Category: Books

2012 Reading Challenge Morgan has read 0 books toward a goal of 100 books. hide 0 of 100 (0%) view books 100 books? Failure is always an option.

So far, I have one complaint about the Kindle Fire: the power button is on the bottom, right about where my fingers rest if I’m holding it to read a book. Fortunately if I turn it upside-down the text rights itself. Spotify works like a charm. It’s much better than it was on the iPod [...]

Guys.. I don’t know… do I get a Kindle Fire (which is more than I need and probably does a lot of things I don’t want) because it’s new and will probably become “the standard” pretty fast, or do I get a regular ol’ “I just want to read a damn book” Kindle. If you [...]

I was checking out some true crime books on Amazon and noticed a disturbing trend in the reviews…. there are a lot of people out there who rated books lower than they might have because of the use of British slang and terminology. “The language was a little too British for me so I took [...]

Out of 460 challenges as reported to the Office for Intellectual Freedom 1. “TTYL; TTFN; L8R, G8R (series), by Lauren Myracle Reasons: Nudity, Sexually Explicit, Offensive Language, Unsuited to Age Group, Drugs (I just looked these books up and saw this: written entirely in text-message format. That, right there is reason enough to ban a [...]

Read. Specifically, spend several days reading The Alienist, followed immediately by The Angel of Darkness, and then go right into The Cabinet of Curiosities. All three are set in New York City. The Alienist is in 1896, Angel of Darkness is 1897, and Cabinet of Curiosities involves a case that started in the 1870s or [...]

Pardoner’s Tale and Ace of Wands keep turning up on pirate sites. I have mixed feelings about this. One is “yay, people want to read my stuff.” The other is “I could really use that dollar.” I feel hypocritical complaining about it though because if someone said to me “Can I take your ebook and [...]

Dear SyFy, If you’re serious about creating an American version of Being Human, do yourselves a favour. HIRE ME as a writer. I am not joking. With me on your staff you’d actually have a pretty decent chance of putting something good out there. I’m talking good enough to rival the original. Trust me, I’ve [...]

Each year, the ALA’s Office for Intellectual Freedom records hundreds of attempts by individuals and groups to have books removed from libraries shelves and from classrooms. According to the Office for Intellectual Freedom, at least 42 of the Radcliffe Publishing Course Top 100 Novels of the 20th Century have been the target of ban attempts. [...]