Title: Steppenwolf
Author: Herman Hesse
Number of Pages: 218
Genre: fiction
Book Number: 52

Review: A bizarre two days spent in the mind of a mad man. The book was equally brilliant and not.

Title: Three to Get Deadly [Stephanie Plum #3]
Author: Janet Evanovich
Number of Pages: 321
Genre: fiction, mystery
Book Number: 51

Review: More enjoyable than the first two, I think the series is starting to catch its stride. It made me laugh out loud and was good enough to read in one sitting.

Title: Two for the Dough [Stephanie Plum #2]
Author: Janet Evanovich
Number of Pages: 325
Genre: fiction, mystery
Book Number: 50

Review: The second installment in the Plum series was enjoyable enough. It has the usual markings of being an early in the series volume with promise of becoming so much more. The mystery was decent, the characters ( Read more... )

Title: The Burning Wire [Lincoln Rhyme #9]
Author: Jeffery Deaver
Number of Pages: 416
Genre: fiction, mystery
Book Number: 49

Review: I thought this book was excellent! The first time I sat down with it, I only had enough time to read the first few chapters (page 30 or so). The next time I picked up the book, it was to finish it. It was so ( Read more... )

Title: Peter, Paul, and Mary Magdalene: The Followers of Jesus in History and Legend
Author: Bart D. Ehrman
Number of Pages: 304
Genre: non-fiction, religion
Book Number: 48

Review: I learned all sorts of fun stuff that I was never told growing up in a Lutheran grade school. For instance, the apostles Peter and Paul didn't like each other and ( Read more... )

Invisibility cloak closer with flexible 'metamaterial' (BBC News)

I absolutely love reading about the latest breakthroughs in science in technology. I get especially excited when science fiction (a la Star Trek and Star Wars) becomes non-fiction.

In one of the articles I read about MetaFlex, the author highly recommended Physics of the ( Read more... )

Title: One for the Money [Stephanie Plum #1]
Author: Janet Evanovich
Number of Pages: 290
Genre: fiction, mystery
Book Number: 47

Review: This was a nice introduction to the series. I recently read Evanovich's Wicked Appetite and decided to give the Plum series a try after reading reviews by readers of both series. I definitely found Wicked ( Read more... )

Title: The Broken Window [Lincoln Rhyme #8]
Author: Jeffery Deaver
Number of Pages: 414
Genre: fiction, mystery
Book Number: 46

Review: This is one of those books that if you weren't already paranoid, you would be after reading it. While not a true crime novel, Deaver does his research and the information he uses to construct his plots (crimes ( Read more... )

Title: The Cold Moon [Lincoln Rhyme #7]
Author: Jeffery Deaver
Number of Pages: 416
Genre: fiction, mystery
Book Number: 45

Review: I stayed up until 3 AM to finish this one. It was almost worth it. An excellent book, though I really should have kept my mouth shut about satisfying endings, as I found this ending anything but ( Read more... )

Title: The Twelfth Card [Lincoln Rhyme #6]
Author: Jeffery Deaver
Number of Pages: 395
Genre: fiction, mystery
Book Number: 44

Review: What a satisfying ending! I won't give it away here, but there was a smile on my face when I turned the last page, and that is why I keep coming back to the Lincoln Rhyme series ( Read more... )