Why Is Sex Fun?: The Evolution of Human Sexuality
Title: Why Is Sex Fun?: The Evolution of Human Sexuality Author: Jared Diamond Paperback: 176 pages Publisher: Basic Books (November 1998) ISBN: 0465031269 I’ve read Guns, Germs and Steel and Collapse – I liked both of them, so when I saw this book on the shelf at Borders I grabbed it. I’m glad I did. […]
October 22nd, 2006 by alephnaught
Last King of Scotland
Title: Last King of Scotland Viewed on: October 21, 2006 Aviva and I took Aviva’s mom, Lily, to see this movie. The film is about a Scotish doctor, Dr. Garrigan, who goes to Uganda fresh from school, meets Idi Amin, becomes his personal physician, and then things get scary (I don’t want to give the […]
October 21st, 2006 by alephnaught
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The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization
Title: The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization Author: Peter M. Senge Paperback: 464 pages Publisher: Currency (March 21, 2006) ISBN: 0385517254 To set some perspective…. I’ve asked my team to read a book about either banking or business about every two months. We started with Execution; one team member told […]
October 2nd, 2006 by alephnaught
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Shadow of the Giant
Title: Shadow of the Giant Author: Orson Scott Card Mass Market Paperback: 371 pages Publisher: Tor Books; Reprint edition (February 7, 2005) ISBN: 0812571398 The last book of the Ender series that follows Bean, the child that helped Ender beat the Buggers and then helped Peter unite the world. The book is good exciting fun […]
September 25th, 2006 by alephnaught
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Shadow Puppets
Title: Shadow Puppets Author: Orson Scott Card Mass Market Paperback: 384 pages Publisher: Tor Books (June 3, 2003) ISBN: 0765340054 If you’ve read the two books leading up to this one, Ender’s Shadow (which, if you’ve read this blog you know made me cry) and Shadow of the Hegemon, then you need to read this […]
September 25th, 2006 by alephnaught
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Starship Troopers
Title: Starship Troopers Author: Robert A. Heinlein Paperback: 272 pages Publisher: Ace (May 15, 1987) ISBN: 0441783589 While telling someone about Ender’s Game, that person mentioned Starship Troopers, which I’d never read before. So, next time in a used bookstore here in Chicago I grabbed a copy. Excellent choice! This book is really fun! Its […]
September 17th, 2006 by alephnaught
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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
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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
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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
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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 […]
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October 25th, 2006 by alephnaught
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