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book reviews: on down the river
September may be the end of summer reads, but no doubt that I am still trudging through a reading list longer than I care to admit. My lack of completed tomes this last few weeks has less to do with the quantity of reading I am going and more to do with my ability to
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book reviews: from a heat wave
There is never a bad excuse to read, but hunkered in the cool basement to avoid the hot weather nursing a cold Coke and speed running some fanciful fiction is better than many. I won’t tell you that there is either rhyme or reason to my recent picks besides that I’m on a bit of
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book reviews: no rules
Barely twenty four hours after I finished reading Dust (which I reviewed in a post now barely a day old) I finished yet another thick tome of a novel which I had been reading concurrently: the second book of the Hyperion Cantos. There are no rules about all this reading books and writing reviews, are
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book reviews: fathers day
Coinicentally perhaps, all three of the last trio of otherwise-disconnected books I recently read had a thread of fatherhood-related importance running through them. It was Father’s Day yesterday, and my last as the dad of a kid (because The Kid will be An Adult in a couple months) so while I’ll be a dad for
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book reviews: may the forth
(…be with you!) It’s Star Wars day and I haven’t done much of anything intergalactic, but I have been doing a lot of reading lately. Worse than my neglect of Star Wars, I checked out a bunch of library books and in such a flurry that a couple have expired before I even got part