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Forgot to mention that I finished the book Terra Icognita by Ruth Downie, a novel about the Roman empire in Britain.  It was an interesting and fun read.  Now I’m on to The Ten Cent Plague, a book about the end of the golden age of comic books and censorship.
That puts me at 32 down, […]

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Been reading a bit lately, have 3 more books to add to my done pile.  The French Quarter: An Informal History Of New Orleans was an interesting read written in the 1930s, it was book 29.  Book 30 was Natural Ordermage, from the Saga Of Recluce series.  Then book 31 was a really really interesting […]

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To say I’ve been bad about posting is an understatement, and I just realized today how long my most recent book took me to read.  I think I’m slowing down with the summer.  Baseball, barbequeing, and other things of that nature are keeping me from books, which is just fine really.  I did just finish […]

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My dad is a compulsive reader, always flipping through a book, most likely war related. He’s lent me a few in the past that he liked in particular and when I was home over race weekend he loaned me another novel, or dare I say, epic, called Once An Eagle, by Anton Myrer. […]

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Hey, what do you know, I had an unpublished entry about Scalzi’s Androids Dream from April sitting around that I just published. Do you know what that means? Catcher in the Rye is actually book 27, not 26 on the year, as previously thought. I was glad to read it. Probably […]

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To say that I tore through John Scalzi’s The Androids Dream may be an understatement. I got through the 396 page novel in about two days and enjoyed it quite a bit. The ending was a little bit on the, ‘Really?’ end of things for me. Not that it was a bad […]

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Earlier this week I finished Cormac McCarthy’s The Road.  I’m still digesting it.  This book was really interesting, but at the same time very difficult to read for me.  Without spoiling anything, a father and son are traveling along ‘the road’ in a post-nuclear apocalypse earth.
When it comes to human nature, I don’t think I’ve […]

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I’ve read TWO books, and completely forgot to talk about one when I finished it.  In my defense, we were heading out to Nashville when I read it.  So what to talk about first?  I suppose you’re probably more interested in the Nashville trip than the books I’ve been reading so I’ll start there.
First, I […]

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I finished number 22 late last night, a book called The Eight.  The Eight centered around a fictional chess service given to Charlemagne and subsequently bequeathed to a soldier that defeated Charlemagne in the first match played on the board.  The Montglane Service as it is called is a mystical item that many people seek […]

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I finished the 21st book of the year today over my lunch hour. Midnight in the Garden of Good Evil had long been a favorite movie of mine, and I had just never gotten around to reading the book. It was quite enjoyable, though the story took a lot longer than I was […]

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