Writer, Dabbler In Things
More into the swing of things this month. While I tried a few things out that weren’t to my taste, I got through a fair bit: READThe Adventurers Guild: Twilight of the Elves – Zack Loran Clark and Nick EliopulosThe Trials of Apollo: The Hidden Oracle – Rick RiordanThe Adventurers Guild: Night of Dangers – … Read more
June was no less busy for the household than previous isolation months had been, and in some ways was even more busy. On top of the usual busyness of taking care of household, shopping and cooking duties (while ensuring that my wife had the time and space needed for all her online teaching, and my … Read more
There may be no genre I enjoy as much, but can be so disappointed by, as science fiction. Any genre has its good and bad, of course, but I find the best science fiction of certain stripes really strikes a chord with me–Blade Runner is my favourite movie–while the worst of it is particularly bad. … Read more
I’d heard the name Josh Gondelman for years off and on, but particularly recently on various comedy podcasts I started seeking out as some levity to working in a news environment where I hear close to four hours of (almost entirely negative, often demoralizing) news a day. And lately I’ve heard his name more often, … Read more
As I’m having some sporadic issues uploading photos–and honestly it’s probably close to as fast for me to just type this up anyway–I’m trying a new approach with this list and writing it out here instead of posting a photo of my phone’s screen shot that takes a few steps to get onto here anyway. … Read more
I like coming across new words in the material I read. While it can get a bit tiring at times to have to look up, say, a few words a page (*clears throat loudly and looks pointedly at Lovecraft*), it’s always good to learn new things, and words are included. What I don’t like is … Read more
The Adventurers Guild is one of those books where I’d expected one thing–not so much a judging a book by its cover, per se, but more like judging it by the genre (young reader’s fantasy… roger that)–but it turned out to be way more than I’d thought it would be. The story itself is solid.Everyone … Read more
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo seems to be pretty divisive. Either you like it or you don’t. After making a solid go of it and getting pretty deep into the book, I ended up being in the latter category, just from Larsson’s style, which didn’t jibe with me enough that it finally bumped me … Read more
With the world flipped upside down lately, I totally forgot to post my read books for March at the turn of the calendar page, so here’s the list: The Lisa Cron book comes very highly recommended, and I stuck with it until about half-way through, where its approach to creating stories that have organic, dramatic … Read more
In a shrewd and thoughtful move, House of Anansi Press is currently doing a “Reading Apart Together” promotion where if you buy any ebook for yourself, they’ll send another copy of the same ebook to someone else you choose. While I hadn’t taken a look at their catalogue before, they have a very diverse range … Read more