The funniest masterpiece I have ever read
Ultimate Kudos: Lamb by Christopher Moore I occasionally snicker when reading, often smile. But rarely do I bust out laughing. I did it once reading the drill sergeant scene in John Scalzi’s Old Man’s...
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Nominated for the AmazonClicks.com Reader’s Choice Award
Since it is a British web site, it was undoubtedly one of the five and a half readers of my novel in the UK, but someone nominated my novel for the AmazonClicks.com Reader’s Choice...
bookrev: Mucho Mojo by Joe R. Lansdale
The novel is one of a series featuring Hap Collins and Leonard Pine, a white day laborer and a black gay man who end up solving gruesome and violent crimes in East Texas. Both...
bookrev: Tengu by John Donohue
Tengu is the third novel in John Donohue’s series of Connor Burke: anthropologist, martial arts student and instructor. It is an excellently paced read, tough to put down, and describes the martial arts involved...
We’ll all have smartphones soon
A confluence (or is it a convergence or a singularity or one of those other large impressive words) of events in the wireless world point toward yet another technological inflection point. While most people...
Grasping for the Wind’s SF and Fantasy book review list
John Ottinger is updating his list of blogs with book reviews. Click on Grasping for the Wind in the list below if you have a site that you think is missing from his list...
book notes: The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
The Lightning Thief is book one in the Percy Jackson series by Rick Riordan. Writing for both the adult and young adult (YA) successfully is difficult, though many authors are trying to cross that...
bookrev: Old Frame Chen Family Taijiquan by Mark Chen
Since it is reputably the most practiced form of Taijiquan, finding English language books on Yang style Taijiquan is pretty straightforward; there are several, particularly by Dr. Yang, Jwing-ming that one can refer to....
Bruce Lee, Nokia N96 and PingPong
The title says it all. ‘Scuse me, I gotta go practice with my own ‘chuks! Related posts: No related posts.
The “Last Firsts” list
Our son is a senior in high school, his sister has long since graduated college and is, of course, taking the world by storm. As we look forward a different life, to the changes...