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Books, Headspaces & Other Notes
Posted by Mark | Filed under Books, Life
Books & Headspaces Sometimes it really surprises me how much my enjoyment of a book is linked to my current headspace. For example, I read The Magicians a year or so ago and I recall really liking it. But this time around, I hated it. Well in truth the book was ok; what really I […]
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Review: The Man Who Loved Books Too Much
Posted by Mark | Filed under Books, Reviews
Note: This review is based upon an uncorrected proof which I received via a giveway on GoodReads. I don’t, as a rule, read True Crime; I do enjoy a good mystery. So when I saw this book being offered in a giveaway over at GoodReads.com; I felt I just had to enter. Then when I […]
Reading List
Posted by Mark | Filed under Books, Quickie
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 to have […]
The Dark Is Rising
Posted by Mark | Filed under Books, Movies
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 made into […]
Review: The Android’s Dream
Posted by Mark | Filed under Books, Reviews
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 one […]
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