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This book opens with one of the great lines. “There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.”
It’s also based on a ship, unsurprisingly called The Dawn Treader. I’ve always liked sea-faring books and I think this book has something to do with that. Just like I think [...]
The potential for a date night with my wife does not come along very often. When it does, we like to live it up to the fullest.
Take this past Friday, for an example. We found ourselves temporarily childless and with the world as our oyster. The itinerary:
-Get Liam fed-Get Kim cheese-Go to [...]
A rant.
Not entirely language or age appropriate.
Enjoy.
Whenever I read a book by Steven Erickson, I do so with the awareness that he is an anthropologist by training and I always worry that his books are going to contain extremely rich but extremely dry history that I’ll have to fight through. I’m always happy to find his world’s history and the depth [...]
One of my favourite series in Fantasy is the Serpentwar saga by Raymond E. Feist. It is set on Midkemia, just like all the other Feist books in this very long line of stories. King of Foxes mentioned some characters from the Serpentwar saga and that may have been its best moment. [...]
So, I was unsuccessful in completing my goal of 50 books last year.
Big deal, you say. Well, I don’t like failing at things I genuinely try at. Last year’s 50-book goal was something I took very seriously for the first four months. Granted, it became obvious very soon that I [...]
Despite giving up on my books for the year, I made it more than halfway. 26, to be exact, with jPod finishing up 2006’s reading.
This year, I plan on doing it again. Stay tuned for a more in-depth post about this very thing.
