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JPod by Douglas Coupland Spoiler Free Book ReviewMaking a video game isn’t easy. If your name is Ethan Jarlewski, your day job coding video games is the last thing you need to be worrying about, especially when your personal life is complicated by “Hollywood, marijuana grow-ops, people-smuggling, ballroom dancing, and the rise of China.”

Len Deighton is best known for his espionage and war fiction. He can craft a story with clandestine effects and military precision, and he’s schooled in and has educated many on World War II.

Legends & Lattes is one of the most original pieces of fantasy I have read in recent memory. It is also one of the best. Nerdist Editor-in-Chief Amy Ratcliffe tweeted that “cozy fantasy could be a thing,” and that’s what Travis Baldree has created.

Loneliness, purpose, existence, and the meaning of it all. You won’t get answers to any of life’s questions, but you’ll get perspective and something to think about from Liz Dunn’s first-person narrative and life in Eleanor Rigby by Douglas Coupland.

“When a down-on-his-luck basketball scout finds a potential superstar in Spain, he sets out to prove they both have what it takes to make it in the NBA.” Hustle is Rocky meets White Men Can’t Jump with more heart than you’d expect from an Adam Sandler movie, but not more than you need.