(The epic adventure continues) Genre: Fantasy – In this, the third book of the “A Song and Ice and Fire” series, Martin takes us on a rousing adventure covering many of the territories, islands, and venturing far north of the wall. This book is way to long to summarize in a short blog entry. Needless to say, hold on to
Read moreRejoice Nook readers! The darkness will no longer stop you from reading, A new version of the Nook Simple Touch Reader comes out in May with built in lighting so you can keep reading without bothering anyone else. Or finagling with those external lights that 1. Were not really made for the Nook (despite what they say) and, 2. Need batteries. After
Read moreA couple of years ago, I was DEAD set AGAINST e-readers. I thought the world was ending and I made it perfectly clear that I would NEVER stop reading a “real book”. The smell and feel of a good book….sorry I will never get an e-reader. NEVER! Fast forward a year or so, and Lori bought me a Nook e-reader
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Genre: Thiller (I LOVE Nina!) At one time, I considered Perri O’Shaughnessy my favorite authors. In 2004, we took a day trip to Carmel, CA to meet them, get autographs, a picture (which they asked me to take off this blog a few years later) and hang around Carmel. It was a great day. Before I started writing this blog,
Read moreGenre: Fantasy (brutal, epic) “A Game of Thrones” is the first of five books in the “A Song of Ice and Fire” series. Galen at the Tracy, CA Barnes & Noble told me it was a great book (he was right) and that I really should expand beyond spies, killing and murder. With “Harry Potter” and “Pendragon” I had already
Read more(Barry Eisler rocks!) Sandra at the Tracy, CA Barnes & Noble held this up for me to see when I sat down in my favorite spot. I jumped up, took it, and spent 30 minutes or so playing with it. VERY nice! Having the old Nook; I found out that this one is much faster, has a full touch screen
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