• Book Review

    Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

    Looking for a book about space, but you don't have "space" in your schedule to sit down and read a huge friggin' textbook? Let Neil deGrasse Tyson, this generation's Carl Sagan, be your guide through the cosmos. Want something even better? Have the author read it right to you! In…

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    The Exorcist (The Exorcist #1)

    This is one of those books that, when you finish it, you wonder if the good guys actually won. I had seen the film version a couple times before reading this book, but it had been years. So I really felt like I was going in fresh. Let's just say…

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    Flowers for Algernon

    I've heard about this book a lot, but somehow it's never really made it to my reading list. I suppose that's because I never really knew what it was about. But recently I was seeing it on a lot of top sci-fi book lists and I thought, hmm, I didn't…

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    The Stars My Destination

    I'm baaack! But at least I didn't have to wait forever while I created an alternate identity so as to find and get close to the ones I hate in an effort to ruin their lives and kill them... Whoa... sorry about that. Anyhow, this book is considered one of…

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    Of Mice and Men

    I’ve always been interested in reading John Steinbeck. In high school I had the option of reading The Grapes of Wrath or Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison. I chose poorly, as the Grail Knight would say. Anyway, I’m wandering through a Maui Friends of the Library bookshop and am…

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    The Silver Chair (The Chronicles of Narnia #4)

    I’m continuing my journey through The Chronic-WHAT?!-cles of Narnia in publication order. I know, I know. C.S. Lewis had a preferred reading order, but when I read a series for the first time, I like to read it in publication order. Leave me alone! Anyway, if you care at all…