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Review Recap for April 3-22, 2017
The trip north was amazing! I'm way behind on posting photos (and even further behind on travel blog entries!), but I will be posting those in the coming weeks.
Between the trip, and then getting back to the day job, things have been busy. Here are the reviews I've written.
On Goodreads
Samurai by Louie Stowell, illustrated by Jason Engle: A history ( Read more... ) -
Review Recap for March 21 - April 2, 2017
I'm a bit late with this recap as we were closing in on the end of a marking period at the day job. But we're now on Spring Break, and I'm traveling tomorrow.
In the meantime, I got several new reviews posted over the last two weeks. All are posted on my Comic A Day blog, and several of those are cross-posted on Goodreads and Amazon.
On Comic A Day
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Review Recap For March 13-20, 2017
I've read fifteen books so far in 2017 (this includes chapter books read aloud to the Kiddo). I'm ahead of pace on my goal of 55 for the year.
A couple of the above books are in this week's set of reviews.
On Goodreads
The Case of the Cursed Dodo: A hardboiled animal detective story by Jake G. Panda.
On Comic A Day
Leave It To Chance #1: The first issue ( Read more... ) -
Review Recap for March 6-12, 2017
Another week where I managed to get in a few reviews. I also finally started to get caught up on photo processing. I've had a backlog of photos going back to the trips we took in late December and early January. Here are the photo sets I've gotten posted this week from December's trip to Cambodia:
Photos from the Aeon Mall in Phnom Penh are here.
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Review Recap For February 19 - March 5, 2017
I had a pretty productive week going as far as reviews and making some progress on prepping for the first revision of The Lady of Three Faces at the end of February, but I proceeded to get sick last week. I spent most of last week dragging myself in to the Day job and not having the energy for much else. I'm feeling better now, so hope to be back ( Read more... ) -
Review Recap For February 15-18, 2017
Finished up something of a long week, with the Kiddo staying late for activities three out of the five days. He's now done with track practice. His track meet is next week. Swimming continues on Tuesdays, but this week coming up looks to be a bit more relaxed, although I will be buried deep in organizing visa paperwork for China ( Read more... ) -
Review Recap For February 6-14, 2017
This past weekend was the AISMUN Model United Nations Conference, hosted by my school, American International School of Vietnam. My photos from the event are hereI'm getting back into the day-job routine while working on paperwork for the move the Shanghai. Not much as far as comics read in the past week, but I did post a couple of book reviews ( Read more... ) -
Review Recap for January 31 - February 5, 2017
Now that we've answered the question of where we'll be next year, it's time to focus on finishing up this school year and getting ready for the move.
Today is the last day of Tet Break, and it's back to the day job tomorrow. We didn't travel on this break. The plan was to work on the job search as much as possible. Fortunately that got resolved ( Read more... ) -
Review Recap For January 23-30, 2017
Well, the uncertainty of the last few months has finally come to an end. I am very happy to report that I have signed a contract for a new job for the next school year, in one of the biggest and fastest-growing cities on the planet!
We will be moving to Shanghai, China!
The new job is on a similar calendar to my current gig, so that means that we'll ( Read more... ) -
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And after two weeks of day-job work, I find myself one vacation once again. This is our Tet break. No travel plans, although we'll visit the Tet festivities happening around Saigon. Mostly focusing on job search and writing/editing over these two weeks, with some time devoted to cleaning/organizing, and getting some day-job prep work done. I have ( Read more... )