smokingpen | March 2, 2009
Kim Harrison is, perhaps, one of my more favorite authors. The thing, though, isn’t that I enjoy her writing but I think she needs top expand what she is doing. With that said, I am somewhat excited that she is publishing a new book for YA’s. I look forward to reading it and now that [...]
smokingpen | February 25, 2009
Tobias Buckell updated his blog with a post dealing with the lawless elite. These are (often) the protagonists in action movies that get away with a lot. Think John McClane from Die Hard or Martin Riggs from Lethal Weapon or (more recently) Bryan Mills from Taken or a whole host of other characters from movies [...]
smokingpen | February 10, 2009
I sat down yesterday and started to write a review of Cory Doctorow’s Little Brother. Truth told, I don’t think the book is worth the money. Definitely not from a hard bound, pay out the nose, expense. It came across as too perfect and too much a community project for me to really enjoy and [...]
smokingpen | January 19, 2009
Since finishing college I’ve spent a lot of time a) reading and b) applying for jobs. The job front had some positive movement over the past few days, and more positive movement this morning. However, on the reading front I’ve gone through John Zakour’s The Flaxen Femme Fatale, Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book, Ally Carter’s [...]
smokingpen | January 5, 2009
Well, it is January 5, 2009 and I am still jobless. I did finish reading Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book last night and started I’d Tell You I Love You, But Then I’d Have to Kill You by Ally Carter. The first book was amazing and I could see someone making a movie out of [...]
smokingpen | January 2, 2009
So, a little over a month ago I walked into Borders and purchased a copy of John Zakour’s The Flaxen Femme Fatale. Unfortunately, my priority at the time was to finishing up coursework at school and as a result it got set aside with the highest post-college-course-work reading priority of all the books I have [...]
smokingpen | November 11, 2008
For those that have never read my reviews of John Zakour’s books (Plutonium Blonde, Doomsday Brunette, Radioactive Redhead, Frost-Haired Vixen, and Blue-Haired Bombshell). Heck, I even interviewed the author. This is a writer I actually enjoy reading and even though I have (as yet) not gotten back to Frost-Haired Vixen (I promised to give it [...]
smokingpen | October 27, 2008
According to this article Tony Hillerman died. Hillerman is the writer of a bunch of mystery books set on the Native American reservations. My parents really liked reading him, especially since they moved to southwestern Colorado near the Ute Reservation and working on the Navajo Reservation in Arizona with the LDS church. On the sad [...]
