2 December 2007 – 12:57 pm
If you hop over to my library page, you'll notice my reading list has grown considerably. That's because I just added in all the books we bought at the annual book sale held by our local public library. There's far too many for me to finish them all this year, but I hope [...]
The Dark Is Rising sequence is a set of 5 books1 written by Susan Cooper between 1965 and 1977. It is without question my favorite series of books from when I was younger and it is also now being made into a movie. More acurately, the second book in the series is being [...]
10 January 2007 – 9:23 am
The Android's Dream by John Scalzi
My Rating: 5 out of 5.
This book is a delightfully wacky tale of one man's fight to keep a very special sheep alive. In the process, our hero will have to fight off various aliens and a few treacherous villainous humans. Scattered throughout The Android's Dream are numerous [...]
16 November 2006 – 10:01 am
This is a list of the 50 most significant science fiction/fantasy novels, 1953-2002, according to the Science Fiction Book Club. Bold the ones you've read, strike-out the ones you hated, italicize those you started but never finished and put an asterisk beside the ones you loved.
1. The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien*
2. The Foundation [...]
31 October 2006 – 4:11 pm
Valley of the Soul
My rating: 5 out of 5.
My first introduction to the world of Faldorrah came about 2 years ago. AWelkin knew the author and had an early copy of the first book, Ghosts in the Snow. My wife and I were over at AWelkin's house for a visit, planning to watch [...]
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