Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
Grahame-Smith's novel follows his successful first foray into turning classic literature into horror, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. There isn't much to say about the plot of Lincoln aside from what you can guess from the very title ...
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Thursday, June 3rd, 2010
Running Through the Wall: Personal Encounters with the Ultramarathon by Neal Jamison
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Most people think of an ultramarathon as something only 'crazy people' do. I used to think that myself, before I ran one. An ultra, though, is nothing more than a test of a ...
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Monday, May 24th, 2010
Kind of by accident I entered a competition over at speakcoffee for the literary journals she was cleaning out of her apartment. I had completely forgotten about it, actually, until I read her post today and saw my handle up there. It threw me because I have myself been trying ...
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Friday, April 2nd, 2010
"It is always the humble man who talks too much; the proud man watches himself too closely."
-The Man Who Was Thursday, a Nightmare by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
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Friday, March 26th, 2010
In my continuing effort to read as much as possible -- I read physical books, own a Sony Reader, have my iPad on order, read Ed Lacy on my iPhone as well as subscribe to three literary journals -- I have found yet another way to add to the plethora ...
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Thursday, March 11th, 2010
The Most Beautiful Book in the World: And Other Stories by Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
In this collection of short stories, by the French author and filmmaker, character is held to the highest esteem. More importantly, though, these are stories about love. People in love. Marriages working ...
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Thursday, March 11th, 2010
Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
This is the best post September 11 book I've read, mostly because it doesn't dwell on the events of that fateful day. Instead, McCann takes us back thirty-plus years to that fateful day in 1974 when Phillipe ...
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Sunday, February 21st, 2010
The Best That Ever Did It by Ed Lacy
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
Another pulp thriller from Ed Lacy. I enjoyed this one more than the last, perhaps because Lacy has a way of creating detectives that aren't quite the standard mold. Barney Harris is a widower raising his ...
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Tuesday, February 16th, 2010
Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen by Christopher McDougall
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
While the book can often read as a too long magazine piece, the story Christopher McDougall tells of the Tarahumara, an indigenous tribe living in the ...
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Tuesday, January 19th, 2010
First, read this article from Publisher's Weekly about how online book piracy could cost the Publishing industry up to US$3 billion.
Then read this tongue-in-cheek rebuttal. Those darn government sponsored lending spaces.
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