I finally got over my “Reader’s Block” today and conquered book #33 in my 50 book quest. I started The Great Deluge in July on unabridged audio book and was driving so much to Bonerama shows that I got through nearly three quarters of the book via CD. It was a twenty four disc set! [...]

I hope everyone was able to enjoy as much of a relaxing, yet productive weekend as I was. Right after work on Friday, I went to see The Simpsons Movie. The theater was pretty full and the crowd was entertaining. Though one of the biggest laughs for me came before the movie even started. Sitting [...]

From the Colbert Report last night: I had a doctor’s appointment this morning and I saw a chick carrying the book in the waiting room and she looked like she was only 1/4 of the way through. Seriously? Didn’t everyone finish it this weekend? I was done at 1:30pm on Sunday and that was only [...]

Although I haven’t been writing about the books I’ve been reading, I am still attempting to complete the goal of reading fifty books in a year. I finished #17 last night, so I am on pace to make it. I was looking at my “on the shelf” list at AllConsuming last week and I realized [...]

Academy Award Winners’ Movie Posters (The Illustrated History of Movies Through Posters Series; Vol. 3)) by Bruce Hershenson This was obviously a quick read, but in the spirit of my goal to watch all the Academy Award Best Picture winners, this illustrated history was interesting. I’m also an amateur movie poster collector so this appealed [...]

Natural Selection: A Novel by Dave Freedman I had Natural Selection written down in the back of my Moleskin on my list of “might be good, look for it sometime” books that I collect from people and around the web. It was checked out for a long time at my library but I eventually snagged [...]

The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town by John Grisham This non-fiction work by John Grisham tells the story of Ron Williamson, who was wrongly convicted of murder and sentenced to death. It is the story of this man’s life long struggle with serious mental illness and how the justice system failed [...]

Lisey’s Story by Stephen King I’m a bit behind my reading pace from last year, but this year has been my first foray into Stephen King and some of his books are a bit longer than my other fave authors. (As I type this, I can picture my copy of The Stand sitting on my [...]

The Last Cato: A Novel by Matilde Asensi I’m not sure how I ended up checking The Last Cato out from the library. I had a note in the back of the little notebook I carry around with a book-reading possibilities list about it from somewhere. It was listed as similar to The Da Vinci [...]

Cell: A Novel by Stephen King Its the end of the world as we know it and I don’t feel real good about using my cell phone anymore. I’ve only begun to get into the Stephen King catalog, but I had heard many good things about this new book, Cell so I originally picked it [...]