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 […]
August 13th, 2006 by alephnaught
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 […]
July 14th, 2006 by alephnaught
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Saudi Arabia blames Hizbollah in Lebanon Crisis
An article off of Reuters indicates that Saudi Arabia blames radical Muslims for the unrest on the Lebanese border.
July 8th, 2006 by alephnaught
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Kan Zaman Restaurant
Kan Zaman Restaurant617 N. WellsChicago, IL 60610312-751-9600
August 27th, 2006 by alephnaught
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