Feeling: chipperJust a quick note because I published it as a page.. I’ve posted my complete reading list over the past few years (well not quite complete but whatever I can remember) over at my blog – The Reading List 2010 Go over, tell me what you like, what you dislike, suggest books for me to [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Fun Reads'
My Terry Pratchett Obsession, Reading and TV
April 4th, 2010 5 Comments
Feeling: chipper(Warning: A lot of links in this post. Proceed at the peril of your own time. Or someone else’s if that rocks your boat ) So I finished Jingo, book 21 of the Discworld series by Terry Pratchett. It’s my 3rd book in from the series in 2 weeks (Pyramids and Unseen Academicals. I am [...]
Tags: big-bang-theory · Books · comedy · Comics · Devanshi · Discworld · fantasy · Humour · ipad · Jingo · nerd · Obsession · rachel-mcadams · Terry-Pratchett · the-time-travellers-wife · the-yiddishi-policemens -union · Unseen Academicals
Mr. Penumbra’s Twenty-Four-Hour Book Store – A short story
June 16th, 2009 4 Comments
Feeling: blank Listening to: Metallica – Master of PuppetsRead a trippy short story recently – Mr. Penumbra’s Twenty-Four-Hour Book Store. It is a short science fiction-fantasy about, hmm, Books The story is written in a nice easy style at a good pace. It features takes on the recession, layoffs, google and other topics with a hint of geek [...]
Tags: Science Fiction · short-story · story
Book Review: The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps, Edited by Otto Penzler
July 22nd, 2008 Comments Off
During the Great Depression, many authors wrote stories at a penny a word to make ends meet. Some of these authors wrote up to a million words a year, usually in the form of detective stories, mysteries and thrillers. A lot of these stories, featuring smart, cynical but brave detectives, were first printed in [...]
Tags: black lizard · Captain Jerry Frost · Cornell Woolrich · dames · Dashiell Hammett · detectives · Erle Stanley Gardner · fiction · heroes · Phillipe Marlowe · pulp · pulp fiction · Raymond Chandler · Sam Spade · villains
Book Review: Crecent Garden
February 20th, 2008 Comments Off
Crescent Garden is written by Christopher Love and is the first book published by Evermore Books. As the tag line says, “A novel of New Orleans, the book is set entirely in New Orleans. Love creates a very tightly written book with the story taking place over 3 days just before Mardi Gras in New [...]
Tags: book · christopher-love · crecent-garden · mystery_novels · novel · Review
MacBook Air Comparison
January 22nd, 2008 Comments Off
Feeling: amused Listening to: Nirvana – StainWell the MacBook Air has been released by Apple. I think it is a beautiful machine but the specifications of the system sucks. And it’s freaking expensive. I know I wont be getting it anytime However, I came across an awesome pic which does a feature comparison of the MacBook Air to [...]
Tags: apple · c64 · commodore-64 · comparison · macbook-air