I've started adding my books to my library on Google Books. You can take a look here: http://books.google.com/books?uid=655440628149996981Read more... )

I got a 25% off coupon in my e-mail for one item at a Chapters store, to "treat myself and my sweet love to savings." I went there after work today and bought Plague of Spells by Bruce Cordell, a Wizards of the Coast Forgotten Realms fantasy novel. Kind of the exact opposite of the intention of the sale, but it was a good deal. I already have a few ( Read more... )

I finally finished reading Alastair Reynolds' Absolution Gap. I bought it in February and it took me until now to finish it. The main problem is that the plot moved so slowly. Absolution Gap was a direct continuation of his previous book Redemption Ark and both were about the same length (662 and 646 respectively). The pace was very different, ( Read more... )

I finally read Fight Club in its original novel form.

The book is slightly different from the movie, although this is mostly in superficial ways except for the end. This major difference is that the protagonist/Tyler Durden doesn't blow up any buildings and ends up in a psychiatric ward. In this respect, I like the movie far better, and actually ( Read more... )

I bought a new book, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell. I had my eye on it for a while and, while the subject matter sounded interesting, I was also skeptical since it sounded too guru-y. It also seems to have been popular, and that didn't help with my immediate appraisal. However, after reading a favourable review ( Read more... )