Category Archive: Books

Jan 10

The Books Read in 2012

I love reading.  This shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone who knows me or knows anyone who is a writer. Back in January of 2012, I came up with the brilliant idea to record every book I read in the year.  I wanted to see how much I could devour.  At the start, I …

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Sep 05

The Chicon Haul

The Hammer and the Blade

Go to a con, come back with books.  It was pretty inevitable. The Dealer’s Room at Chicon was a pretty cool place.  Imagine this – an enormous room full of books, media, artwork, and clothing galore.  In the attached room of equal size was an area filled with classic arcade games and full-sized Battletech pods.  …

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Aug 20

My First eBook

iBooks

This past week marked my first ever Cover-to-Cover reading of an eBook.  Initial impressions are about as I expected plus one major thing that I didn’t really count on. First off, the book I read – The Black God’s War by Moses Siregar – was a good book.  I enjoyed it so none of what follows …

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May 21

The Book Stack

So how’s things? Over here, busy is the word.  The school year just ended and there’s only four weeks of training before Grandmas Marathon.  What little writing I’ve done has been world building for the next novel and fine tuning a query letter. So, lacking any actual content, here’s the stack of books waiting for …

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