Category Archives: Books

Book Review – Blindsight – Peter Watts

Blindsight by Peter Watts My rating: 5 of 5 stars Smart, technical, mind blowing. I’ve always been a fan of first contact stories(Contact, Mote in God’s Eye). This one has a much different approach and quite a unique spin. It starts out a bit tough to read, but this is hard SciFi after all. I [...]

Sword of Truth – Conclusion

Just finished reading confessor.   A great ending to a great series.   While looking online for some quotes from the book, I came across the site for the TV show that will be starting this fall.    There is a trailer and it looks fairly decent for a WB type show.  http://www.legendoftheseeker.com/ The quote I was [...]

Being Frugal Leads to Reading?!?! Personal Book Challenge

Was reading a post about being your own butcher on the consumerist (way better than Freeganism)  and stumbled across this article about being thrifty in the post apocalyptic US. Few minutes later in the lunchroom saw the “No Country For Old Men” DVD and realized it was the same author.   Cool,  did a search and [...]

Scifi Book Club – The Sword and Laser

I heard about The Sword and Laser book club on the TWiT podcast and thought it would be cool to join up. The next book in the list is Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card. I am hoping to get through my current read in time. If you haven’t read Pandora’s Star and Judas Unchained, [...]