The Space Between, by Brenna Yovanoff Steve Jobs, by Walter Isaacson It should be no news to anyone here that I buy a lot of Apple products. This was an interesting read that highlighted the importance of Jobs’ very strong … Continue reading
REAMDE, by Neal Stephenson This was one of Neal Stephenson’s more immediately accessible books in a while (I thoroughly enjoyed Anathem but the opening clock-winding scene rivalled Bilbo’s birthday party for story-opening side-excursions). It’s a good read, although I found … Continue reading
Question: What would I do for your execrably advertised snack product? The silver lining to my team getting ousted early from the hockey playoffs is that I need no longer endure that ad. Each season, there’s always one annoying commercial, … Continue reading
I bought a 3-in-1 lens that clips onto my iPhone. It comes with a wide-angle, fish-eye and macro. It’s pretty neat. The fish-eye and wide-angle blur the edges of the photos a bit more than I’d like, but for $70 … Continue reading
He’s huge. This is what I mean when I occasionally refer to being “love mauled”.
A Discovery of Witches, by Deborah Harkness The premise of this book struck me as interesting: a smart, historian witch and a vampire who uses science to study magical creatures. I struggled with the slow pacing, however. I didn’t realize … Continue reading
So, yeah, the blogging’s been a little thin around here lately. Life sometimes gets in the way, but I’m back. For now, let’s catch up on the reading log, shall we? Ship Breaker, by Paolo Bacigalupi Award-winning dystopian YA, set … Continue reading
This is what’s become of all the work I did two weekends ago.
So a few weeks ago Apple released the iBooks Author tool to much fanfare, and then much backlash over their onerous license agreement, which basically stated that if you created a work with the tool, you could distribute it anywhere … Continue reading
The Kingdom of Gods, by N.K. Jemisin A fitting end to a trilogy I just adore. These books make me purr like Sieh. The Mistborn Trilogy, by Brandon Sanderson (Mistborn, The Well of Ascension, The Hero of Ages) The more … Continue reading