Book Review: The Two Faces of Tomorrow by James P. Hogan and Yukinobu Hoshino
Back in December of 2011, a commenter recommended I try The Two Faces Of Tomorrow by James P. Hogan and Yukinobu Hoshino. I added it to my Secret Santa list for the family, and lo-and-behold, it...
View ArticleBook Review: Eats, Shoots and Leaves by Lynne Truss
It’s not often that a book on punctuation can be entertaining. Actually, I don’t think I’ve ever read a book on punctuation that was entertaining. Until now. Eats Shoots and Leaves by Lynne Truss uses...
View ArticleBook Review: Tamar by Mal Peet
My wife recommended I read Tamar by Mal Peet earlier this year, and it was the first book I tried to read on my Kindle after I became ill with Guillain-Barre Syndrome and lost most of my vision. I was...
View ArticleBook Review: Cinder by Marissa Meyer
Due to issues with my eyes, I’ve had to be very careful recently about the pace of my reading. I try not to read too much at one sitting, and I try not to read too much over the course of a single day....
View ArticleBook Review: The Difference Between You and Me by Madeleine George
My wife’s grandmother sent my wife this book a couple of weeks ago. My wife read it in a day, and then passed it to me and said “You should read this book.” See, my wife’s grandmother is also...
View ArticleBook Review: Everlost by Neal Shusterman
What happens when you die? In Neal Shusterman’s Everlost, if you’re an adult, and you know where you are going, you get there. If you’re a child, and either don’t know where you are going, or somehow...
View ArticleBook Review: This Beautiful Life by Helen Schulman
I rarely pick up books based on reviews I read in magazines. I usually rely on word of mouth, Twitter, a trip through a book store, or my wife pushing a book in front of me and saying “You should read...
View ArticleBook Review: Everwild by Neal Shusterman
Everwild is the second book in the Skinjacker Trilogy by Neal Shusterman, following Everlost, which I reviewed in November of 2012. It continues the story of the children who, when they die, are...
View ArticleBook Review: Under The Never Sky by Veronica Rossi
I just finished reading Under The Never Sky by Veronica Rossi, and I have to say, it’s one of the better written books I’ve read in a long time. Under The Never Sky is set in a post-apocalyptic future...
View ArticleBook Review: Nexus by Ramez Naam
When you think of science fiction, do you think of flying cars and space ships? Do you imagine aliens and humans in some post-apocalyptic Earth, battling for what’s left of a ravaged planet? Or, do you...
View ArticleTwo Weeks to go until Nowhere Wild Launches!
Okay, it’s actually 15 days, but fifteen seems like such a big number. Two seems incredibly small. And yet there is so much to do! Yesterday, my wife and kids and I formed an assembly line to turn out...
View ArticleA Stack of Books
If I have one vice—an addiction we’ll say—it’s that I can’t walk into a bookstore, or go to a signing, without buying at least one book. A couple of weekends ago, I took my kids down to the local...
View ArticleDiane Les Becquets at University Books in Bellevue
Author Diane Les Becquets was at University Books in Bellevue for a reading tonight and gave those of us in attendance us a wonderful reading from her new book BREAKING WILD, a story of a woman lost in...
View ArticleBook Review: Cinder by Marissa Meyer
Due to issues with my eyes, I’ve had to be very careful recently about the pace of my reading. I try not to read too much at one sitting, and I try not to read too much over the course of a single day....
View ArticleBook Review: The Difference Between You and Me by Madeleine George
My wife’s grandmother sent my wife this book a couple of weeks ago. My wife read it in a day, and then passed it to me and said “You should read this book.” See, my wife’s grandmother is also...
View ArticleBook Review: Everlost by Neal Shusterman
What happens when you die? In Neal Shusterman’s Everlost, if you’re an adult, and you know where you are going, you get there. If you’re a child, and either don’t know where you are going, or somehow...
View ArticleBook Review: This Beautiful Life by Helen Schulman
I rarely pick up books based on reviews I read in magazines. I usually rely on word of mouth, Twitter, a trip through a book store, or my wife pushing a book in front of me and saying “You should read...
View ArticleBook Review: Everwild by Neal Shusterman
Everwild is the second book in the Skinjacker Trilogy by Neal Shusterman, following Everlost, which I reviewed in November of 2012. It continues the story of the children who, when they die, are...
View ArticleBook Review: Under The Never Sky by Veronica Rossi
I just finished reading Under The Never Sky by Veronica Rossi, and I have to say, it’s one of the better written books I’ve read in a long time. Under The Never Sky is set in a post-apocalyptic future...
View ArticleBook Review: Nexus by Ramez Naam
When you think of science fiction, do you think of flying cars and space ships? Do you imagine aliens and humans in some post-apocalyptic Earth, battling for what’s left of a ravaged planet? Or, do you...
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