While reading the online mussing of one of my favorite authors, Orson Scott Card, he mentions a great way to get your kids to read a book that he recommends,
Or you can slip it to a twelve-year-old or ten-year-old, after you’ve read it yourself, and say, “I think you’re old enough to read this now.” [...]
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How to Get Your Kids to Read
October 25, 2006In the Company of Ogres
October 24, 2006I just finished a new novel by A. Lee Martinez titled In the Company of Ogres. In one of my not so typical (at least since having kids) undertakings, I finished this book in one day. Martinez follows in the Robert Aspin Myth Adventures style of fantasy writing by combing extreme absurdity, whimsical comedy, complete [...]
The Legends of Dune
May 15, 2006I recently finished listening to all three books in The Legends of Dune, a prequel to the Dune series. It actually took a long time to listen to these books (almost 4 months). Not only are they exceeding long, but they are extremely heavy. By that I mean, that the prose is thick, the stories [...]
Satoshi Kitamura, Great Children’s Author
March 3, 2006Satoshi Kitamura is one my children’s favorite authors. He has a series of board books that Sarah (and Ellie when she was Sarah’s age) wanted me to read over and over again. The series includes: Duck Is Dirty, Squirrel Is Hungry, and Bath-Time Boots. I would recommend that everyone with 1-2 years have at [...]
The Uplift War
January 20, 2006The Uplift War by David Brin is a great piece of classic science fiction. I just finished listening to this fantastic book and would recommend it to everyone. 4.5 stars.
The Uplift War is the third book in Brin’s awarding series, but unlike some series you can definately read them out of order. Some books are [...]
The Truth about Fairy Tales
November 17, 2005Is fantasy truer than real life? Can it enhance our view of the world in which we live? Does it offer us as adults the chance to break, albeit temporarily, our grip on reality and view the world from the idealistic perspective of a child? In many ways C. S. Lewis thought so. The following [...]
D&D at Your Local Library
August 30, 2005I ran across an article about Dungeons & Dragons while reading Wil Wheaton’s blog (yes, that Wil Wheaton). Anyway, it seems that Wizards of the Coast, the company that now owns Dungeons & Dragons, is sponsoring an after-school D&D program for libraries.
The Afternoon Adventure with DUNGEONS & DRAGONS program will include everything librarians need to [...]
Book Meme
June 24, 2005This is the first meme in which I have participated. Memes have basically become the Internet version of a chain-letter. I was not tagged by anyone, but have come across enough of these that I felt I should participate too.
Total number of books I’ve owned:
I probably own over 100 books, and by the time you [...]
The Precipice
February 14, 2005It has been quite a while since I have read (or listened to) a Ben Bova book. I just finished listening to the unabridged version of The Precipice. This version was read by multiple readers and was throughly enjoyable. While the characters in the books were fairly stereotypical, they all combined to tell a good [...]
Shadow of the Giant
January 15, 2005Shadow of the Giant, the fourth and potentially final book in the Bean Quartet, will be published in March of this year. If you would like to get a jump on reading it, Orson Scott Card has posted the first three chapters on his website.
While this will probably be the last of the Bean specific [...]
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