Posts Tagged ‘ Books ’

Title: French Lessons Author: Peter Mayle Media: Paperback Date: July 2010 Rating: 10/10 A delightful collection of stories about eating and cooking in France. I picked this book up at Barnes & Nobel to read while in Frace, figuring that I ought to read something about the country that I was visiting. Very funny...
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Title: The Dark Knight Returns Author: Frank Miller Format: Collected graphic novel Date: July 24th – 25th, 2010 (Yes, only 2 days). Rating: 9/10
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Title: The Graveyard Book Author: Neil Gaiman Date: May-June 2010 Media: Audiobook Rating: 8/10 I very much enjoyed this book, even if I found myself drifting away to others now and then. I think the only issue I had was that, since this is intended as a young adult story, the discussions and characterization...
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Title: The Innocent Man Author: John Grisham Media: Audiobook Date: May – June 2010 Rating: 8/10 I like John Grisham stories, even if they do tend to run together after a while. This one is a bit different, as it is nonfiction. Here Grisham explains the history of a case in which two innocent...
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Went to Barnes and Noble with the wife tonight to try and find books on starting small businesses. Ugh, it all seems dreadfully complicated. We got a couple of books on the basics, such things as: do we even need to start a business to do what we have planned? The biggest question will...
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Title: Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom Author: Cory Doctorow Media: Free Audiobook (Seriously, go download it for yourself!) Date: May 2010 Rating: 9/10 Welcome to the magic kingdom. Life can be extended indefinitely, death can be cured, even to poorest of the poor live a life we would consider luxurious, “decaffeinated” crack...
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Title: Northlanders Book 1: Sven the Returned Author: Brian Wood Illustrator: Davide Gianfelice Format: Collected Comicbook Date: May 2010 Rating: 7/10 Northlanders: Sven the Returned is not an especially fun read, but it worth the time you put into it, especially if you pause while reading to experience the artwork. The comic tells the...
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Title: Retail Hell Author: Freeman Hall Media: Hardcover Date: April 2010 Rating: 6/10 Not exactly life changing or amazing, but a fun read. The wife picked this up a few months ago and I read a couple pages on the way home from Barnes and  Noble. It was fun enough that when I found...
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An interesting post from Wired on the ethics of correcting typos in eBooks.
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Title: Singularity Sky Author: Charles Stross Media: Audiobook Date: March 2010 Rating: 7/10 I enjoyed this book. Not so much a first contact as a getting-back-in-contact. A good story, but I need to read up more on time-light theory now. Oh, and I wish there had been a bit more about the Eschaton.
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The wife and I decided to gold childish and watch 101 Dalmations tonight. As usual, we caught all sorts of references that we missed as children. For example, the maid in 101 Dalmatians looks almost exactly like Mistress Merryweather from Sleeping Beauty. Which got me wondering if the voice actress was the same person...
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