Monthly Archive: July 2007
I live near Houston, and anything to do with NASA makes the headlines here (when there are no hurricanes or Enrons to distract us). My father used to chase Apollo rocket stages down in...
Ulitmate Kudos: An exciting ending to a classic series Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is an excellent end to an extraordinary series. Picking up with the search for the Horcruxes that Voldemort locked...
5 stars: Fast-paced ride in a new YA Horror series; winner of the 2006 IPPY for Horror We killed the retarded boy. He took his own life, but we killed him just the same....
The Lost Chronicles, Volume II Great fantasy, great continuation after reading the first volume Dragons of the Highlord Skies is a great fantasy novel; as my friend Jen commented on my review of the...
The History Channel’s new show, Human Weapon, combines three things I enjoy: martial arts, history and physics. The show takes Jason Chambers, a Mixed Martial Arts fighter, and Bill Duff, a wrestler and former...
The Internet is teeming this week with stories of Harry Potter spoilers, Harry Potter predictions, even claims that Harry Potter has not influenced literacy (a claim eloquently refuted by my friend Paul Levinson). While...
My novel, Dusk Before the Dawn, is now available at The Bleep Store. The Bleep Store is brought to you by the same folks who produced the classic movie, What the Bleep Do We...
The Lost Chronicles Volume 1 3 stars: A nice read, but needs intro summary and a couple of plot problems fixed Even though I have read many of R.A. Salvatore’s novels (the other Wizards...
My novel, Dusk Before the Dawn, has characters whose daily rituals involve martial arts training. My son and I trained and studied Soo Bahk Do Moo Duk Kwan (a Korean martial art) for five...
Ultimate Kudos: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and deservedly so World War II has always held a fascination for me: the global scale, the impact on world politics and powers of today, the coming...