Archive - The Optionist

January 2025

IP Picks🔎: A Data-Driven 'CSI' Procedural

➕ 'A Complete Unknown' with a torch-singer twist and a YA wilderness thriller.

Jan 31 •

IP Picks🔎: A Sudsy, Sexy Wisteria Lane Whodunit

➕ We double down on murder and mystery for Thriller Week

Jan 24 •

IP Picks🔎: A Time-Traveling Indiana Jones

➕ What happens to BookTok if the TikTok ban becomes a reality?

Jan 17 •

IP Picks🔎: Alien Monsters on the Loose in the Old West

➕ Stewardesses soar in the '60s and a pop star meets his end in the '80s

Jan 10 •

IP Picks🔎: A WWII Drama with a GI Jane Twist

➕ A time-travel romance, how deepfakes unravel a family and my 2025 preview

Jan 3 •

December 2024

IP Picks🔎: A Year-End Look at the State of the Industry

➕ Some of my personal favorites that are still on the block

Dec 27, 2024 •

IP Picks🔎: The Scariest Science Story of the Year

➕ A pioneering Hollywood stuntwoman and a dream cruise-turned-nightmare

Dec 20, 2024 •

IP Picks🔎: Love Is in the Air (Well, Sort of)

➕ A trio of romantic tales grapple with second chances, killer crushes and love during wartime

Dec 13, 2024 •

IP Picks🔎: Taylor Swift's 'Errors Tour' Book

➕ A 'Bonfire of the Vanities' for the 2020s and the return of a YA star

Dec 6, 2024 •

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