UPDATE: Starting in 2013, I tracked the books and media I consumed throughout the year. Want to see what I was into in 2013? Click here. Want to know what I’ve been reading in 2014? Click here. I’m busy. Unfortunately, that means I can’t read as much as I would like. It kills me, actually. […]
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BOOK REVIEW: THE ARCTIC INCIDENT (Artemis Fowl 2 )
Someone’s been selling illegal fairy technology to goblins. The Lower Elements Police Reconnaissance Unit (LEPrecon) suspects Artemis Fowl, a 13-year old criminal mastermind, who previously cost the fairies of the Lower Elements a half-ton of gold and the embarrassment of being outwitted by a human. Goblins, fairies, LEPrecon and a teenage criminal mastermind? For readers […]
Review: The James Tiptree Jr. Award Anthology 2
If one of the reasons to read science fiction and fantasy is to hack your mind (the way listening to a new piece of music rewires your neurons), and, as some argue, you — like all humans — are really only wired for one thing: Wouldn’t you want to make it a point to read […]
Review: The True Meaning of Smekday
Here’s Gratuity “Tip” Tucci and the invading alien Boov, J.Lo, traveling from Pennsylvania to Florida then Arizona in a floating hatchback called “Slushious” with a cat named “Pig.” Wait. That’s a lot of information. What’s Smekday? The True Meaning of Smekday is a 400-page tour de hilarious force aimed at middle grade readers (9 to 12). I […]
Summer Reading 2010
Here’s a list of the fictional books we’ve been reading this summer: The True Meaning of Smekday by Adam Rex Carlos is Gonna Get It by Kevin Emmerson (assigned to Alejandro for 6th grade summer reading) Stargirl and Love, Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli (the former assigned to Alejandro for 6th grade summer reading) Norwegian Wood […]
Y! The Last Man – Volume 6
Here’s Yorick, Dr. Mann and 355 on their way to Australia, a side trip as they cross the ocean in search of Ampersand, who was kidnapped in San Francisco. Ampersand, Yorick’s capuchin helper monkey, holds the key to Yorick’s immunity from the plague that killed all Y-chromosome containing mammals. There’s a fair amount of drama on the […]