The Darkness That Comes Before – R. Scott Bakker
I first read The Darkness That Comes Before a couple years ago and really liked it my local library didn’t carry it and I wanted to read all three books in the trilogy (The Darkness That Comes Before, The Warrior Prophet, The Thousandfold Thought) in order to [...]
Archive for December, 2008
Book Review : The Darkness That Comes Before
December 28th, 2008
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The Christmas Truce
December 24th, 2008
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During World War I, troops on both sides spontaneously stopped fighting on Dec 24 1914 in what would become known as the Christmas truce:
The truce began on Christmas Eve, December 24, 1914, when German troops began decorating the area around their trenches in the region of Ypres, Belgium, for Christmas. They began by placing candles [...]
Please excuse the mess
December 20th, 2008
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OK, I think that I’ve managed to get everything back up and running. It all looks different bu I’m pretty happy with the layout. Something got HOSED with the RSS feed though so if you subscribe via a feedreader (and you really should, some of this stuff is pure genius:) ) I would re-subscribe. Here’s [...]
2008 In Review : Best Books
December 15th, 2008
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At the beginning of 2008, one of my goals was to read 50 books. I didn’t actually make it, I only got around 40 some books finished. I did start using LibraryThing to track my books which I have really come to love. Even though I didn’t make my goal of 50 books this year, [...]
The 999 Challenge at LibraryThing
December 3rd, 2008
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This week I decided to join in the 999 Challenge at Library Thing. The challenge is to read 9 books in 9 different categories in 2009. That’s a total of 81 books over the course of a year. I was really kind of leery about this one because as it stands, I don’t think I [...]
The Interwebz Move Fast
December 2nd, 2008
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Yesterday morning I came across a tweet mentioning that the Cincinnati Zoo was pairing up with the Creation Museum. I was getting ready to express my outrage and while I was thinking about what to write, others took dramatic action.
Needless to say, the Zoo is no longer offering tickets to the Creation Museum. I guess [...]
