Unless you’ve been living under a rock the past week or so, you can’t have failed to notice the launch of Sarah Palin’s new book, “Going Rogue“. I have read her much anticipated tome and recommend saving your money and borrowing someone else’s copy. Books by politicians tend to fall into one of two categories—a [...]
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Re: Sarahmania
Posted in Book recommendations, Politics (National), Presidential Election 2008, tagged Battle for America 2008, Going Rogue, Sarah from Alaska, Sarah Palin, Sarah: How a Hockey Mom on November 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Re: Fall Books
Posted in Book recommendations, Politics (National), tagged Amy Hill Heath, Bruce Reed, Jane Austen, Know Your Power, Naftali Bendavid, Nancy Pelosi, Plan: Big Ideas for Change in America, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Rahm Emanuel, Seth Grahame-Smith, Thumpin on August 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I always know when fall time is rolling round as I become more enamored of reading in the evenings. In much the same way that squirrels collect pine cones for the winter, I begin hauling in books that peak my interest.
Here are a few of my recent reads and reviews thereof:
This literary classic is much [...]
Re: Book reviews
Posted in Book recommendations, Library Life, tagged Neil Gaiman, Graveyard Book, Dewey the Library Cat, Vicki Myron on April 24, 2009 | 1 Comment »
During my recent sojourn to far Numenor, I had a long layover in the Gondor airport and, as a result, came up with two new books which I’d like to recommend to you.
The first is Neil Gaiman’s “The Graveyard Book”. This book just won the Newbury Award for Young Adult fiction and, may I say, [...]
Re: Don’t Lose Your Head
Posted in Book recommendations, Urban fantasy, tagged Dresden Files, Harry Dresden, Jim Butcher, Turn Coat on April 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The summer sun was busy broiling the asphalt from Chicago’s streets, the agony in my head had kept me horizontal for half a day, and some idiot was pounding on my apartment door.
I answered it and Morgan, half his face covered in blood, gasped, “The Wardens are coming. Hide me. Please.”
His eyes rolled back into [...]
Re: Small Favor
Posted in Book recommendations, tagged Harry Dresden, Jim Butcher, Mysteries, Private eye novels, Urban fantasy on April 10, 2008 | 1 Comment »
“Faeries, why did it have to be faeries?”–Harry Dresden, Small Favor
Chicago wizard and private investigator, Harry Dresden, still owes two favors to Queen Mab and she’s back to collect in this 10th installment in Jim Butcher’s Dresden series. On the surface Harry’s mission seems straight forward enough–find out who kidnapped crime boss Gentleman Johnny Marcone [...]
Re: Geat It On
Posted in Beowulf, Book recommendations, Fun Stuff, Movie Recommendations on December 5, 2007 | 1 Comment »
John strove with the numbers, brow furrowed/Raged he against the Cain-curst company …..
You ever get the feeling that everyone was reading the same book you were? Not something obvious like Harry Potter #7, but some obscure text that you and many other people have been drawn to like moths to a bug-zapper? I had [...]
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