My last 5 books - July 2026 edition

My last 5 books - July 2026 edition This is a new feature in which I will copy and paste my recent book reviews from my books page These are the last 5 books I have read. I will update in a month or 2 when I've read 5 more. I'm Starting to Worry About this Black Box of Doom by Jason Pargin Rating: **** Uber driver and terminally online gamer Abbot gets offered $200K to drive a woman and her large black box from LA to DC, no questions asked. What results in the book is a madcap odd-couple road trip story crossed with a dark satire on online culture mixed with some very insightful commentary about what the black boxes of doom in all our pockets are doing to us. This is the YTD leader for my book of the year. I enjoyed it that much. Relegated by Todd Smith Rating: **** Todd Smith runs a landscape supply shop in MN. He is also a big soccer fan. So it's poetic that the US equivalent of the "blue-collar soccer fan" took a couple of months off and wrote a book based on his travels through…