Posted in Book Reviews, tagged books on November 2, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Books I read in October:
72. Lost Paradise: From Mutiny on the Bounty to a Modern-Day Legacy of Sexual Mayhem, the Dark Secrets of Pitcairn Island Revealed by Kathy Marks
73. One Continuous Mistake: Four Noble Truths for Writers by Gail Sher74. The Silver Chair by C.S. Lewis (R)
75. The Day of a Buddhist Practitioner by Bokar Rinpoche (R)
76. The Squire’s Tale [...]
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I first read Ursula K. LeGuin as a child, when I discovered the Earthsea books, and I still have the same three paperbacks I read before the age of twelve, the Bantam editions with the mostly grey covers and the little woodcut drawings at the head of each chapter. I’ve been reading LeGuin for most of my [...]
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Posted in Book Reviews, tagged Links, severus snape on April 17, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Do you read Head Butler? I get his recommendations by email. This morning I read yesterday’s offering and thought, “That’s Severus Snape all over”. Read his review of Teacher of the Year by Lawrence Meyers–pay special attention to the excerpt from the book–and tell me that’s not a real-life Snape in the classroom.
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Seven books a month seems to be my average reading pace–not quite two books a week.
The UFO Phenomenon by John Michael Greer: I’m not sure what to say about this book. Greer is one of the best occult writers out there, a solid researcher who checks his facts as well as one of the [...]
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Courtesy of Arts & Letters Daily, here’s a review of the Twilight series that almost made me want to read it. I’m not sure if I agree with the reviewer, but it made for fascinating reading.
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I don’t know about anybody else, but my Amazon recommendations are not often very useful to me. I used to be a great reader of fantasy and science fiction, for example; now, however, my tastes are very limited, and I follow only a few authors. I have no idea why, when I buy a new [...]
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