Author Archive
Children of the Mind
Title: Children of the Mind Author: Orson Scott Card Mass Market Paperback: 370 pages Publisher: Tor Books; Reprint edition (June 1997) ISBN: 0812522397 This book disappointed me a bit – its too long on explanation and too short on story. The story line has tremendous potential, but the desire to close the series on a […]
September 9th, 2006 by alephnaught
Xenocide
Title: Xenocide Author: Orson Scott Card Mass Market Paperback: 592 pages Publisher: Tor Books; Reprint edition (August 1992) ISBN: 0812509250 This book was interesting but weaker than the rest. The thing that made the other books special, especially from a science fiction perspective, was the lack of explaination of why things worked the way they […]
August 27th, 2006 by alephnaught
Speaker for the Dead
Title: Speaker for the Dead Author: Orson Scott Card Mass Market Paperback: 416 pages Publisher: Tor Books; Reissue edition (August 15, 1994) ISBN: 0812550757 I’m on a roll – I’m reading all the Ender series by Orson Scott Card. I think this is the second best book of the series, after Ender’s Game, the first […]
August 23rd, 2006 by alephnaught
We had a good Saturday – new glasses and good Italian
I had my eyes checked a week ago Friday, so we started looking for new frames. I wanted smaller round frames because the lenses get too wide if the frames aren’t round, and the ones I have now hit my eye brows. We went to Eye Want on Milwaukee and found just what I wanted […]
August 13th, 2006 by alephnaught
Shadow of the Hegemon
Title: Shadow of the Hegemon Author: Orson Scott Card Mass Market Paperback: 464 pages Publisher: Tor Books; 1 Mass Mkt edition (December 9, 2001) ISBN: 0812565959 There are a bunch of books in this series. I bought a three book boxed set of the Ender’s Game, Ender’s Shadow, and Shadow of the Hegemon. This book […]
August 13th, 2006 by alephnaught
Ender’s Shadow
Title: Ender’s Shadow Author: Orson Scott Card Mass Market Paperback: 480 pages Publisher: Tor Books (December 15, 2000) ISBN: 0812575717 This was a great book – perhaps not a fabulous as Ender’s Game, but this one made me cry at the end. This is the story of Bean, an undersized orphan child almost dead from […]
August 9th, 2006 by alephnaught
Ender’s Game
Title: Ender’s Game Author: Orson Scott Card Mass Market Paperback: 384 pages Publisher: Tor Science Fiction; Reprint edition (July 15, 1994) ISBN: 0812550706 This book has a great premise – Earth has fought the buggers, aliens that appear to be insect-like, twice. Earth is now trying to find someone to lead its forces against the […]
July 24th, 2006 by alephnaught
Aviva’s brother came to visit
We had a great time I think. Friday I met up with Aviva and Brian at Room and Board, an upscale furniture shop. We had dinner at Opera , a really nice Chinese restaurant. We took Brian to Uncle Fun on Saturday – that’s a really interesting shop that sells strange toys. We went to […]
July 18th, 2006 by alephnaught
Play Money: Or, How I Quit My Day Job and Made Millions Trading Virtual Loot
Title: Play Money: Or, How I Quit My Day Job and Made Millions Trading Virtual Loot Author: Julian Dibbell Hardcover: 321 pages Publisher: Basic Books (June 28, 2006) ISBN: 0465015352 When I read a short reference to this book in a magazine, I figured I should read the book and then send it to my […]
July 17th, 2006 by alephnaught
Went to see the new Cirque du Soleil show last night!
Aviva and I try to make the new Cirque du Soleil shows when they come to Chicago; we got hooked over six years ago. Corteo was a bit different – the acrobatics were a little less over the top, there was more dancing, the usual helping of comedy (but perhaps a little less going out […]
September 17th, 2006 by alephnaught