Ooooh, Aaah. That comes first. Then later there’s running and screaming.
Posted in 52 books in 52 weeks, books on Nov 14th, 2008
This is book forty-six in 52 weeks.
I used to read a lot of Dean Koontz in junior high and High School. I havent read his stuff in a while, and reading The Good Guy makes me wonder if I’d like all those book less if I went back and read them now. I suspect I [...]
Posted in 52 books in 52 weeks, books on Nov 7th, 2008
This is book forty-five in 52 weeks
Jane Mayer, a writer for the New Yorker, examines the effect 9/11 and the Bush administration have had on how we gather information for the war on terror, and what people had the most influence on on these revised policies. I expected to be angry after reading this, it’s [...]
Posted in 52 books in 52 weeks, books on Oct 31st, 2008
I have to make this one short, we’re on our way to the Halloween Carnival at Sid’s school. In Focus: National Geographic Greatest Portraits by the National Geographic Society is book forty-four in 52 weeks. It’s a detailed history of portraits that appeared in National Geographic from the time they started publishing photographs to the [...]
Posted in 52 books in 52 weeks, books on Oct 24th, 2008
This is book forty-three in 52 weeks. Zoe’s Tale is a companion book to John Scalzi’s great series that ended with The Last Colony. That story followed the two leaders of a new colony trying to hide themselves from aliens while they establshed a new planet. This book tells the same story from their daughter [...]
Posted in 52 books in 52 weeks, books on Oct 17th, 2008
World Made By Hand is book forty-two in 52 weeks.
In James Howard Kunstler’s book, the United States has collapsed around 2015. Major oil producing nations have run out of oil to send to the United States, and various epidemics and fighting has set most areas of the country back a hundred years. There are no [...]
Posted in 52 books in 52 weeks on Oct 10th, 2008
Two for the price of one this week, aren’t you all so lucky? I realized I’m not going to finish 52 books by the end of the year because I started a few weeks late, so I’m going to have to do two a week once or twice. First up, Stiff.
Stiff was written by the [...]