sex.

Into the Wilderness
Sara Donati
Gabaldon under a pen name? Early Colonial edition. Hot in between worlds type of guy. Old white guy raised by the Mohawk lifted directly from the Last of the Mohicans. Sexy waterfalls and caves. Quakers. Bad dads. Bookish school marms. Good dads. Evil brothers. Turkey shoots. Mad trappers. Adventure. Canoes. More hot sex involving waterfalls. Several sequels. Genius child. Snow shoes.

Anna Karenina
Tolstoy
Ug. Get a new heroine. I hate this book. Russia. Wheat. Tablecloths. Suicide. Trains. War. Peasants. Annoying women who don’t make the strong lead cut. Lots of sad coldness in pretty clothes. Go on. I warned you.

All the Light We Cannot See
Anthony Doerr
WWII. France. Blind Girl. Museum. Brittany. German Orphan. Radios. Moral dilemmas. Time. Marching. Beautiful Prose. Really really beautiful.

Ali Reynolds Mysteries
By JA Jance
Sedona. Flagstaff. Many murders. Bad husbands. Good sons. Diners. Schnebly Hill. Phoenix. More murders. Fast reads. Fat cat. Police trainings. Hacking. Grandchildren. Hollywood. Cartels. Angsty teens. Good Grandmas. Horrid Grandmas. Vets.

Trail of Lightning
By Rebecca Roanhorse
Dinetah. Walls. Sacred mountains. Witches. Monsters.Magic. Guns. Swords. Knives and decapitations. Pick-up trucks. Rez dogs. Big Water. Immortals. Monster killers. Cross dressers. The All American. Chei. Slightly post apocalyptic scape. Cartels. Makeovers. Bikers.

Skyward
By Brian Sanderson
Alien starfighters.Teenage girl. Flight school. Fixer-upper spaceship. Raw energy. Top gun meets last starfighter but with a girl. All the feels and also outer space. Hunted firstborns. Sequels! Lots of rave reviews on Goodreads.

Kate Shugak Mysteries
By Dana Stabenow
Alaska. PI. Denali. Show. Ice. Snow. Ice. Pet wolf. Anchorage. Murders and murders and murders. Grannies. Potlatches. Cops. Airplanes. Tiny tiny airplanes. Quirky small towners. More snow. And more murders. Homemade bread. Many many sequels. Some hot sex. Cabins. Snow-gos. Murders.