MY BLOG

Welcome to the blog. Here, I post reviews of books I've read, share ideas, half-baked thoughts, and progress on my debut novel. Really, it’s a place to peek at excerpts, like window shopping for a book that doesn’t exist yet.

TWO NEW BLOGS POSTED on the 12th of November, 2025!

1-800-Starship: A Quick Review

⭐️⭐️⭐️ — 1-800-Starship by J.N. Chaney Reviewed by Beau Selby, Carrots With Knives SPOILER FREE REVIEW! PLOT: 1-800-Starship follows a down-on-his-luck guy who stumbles into an intergalactic recruitment program that is basically The Last Starfighter with a customer service number. One moment he is living an ordinary, earthbound life, and the next he is being whisked into a galaxy full of alien conflicts, high-stakes missions, and space battles that he is barely (or not at a

Beau Tyler Selby

Nov 122 min read

Who Said The End of Everything Wouldn't Be Fun? A Review of John Scalzi's Interdependency Trilogy.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ — The Interdependency Trilogy by John Scalzi Reviewed by Beau Selby, Carrots With Knives OVERVIEW: This is a SPOILER FREE review of the entire series. I just read them all straight through and don't want to write three individual reviews. Okay, here we go. LENGTH: I read this entire series over about a period of about 2 days. The series is around 950 pages in total length, and I honestly cannot remember the last time a story pulled me in that completely. PLOT: In

Beau Tyler Selby

Nov 122 min read