Tag Archives: Books

Book Review: Bones of the Moon by Jonathan Carroll 0

Bones of the Moon by Jonathan Carroll
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
2.5 Stars (wish we could do half stars)
I wanted to like this book more than I did, and the initial reviews and comments made me quite excited. I think I was not quite sure what I was getting into and at times [...]

The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman wins the Hugo 2

Tonight Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book takes home YET another award.  This time the HUGO.
That makes a Newberry and a Hugo for the same book.  Has anyone done that before?  I loved this book. It was magical and was a delight to read and a special treat to get to hear a piece of it [...]

Book Review: The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman 0

I decided to dive into the “His Dark Materials” trilogy after looking at them on my bookshelf for some time.  This is the book series, the writing, the characters, the plot, that Harry Potter wanted to be.
I am going to keep this relatively brief, as I think the whole series (after reading this and getting [...]

Cool bookworm article 0

Lifehacker (one of my favs) has a very cool article on Books – but of course, it is the Lifehacker take on being a bookworm.

Why the Kindle continues to baffle me 0

Ok – the title below is dumb – KindleGate – but the read is interesting on how unreasonable the methods of DRM and eBooks are and will continue to be.  DRM is making pirates out of all of us, just to use what we own.
KindleGate: Confusion Abounds Regarding Kindle Download Policy | Gear Diary.
Summary from the blog [...]