Continuing our discussion of our April Book of the Month Club selection - Annihilation: vanderworld.com writes: "I wouldn’t normally comment, but…the next two novels are about 100,000 words each, which complicates things, and are *completely separate novels* in their own right, that interlock with Annihilation…they do not pick up the story right after the events in…
April 7, 2014: Our Book of the Month Club reconvenes! Let’s discuss Annihilation! And continuing our Stargate: Atlantis rewatch!
A team of four women are are set out to explore a mysterious region known as Area X. By all accounts, they are the twelfth group to journey into the bizarre amazon-like territory. All of the previous expeditions have ended badly, marked by murders, suicides, disappearances, and, in the case of the eleventh, the inexplicable return…
April 6, 2014: Vote for our next Book of the Month Club selection! Continuing our Stargate: Atlantis watch/rewatch – The Japanese Girlfriend Edition!
Cast your vote for our June Book of the Month Club pick! We've got a nice, wide-ranging selection this month: COLDBROOK by Tim Lebbon Coldbrook is a secret laboratory located deep in Appalachian Mountains. Its scientists had achieved the impossible: a gateway to a new world. Theirs was to be the greatest discovery in the…
April 5, 2014: A Book of the Month Club Reminder! Resuming our Stargate: Atlantis season 5 rewatch with…Search and Rescue!
A reminder to all that our book club reconvenes this Monday (April 7th) for a discussion on our April BOTMC pick: Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer. You can always check this blog's right sidebar for info on our upcoming Book of the Month club reads (including our May selection: The Rich and the Dead by Liv…
March 30, 2014: Happy Birthday, Batman!
The caped crusader is 75! Let's celebrate the big day with some of Batman's most memorable covers... Does that skunk contain a kryptonite bomb? The superboys, always comparing the size of their…uh…diamonds. You can tell they've hit rock bottom by the little hobo sack on sticks they're carrying. While no actual crime has been committed,…
March 17, 2014: May Book of the Month Club poll results! Ultimate Personality Quiz final results! The results of my random thoughts recorded on this blog! And results of Lulu sunning herself just a little too long!
Ooh, it was a nail biter. Our May Book of the Month Club pick came down to the very last vote. The results: The winner: The Rich and the Dead by Liv Sepctor. Welcome to Star Island, where Miami’s wealthiest residents lead private lives behind the tall gates of their sprawling mansions. It’s a blissful…
March 16, 2014: My February Reading List – Capsule Reviews!
Books I read last month... Star Road - Matthew Costello and Rick Hautala A former rebel leader, now working for the World Council, is tasked with traveling to a distant world and offering his former cohorts clemency and, hopefully, an end to their protracted rebellion. To get there, however, he must ride the mysterious Star Road.…
March 13, 2014: Genre News! SF, Fantasy, television, and literature!
I received the following news link from about two dozen sources today: Syfy network shifts away from broad dramas and B-movies to its genre roots as it attempts to find the next "The Walking Dead" or "Game of Thrones." Apparently, SyFy is looking to produce a space opera, the SF equivalent of The Walking Dead and Game…
March 9, 2014: Vote for our May Book of the Month Club selection!
Here are the nominees: THE MEMORY OF SKY (Robert Reed) Paperback, 624 pages. Diamond is an odd little boy, a seemingly fragile child—who proves to be anything but. An epic story begins when he steps into the world his parents have so carefully kept him from, a world where gigantic trees each house thousands of humans…
March 2014: Eyes! Akemi flexes her culinary muscles! And a little more Book of the Month Club discussion!
This morning, on the drive back home from the farmers market, the conversation turned to eyes. According to Akemi, one of the instructors at her English language school: "Has eyes like Husky!". Clearly, them's some lovely eyes. But, apparently, they don't hold a candle to those of my writing partner. "Munyu Munyu's eyes [her nickname…
March 5, 2014: Updates on the dogs and recent news of note! Continuing our Book of the Month Club discussion!
Jelly's tests results are in and it's good news: a grade 2 low-malignancy tumor with clean margins. Apparently, that means the chances of a recurrence are low and that the operation was successful in removing all of the malignant tissue. She's still pretty spry for 15. Pictured above, Jelly is thrilled to hear it. Bubba,…
March 4, 2014: News of Note! Continuing our Book of the Month Club discussion!
The results are in. And they're shocking! Apparently, the meat and cheese diet is bad for you: Meat, cheese diet study Also, this just in! Sitting around all day is bad for your too: 'Brain Fog': Sitting for hours negatively impacting health... Also, angrier people are more likely to die of heart attacks: Angry people 'risking heart attacks'…
March 3, 2014: The Book of the Month Club reconvenes! Let’s discuss Terms of Enlistment!
After an all-too lengthy hiatus, our Book of the Month Club is back. Let me get the ball rolling by offering up my thoughts on this month's title... Terms of Enlistment by Marko Kloos The year is 2108, and the North American Commonwealth is bursting at the seams. For welfare rats like Andrew Grayson, there are…
March 2, 2014: Those Personality Quiz Results! Bookly matters!
A mere 125+ of you have taken the ultimate Personality Quiz I uploaded yesterday (March 1, 2014: Yet another personality quiz!). Those of you have taken the time can attest to the fact that the results are uncannily accurate. Nay, eerily so! The results so far… Roughly one third of those who took the quiz ended…
February 16, 2014: My January Reading List – Capsule Reviews! The mystery of the orange oatmeal solved! Stargate Atlantis rewatch! Hot Zone!
In my bid to beat 2013's paltry 70-something "books read" total, I've re-established this blog's Book of the Month Club and redoubled my own reading efforts. Now I'm sure that, next to reading a good book, there's nothing many of you bibliophiles appreciate more than a good recommendation. A nd so, in keeping with yet…