Posted on April 30, 2008 by Chris
My reading seems to have sloooooooowed down at the end of April, but I ended the month with an awesome book that I think everyone should read if you haven’t already - Here, There Be Dragons by James A. Owen. It’s book one in the Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica and there’s not much not [...]
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Posted on April 28, 2008 by Chris
I’m thinking that I’m probably one of the last people signed up for Dewey’s Weekly Geeks to actually do my week 1 post, but what matters is that I’m actually doing it! This first week’s geek-out was to find a few blogs out of the participants that you weren’t familiar with and familiarize yourself with [...]
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Posted on April 25, 2008 by Chris
I’m loving the fact that Spring is finally here. My reading tends to increase in the Spring big time due to my love of reading outside. I wrote about that awhile ago, but I’m too lazy to go into the archives and look for the post :p But since we’ve been renting, we have this [...]
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Posted on April 24, 2008 by Chris
I’m finding myself very pleasantly surprised that I threw caution to the wind and started my planned reading of the Narnia series. I don’t know what exactly was holding me back, I just never seemed to be in the mood for it. But I’m really enjoying them now! As most of you know, there’s two [...]
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Posted on April 22, 2008 by Chris
The first thing you notice about John Lawson’s The Raven is the size of it at just over 600 pages. This may scare some people, but if you’ve read Witch Ember, it’s prequel, you know you’re in for a treat. In my opinion Lawson could never be constrained to a 300 page book. His worlds [...]
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Posted on April 18, 2008 by Chris
I think I’m the last one to start reading this series but I’m so glad that I finally have. Not everyone is a huge fan of stories that take fairy tales out of their normal context and put them into a different one, but I’ve always enjoyed that. And that’s exactly what Fables is.
The basic [...]
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Posted on April 17, 2008 by Chris
Almost a year ago I had written a post asking what people’s favorite books were…what books had left the biggest impact on you, stuck with you…and Carl had mentioned Keith Miller’s The Book of Flying. So I added it onto my wishlist as I tend to have very similar reading tastes to his. I’ve just [...]
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Posted on April 16, 2008 by Chris
Now this may be the most unique challenge name I’ve ev
er heard, so how could I pass it up? :p And it’s just a really cool idea. Here it is, It’s hosted by Bottle of Shine. The challenge runs from May 1st through November 30th. You list 10 of your favorite books and submit the [...]
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Posted on April 15, 2008 by Chris
I’m thinking of switching back over to Google Reader. What’s everyone think? Like it better than what you used to use if you use it or not? Right now I use live bookmarks through Firefox and I really like it, but the problem is, I read so many blogs that it’s gotten a little out [...]
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Posted on April 12, 2008 by Chris
I got the long shift today. 13 hours. Fun. Not really. But it’s over now and I’m off tomorrow, so it’s all gravy baby. I can’t wait to just find another real job and have weekends off again. I like to be on schedule with the rest of the world…it makes life seem at least [...]
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