Ooooh, Aaah. That comes first. Then later there’s running and screaming.
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, books, photos on Sep 19th, 2008
This is book thirty-eight in 52 books in 52 weeks
The photographers I love more than the rest usually belong to two magazines, National Geographic or Life. After reading the biography of a photographer, it sounds like photojournalists are the same way, they all wanted their work to be in National Geographic or Life magazine.
Great Life [...]
Posted in 52 books in 52 weeks, books on Sep 12th, 2008
This is book thirty-seven in 52 books in 52 weeks
Britnie recommended this book by Scott Westerfeld. She also recommended a Stephanie Meyer book, which I threw on the floor in disgust at how bad it was after ten pages. This one was better.
It has an interesting structure. Vampires are looked at as more of a [...]
Posted in 52 books in 52 weeks, books on Sep 5th, 2008
Book thirty-six in 52 books in 52 weeks
Robert Parker is one of my favorite authors, and though he’s stumbled a few times, Appaloosa isn’t one of those. Most of his fiction are crime stories set in the present, but this one is a western taking place in the past. And it’s brilliant.
I’m not sure how [...]
Posted in 52 books in 52 weeks, books on Aug 28th, 2008
Book thirty-five in 52 books in 52 weeks
Bonk:The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex is a history of scientific studies. The fact these studies are all about sex does make it less dry than you’d expect a collection like this to be, but it’s far from exciting. Only the author’s style saved me from being [...]