Thursday, February 28, 2019

Review: Kindle Fire HD10

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Boen dropped his Kindle Fire HD8 on the floor and cracked the screen. It was still working, but after more than a year living with the Fire...
Wednesday, February 27, 2019

Review: Batman - Haunted Knight

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Boen saw my Amazon open as I was reviewing Batman White Knight , and made a request to read Haunted Knight . I checked it out of the Hoopla ...
Tuesday, February 26, 2019

Review: Batman - White Knight

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I got the first issue of White Knight as part of some freebie promotion. Right after I finished the free issue, I went over to Hoopla and p...
Monday, February 25, 2019

Review: Voice Lessons for Parents

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Voice Lessons for Parents is a parenting guide for the affluent soccer-moms/tiger-dads who live in the suburb and face the typical problems...
Friday, February 22, 2019

Review: Honey Stinger Organic Waffles

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Amazon had a $5 special on the Honey Stinger Organic Waffles , so I ordered a box to try. Each box of 16 costs about $20, so these cost quit...
Thursday, February 21, 2019

Review: Gatchaman 1994 OVA

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I realized that the 1994 Gatchaman OVA was part of the Gatchaman Complete collection . I was pretty sure that the original Gatchaman was a ...
Wednesday, February 20, 2019

Review: The New Childhood

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I really wanted to like The New Childhood . Shapiro strikes me as likely to be a great parent (most parents will not be bothered to learn th...
Tuesday, February 19, 2019

Review: Monsters 2

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Monsters 2 is the sequel to Pixeljunk Monsters Ultimate HD . When Bowen learned that this was available for the PS4, he didn't hesitate...
Monday, February 18, 2019

Review: The Longevity Diet

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Having recently read a crack-pot diet book, I was wary when I saw The Longevity Diet . To my relief, this is not a crackpot diet book. Valte...
Friday, February 15, 2019

Reread: A Wizard of Earthsea

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I got fed up with the story and decided that I'd stop reading The Girl Who Drank the Moon to Bowen because it just wasn't worth my ...
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Thursday, February 14, 2019

Review: The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year (Vol 12)

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I recently let my subscription to the magazine of fantasy and science fiction lapse, mostly because they had raised the prices, but also bec...
Wednesday, February 13, 2019

Review: Classics of English Literature

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In my continuing effort to fill in gaps in my education, I picked the great courses program Classics of English Literature as my next liste...
Tuesday, February 12, 2019

Review: Human Errors

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Human Errors has one of the best premises I'd ever seen for a science book. The idea is that there are plenty of books extolling the wo...
Monday, February 11, 2019

Review: Science News

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It never ceases to amaze me that the cost of print magazine subscriptions is usually less than the cost of digital subscriptions (though man...
Friday, February 08, 2019

Review: Masters of Doom

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I usually try to borrow books from the library , but my rule is that if the Kindle edition is $5 or less and the library doesn't have it...
Thursday, February 07, 2019

Review: Sex At Dawn

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Sex At Dawn is a book with an argument, so let me summarize the argument in the book: Traditional views on the evolutionary nature of sex...
Wednesday, February 06, 2019

Review: Rogue Heroes - The History of the SAS

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After reading the brilliant The Spy and the Traitor, I went back and picked up Rogue Heroes from the library, hoping for another great read...
Tuesday, February 05, 2019

How Alexa captured me as a customer and dragged me into the post smartphone era

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I can clearly remember when I knew I'd been captured by Garmin as a customer: it was when I bought their stupendously expensive Smart Sc...
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Monday, February 04, 2019

Reread: Alan Moore's Miracleman

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I rarely re-read books, and comic books, in particular, don't age well, with very few exceptions. The most notable of all exceptions, of...
Friday, February 01, 2019

Review: The Girl Who Drank the Moon

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The Girl Who Drank the Moon is the 2017 Newberry Award winner and has won many book awards for 5-7th grade readers. I checked out the book ...