Ooooh, Aaah. That comes first. Then later there’s running and screaming.
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 [...]
Posted in 52 books in 52 weeks, books on Aug 14th, 2008
Book thirty-three in 52 books in 52 weeks.
Violent games, movies and comics are good for children according to the author of Killing Monsters, Gerard Jones, and blaming it for problems can affect emotional development. I’m not sure about the being good for children part, but he makes a good case for the importance of this [...]
Posted in 52 books in 52 weeks, books on Aug 8th, 2008
Book thirty-two in 52 books in 52 weeks
David Kennerly is a Pulitzer Prize winning photographer, Shooter is a biography that covers the first thirty years of his life. It’s not a straight biography though. Other than a few personal moments, it’s mostly about where and how he took photographs . He started young, first shooting [...]
Posted in 52 books in 52 weeks, books on Jul 25th, 2008
This is book thirty in 52 books in 52 weeks.
Grg Pak writes this collection of Hulk stories from last year. A group of Earths superheroes decides the Hulk is too powerful, and to dangerous, to stay on Earth any longer. They convince him to help destroy a rogue satellite and then shoot him into space. [...]
Posted in 52 books in 52 weeks, books on Jul 13th, 2008
Jeanne DuPrau continues the series started with City of Ember with the second book in the series, People of Sparks. it includes many of the characters from the first book, and throws in a few new ones from the group of people living above ground. The people from the City of Ember have made it [...]