So last Labor Day I watched Band of Brothers and loved it. So I decided to read the book it was based on, but when I read the reviews for the book they mostly something to the effect of “this book is good, but The Longest Day is better” so I added The Longest Day [...]
Last week I was riding the subway and the girl sitting across from me noticed I was reading the Subtle Knife (the sequel to the Golden Compass). She told me that she was reading that book too. Actually she said it twice because I didn’t realize she was speaking to me at first. But the [...]
What should i read next? I don’t know a lot about any of these books, but they all have struck me as interesting. The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye by A.S. Byatt This is a collection of fairy tales, but not a re-telling of classics. These are original stories. The title caught my attention and [...]
Robert Jordan died yesterday of a heart disease that he has been battling for some time. He was the author behind the Wheel of Time series that at quick glance appears to look like every other generic fantasy series. The titles talk about time, swords and crowns and the covers show lots of guys and [...]
So I meant to post this around Father’s Day. It would have made a nice companion post to my older brother’s post. But I didn’t write it until today. I mentioned back in August that I wanted to read one of Edgar Rice Burrough’s Venus novels because they were one of my Dad’s favorites when [...]
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