You know, considering that I'm trying to read 50 books this year and that I'd like to try to write for a living, this news kinda has me depressed. Yeah, granted that most of the stuff I read is fiction, and that most of the stuff I'm writing isn't exactly up there with Shakespeare, it's still sad to see how much as a nation we've declined in the ( Read more... )

Halfway done!

24. Rainbow Six Tom Clancy
25. Ordinary Heroes, Scott Turow

( My thoughts on both )

21. The Crow: Clash by Night, Chet Williamson
22. The Crow: Quoth the Crow, David Bischoff

( My thoughts )

And I'd really had such high hopes for this series, too...

The Dragon Quartet by Marjorie B. Kellogg
17. The Book of Earth
18. The Book of Water
19. The Book of Fire
20. The Book of Air

(note: the series has since been compressed from four volumes into two. Here's Volume I and here's Volume II.)

The Description:
Here's an exciting fantasy ( Read more... )

14. Mus of Kerbridge, Paul Kidd
A shame that this book didn't get spun into a series. This could have, in my opinion, matched the NIMH or Redwall books in their mystical animals/kemono feel. You've especially gotta love Mus himself, who as a mouse is as clever as any of his kind, yet still the innocent that we'd expect him to be.

15. Sir ( Read more... )

Meant to catalog these two for well over a week now, but got sidetracked for one reason or another. Anyway, here goes:

12. Peter and the Starcatchers, Dave Barry and Ridley PearsonI have to admit, I was less than thrilled to hear that one of my favorite authors (Barry) had fallen prey to the sway of Eisner-era Disney and trying to squeeze some ( Read more... )

I finished this book about a week ago, but just really haven't had much to talk about it. Since I read the original language version, I'm just going to point you to the translated edition, here.

11. Shipwrecks by Yoshimura AkiraFrom what I understand, this is the first of his books to be translated in English. I happen to have the original ( Read more... )

Finally, a newspaper known for reliable reporting and undisputed straightforwardness has arrived in DC. And about damn time, too.

Yes, folks - The Onion now has a weekly print edition for Washington DC. ^_ ( Read more... )

10. Secret Sanction by Brian Haig.

After that last book, yup, I turned back to the adventures of my favorite Army smartass attorney. Happy.

( Amazon's synopsis of the book )

9. Telegraph Days by Larry McMurtry ( Read more... )