What has my attention this week? (Note: All Amazon links are affiliate links.) Book: The Last Boy by Jane Leavy Ever since watching 61*, Billy Crystal’s loving ode to baseball legends Maris and Mantle, I’ve been interested in their history. So when this one popped up a long time ago as a Kindle freebie, I had to grab […]
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Jan, 2016 6 Things I’m Watching, Eating, Using This Week
January 28, 2016 by 14 Comments
What has my attention this week? (Note: All Amazon links are affiliate links.) Book: The Broken Eye by Brent Weeks Brent Weeks has got to be my favorite living author. His fantasies are incredibly realized, epically epic, and peopled with dynamic, realistic, charismatic characters. I’ve been looking forward to this third installment in his Lightbringer series. I […]
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Jan, 2016 6 Things That Have My Attention This Week
January 21, 2016 by 20 Comments
What has my attention this week? Reading: On Guard: Defending Your Faith with Reason and Precision by William Lane Craig Reader Garrett Amerson recommended this one to me last summer after seeing I was reading the similar End of Our Exploring by Matthew Lee Anderson. And I’m very glad he did recommend it! I’m only a couple […]
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Jan, 2016 6 Things I’m Reading, Listening To, and Using
January 14, 2016 by 10 Comments
What has my attention this week? (Note: All Amazon links are affiliate links.) Reading: Brave New World Revisited by Aldous Huxley I picked up Huxley’s classic dystopian utopia Brave New World as part of my ongoing pursuit of the classics (I’m actually into the “L” authors, but Brave New World was at a library I don’t often visit, so […]
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Jan, 2016 6 Things That Should Have Your Attention This Week
January 7, 2016 by 24 Comments
(Note: All Amazon links are affiliate links.) What has my attention this week? Book: The Firebird by Susanna Kearsley Writing buddy Holly Heisey put me onto Kearsley a year or two ago. She’s often touted as being a modern-day Daphne Du Maurier (of Rebecca fame), and I definitely recognize the (much gentler) touches of Du Maurier’s supernatural […]
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Dec, 2015 6 Things I’m Reading, Watching, Eating This Week
December 17, 2015 by 18 Comments
What has my attention this week? (Note: All Amazon links are affiliate links.) Reading: The Golden Bowl by Henry James This will be the last book in my exploration of James. I admit I’ve kind of been putting it off since it’s soooo stinking long. There are a lot of things I appreciate about James (namely, […]
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Dec, 2015 6 Things That Have My Attention This Week
December 10, 2015 by 21 Comments
What has my attention this week? (Note: All Amazon links are affiliate links.) Book: Taken by Dee Henderson I’m in “sequel” mode in my reading right now. Having just finished all the books in my Kindle library, I’m taking a few weeks to catch up on sequels before tackling the toppling pile of paperbacks in my […]
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Oct, 2015 6 Things That Have My Attention This Week
October 29, 2015 by 24 Comments
What has my attention this week? Note: All Amazon links are affiliate links. Book: Deephaven by Sarah Orne Jewett I was debating reading this book (Jewett was on my list of classic authors to pursue), since I couldn’t quite make out from the descriptions if it was a novel. I went ahead with it, and I […]
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Oct, 2015 6 Things I’m Reading, Watching, Eating This Week
October 22, 2015 by 30 Comments
What has my attention this week? (Note: All Amazon links are affiliate links.) Book: The Truelove by Patrick O’Brian My absolute, no-question, 100% favorite author? Patrick O’Brian. His nautical tales of the Napoleonic war, featuring odd couple Captain Jack Aubrey and Dr. Stephen Maturin, are beyond brilliant. His historicity is perfect, and he has mastered the ability […]
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Oct, 2015 6 Things That Should Have Your Attention This Week
October 15, 2015 by 12 Comments
What has my attention this week? (Note: All Amazon links are affiliate links.) Reading: Order of the Stick Comic by Rich Burlew Years back, someone on Twitter recommended this web comic to me, and I’ve been hooked ever since. It’s a fun, trope-ridden fantasy romp that always makes me laugh with its inside references to the […]
