Sunshine is one of my all-time favorite movies. So is 28 Days Later. Besides the creepy-coolness of Cillian Murphy, those two films have one thing in common – Alex Garland. Garland wrote the screenplays for both movies and therefore became one of my favorite writers by default. While Garland’s most acclaimed novel may be The Beach, I stumbled upon The Coma by happenstance at my local library and took it as a sign that it should be the next book that I checked out and […]
All the wonderful velocity of thought
As you may be aware, the American cinematic classic Clueless is based on Jane Austen’s Emma. Being a sensible man of well-refined tastes, I enjoy Clueless very much. Therefore, I gave the source material a chance. Jane Austen’s classic story of fancy English people falling in and out of love was first published in 1815. Since it is set two centuries ago, the social structures, concerns, and mores in the novel are much different than those that we live with today. While it can take […]
“The Young Adventurers take a lot of killing.”
Secret Adversary is my first foray into Agatha Christie books. My only regret is that I didn’t discover Ms. Christie sooner. While it is nearly a century old, the book is (relatively) quickly paced, entertaining, and witty. Plotwise, it had me guessing until the very end! Since it was written in 1922, there is no copyright on the book and therefore you can legally download it for free. Although, for CBR purposes, consider buying a paperback version! Adversary revolves around a witty couple of members […]
How to Make it Rain: A Self-Published Self-Publishing Book
Reading is fun! We all know that – it’s why we’re participating in the Cannonball Read. A few of us love reading and want to switch seats – we have decided that we’d like to try to tell stories of our own. In the past, I’ve tip-toed around submitting books and comics to traditional publishers. I’ve also thought about self-publishing, since it’s so much easier than it used to be. But publishing is one thing; making money from publishing is another. After writing a couple […]
If everything were perfect and your house were set up exactly the way you want it, what would it look like?
My family sold our house earlier this month, and packing has been a nightmare. Despite giving away and selling most of our books, DVDs, and clothes, it still felt like we had way too much stuff for the size of our family. Part of it was that we had lived in the house for several years so things naturally accumulated. Part of it was having a six-month old baby. (Babies come thousands of items, most of them on the floor.) Part of it was that […]
Since I may (or may not!) work in politics, politically-related biographies are of great interest to me. It can be fun to pull back the curtain and see how administrations or offices are really run, or try and get an insider’s perspective on major events. (Both Bill Clinton’s My Life and George W. Bush’s Decision Points are great. I recommend the audiobook version of My Life since President Clinton himself reads it.) Former White House Press Secretary Dana Perino recently wrote And the Good News […]
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