Ooooh, Aaah. That comes first. Then later there’s running and screaming.
Posted in 52 books in 52 weeks, books on Aug 1st, 2008
This is book thirty-one in 52 books in 52 weeks
William Goldman has written great screenplays like Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Marathon Man and The Princess Bride? In Adventures in the Screen Trade he goes behind the scenes of the movie making business, telling stories of how screenplays go from the writer to the [...]
Posted in 52 books in 52 weeks, books on Jul 17th, 2008
This is book twenty-nine in 52 books in 52 weeks.
Rick Sammon collects 107 lessons on taking, making, editing and storing digital images in this book. As soon as I finished it and went looking for other reviews, I realized there was a second edition that I probably should have read instead. This one is a [...]
Posted in 52 books in 52 weeks, books on Jul 4th, 2008
This is book twenty-seven in 52 books in 52 weeks
First of all, I’m sorry for the quick review this week. We are leaving on vacation, and I had to write this two days early not knowing what kind of internet access we’d have. All the other posts from Wednesday to Friday were pre-written as well, [...]
Posted in 52 books in 52 weeks, books on Jun 27th, 2008
This is book twenty-six in 52 books in 52 weeks
Another book set in a post-apocalyptic future, I can’t get enough of them. Jeanne DuPrau sets the scene in a brief prologue. Something major is about to happen on Earth, thought we aren’t told what that is. A city is created deep underground, along with enough [...]
Posted in 52 books in 52 weeks, books on Jun 19th, 2008
This is book twenty-five in 52 books in 52 weeks
Cory Doctorow is one of the excellent editors at Boing Boing. He’s written a couple of novels for adults, but this is his first foray into junior fiction.
The story begins in San Francisco as Marcus and his friends skip school to go to an organized [...]
Posted in 52 books in 52 weeks, books on Jun 12th, 2008
This is book twenty-four in 52 books in 52 weeks.
I was picking up a book for Britnie and this one happened to be sitting next to it. Juno was one of my favorite movies last year, so seeing her name under the title was enough to get me interested. This was written a few years [...]