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I'm a husband, father, author, cyclist, sailor, travel addict, and Silicon Valley software engineer. I've written 4 books and actively review books on this blog. Comments on this blog are aggressively moderated against link-spam and rude or meaningless comments.

Monday, July 29, 2013

Review: Proven Guilty

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Proven Guilty is book #8 in the Dresden files, and we see Jim Butcher finally starting to tie all the previous books together.  This is a g...
Thursday, July 25, 2013

Review: Modernist Cuisine at Home

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Modernist Cuisine at Home is a cookbook. As such, it shouldn't be read end-to-end, but should be reviewed for the recipes it contains. ...
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Wednesday, July 24, 2013

Review: Dead Beat

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Dead Beat is book 7 of the Dresden files. The theme villains for this novel are the necromancers, so we finally get to see zombies in actio...
Tuesday, July 23, 2013

Review: Strikefleet Omega

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The first time I saw Air Traffic Control, I immediately got addicted. This is one of those genre of games which are ideal for a tablet or ph...
Thursday, July 18, 2013

Review: Weeride Kangaroo Childseat

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It is clearly not a hidden agenda with me that I want my child to enjoy cycling, preferably from as early an age as possible. One of my fell...
Wednesday, July 17, 2013

My Books Are Discounted on Amazon

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Those of you who visit my books' website know that I don't believe in discounting. But Amazon believes otherwise, and for now, prin...
Monday, July 15, 2013

Review: Contagious

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Contagious is a viral marketing handbook. Written by a professor of marketing at the Wharton business school, it promises to tell you how t...
Friday, July 12, 2013

Review: Nickel Plated

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Nickel Plated comes from the Amazon Encore Imprint of books. Judging by the quality (and price) of the book, traditional dead tree publishe...
Thursday, July 11, 2013

Review: The First 20 Minutes

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The First 20 Minutes is a book about exercise physiology. It's been a number of very good years for exercise physiology since more and ...
Tuesday, July 09, 2013

Review: Ghost Spin

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I was all set to buy Ghost Spin , after enjoying Moriarty's previous books Spin State and Spin Control , but the Amazon reviews put me ...
Thursday, July 04, 2013

Review: The Ocean at the End of the Lane

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Garrett was kind enough to get me an autographed copy of The Ocean At The End Of The Lane , so I could skip the queue at the library and get...
Wednesday, July 03, 2013

Review: Lance Armstrong's War

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I picked up Lance Armstrong's War from the library on a whim, since it's Tour de France season, and I figured it would be amusing t...
Monday, July 01, 2013

Negotiation Consultancy Back In Operation

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While I was working for Quark Games, I stopped accepting clients for my private services . (There would have been something wrong with worki...
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Friday, June 28, 2013

Review: Funky Gourmet, Athens

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I neglected to review Funky Gourmet during my Athens Trip Report . It was a bright spot in an otherwise not very stellar trip. To begin ...

Review: Blood Rites

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Blood Rites is book 6 of the Dresden files series. In this book, Dresden foils a plot involving murder of various women who are working at ...
Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Review: Death Masks

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Death Masks  is the fifth book in the Dresden files . It continues the series' trend away from the private investigator schtick towards ...
Sunday, June 23, 2013

Review: Summer Knight

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Summer Knight is the fourth book in the Dresden files. This time, Jim Butcher focuses on the Faerie, while providing more background for Ha...

Review: Before Midnight

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I saw Before Sunrise/Before Sunset as a set of movies years ago. Those were great films, so when XiaoQin mentioned that Before Midnight wa...
Friday, June 21, 2013

Review: Don't Turn Around

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Don't Turn Around is Michelle Gagnon's YA thriller. It does seem custom-written for Hollywood as far as facing the latest trends. T...
Thursday, June 20, 2013

Review: Grave Perils

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Grave Perils is the first Dresden book that feels like it's a good novel. It starts out with Dresden and his friend Michael trying to f...
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