I recently checked out a couple classics from the library in my continued quest to become “well-read.” The first one I finished was Aldous Huxley’s futuristic tale of utopia.
The first two chapters of this book were perhaps the most chilling and repulsive visions of genetic culling I’ve ever read (and I’ve read 1984 and A [...]

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I finished reading this over the weekend, but have been so busy getting ready for GenCon I was afraid I might not get to posting my thoughts. I considered breaking it up into parts, but due to time constraints, I’m just going to say it all today.
This book heralds a new format for Forgotten Realms [...]

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I don’t normally participate in memes, but I’ve seen this one on quite a few author blogs and it’s definitely topical.
1. According to my mother, I came home after the first day of kindergarten, plopped down on the couch with a book, and started to cry after only a few moments of flipping through pages. [...]

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In my continued quest to read the classics, I next chose Ursula K. Le Guin’s Earthsea books. Ms. Le Guin is a local author (she lives somewhere just across the river from me) and the first two books of the Earthsea Cycle–Wizard of Earthsea and Tombs of Atuan–were made into a miniseries on the SciFi [...]

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I finished this book on Sunday. “Plowed” would be a better word. After reading a chapter a night–and having to restrain myself from more so I could get enough sleep to avoid turning into a zombie at work–I had the opportunity to indulge myself Sunday afternoon. And I took advantage.
For those not familiar with the [...]

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