Not Dead, I swear

I can vow to fellow Papernauts out there, I am not dead – just working on book stuff, music stuff… and you know, WORK stuff. But I’m still trying to read when I can, and there are a few books I read that I really dig recently:

- N.K. Jemisin’s second book in The Inheritance Trilogy – The Broken Kingdoms is awesome. Loved it even more than the first book, and can’t wait for the final book, The Kingdom of the Gods. 

- John Scalzi’s The God Engines: balla. That’s a good thing.

- Stephen R. Boyett took 25 years to write the sequel to Ariel, but I will tell you this much… I’m enjoying the shit out of Elegy Beach. A world where the introduction of magic to Earth has pushed mankind to extinction, the friendship between to two boys can change the fate of the world. My regular subway read these days.

More stuff to come soon, promise. In the meantime, the twitter feed get slightly more updates. Slightly more.

John Recommends: Haruki Murakami

Hey, everyone, I am such a BAD poster these past couple weeks.  I have such little time for actual reading and it’s been driving me crazy.  Aside for the recent short stories that we have read in my literature class (which I might actually write about), everything has been text books, or French class reading.

As you may or may not know, I am a huge fan of Japan, and Japanese culture.  One of my favorite books (Temple of the Golden Pavilion by Yukio Mishima–if you haven’t read it, DO!  I will write about this one at some point) and my favorite author, Haruki Murakami–whose books I plan on rereading, and covering) come from there.

Murakami, if you haven’t guessed by the title of this post, is who I am writing about.  A friend of mine turned me on to Murakami and his works, mentioning that I should read The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle.  When I couldn’t find a copy of it, I settled on another of his novels, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World.

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Quickie post

Hey there, it’s John! I just wanted to check in and let everyone know that everything is fine. On Thursdays I usually have a book review posted. Well, it’s been a hell of a week, and I have had NO time for reading–well, for pleasure anyway. I didn’t have anything post-worthy, and I am pretty sure you guys don’t want a summary of my Geography reading. I’ll try to get something interesting to write about for next week!

Mouse in the House

So I need to apologize for my lack of posting this last week.  I discovered I have mice in my house, and so I have been busy hunting down all the ways they can get in and plugging those holes up with various materials.  ugh.

Speaking of pests in the house, I have begun to read Christopher Moore’s Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove and so I should have a review next week.  I have just started it, but there is already a zany cast of characters that I am looking forward to getting acquainted with.

 I am also working on another top 7 for next Tuesday, so, until then, stay tuned!

A look at The Town That Forgot How to Breathe

This post is a something a little out of the norm when compared to my other book reviews.  It will, at some point soon, be a full-fledged review.  For now, it’s a bit of a preview of sorts.  I have read most of the book, but haven’t had a chance to finish it before today’s post.  As I didn’t really have anything else to cover, I decided to be a little unorthodox with my post.

First, let me get this out of the way.  It seems like the fates conspired against me getting to actually finish this book in a reasonable amount of time.  I started reading it a couple weeks ago, just before my brother came to town for the family reunion.  I figured I’d still have time to read while he was here–I really didn’t.  So, when he left the reading started to pick up a bit.  When this week arrived, though, I was thrown off by the arrival of the school semester.

Now I have really gotten into it, and have begun to enjoy and appreciate it a bit more.  I am almost done, but I can pretty much surmise my feeling about the book as a whole.  If something comes up, namely with the ending, that makes me think less of the book, then I will be sure to update this piece with that information.

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John’s Top 7 Sci-Fi TV Shows

I am a HUGE fan of science fiction so, when Christine brought up the topic of this new Top 7, I was immediately on board!!  Sci-Fi is really a part of my everyday life.  It’s in the games that I play, the books that I read, and it’s one of my favorite forms of television.  I watch Sci-Fi TV shows on a regular basis.

These are seven of my favorite Sci-Fi TV shows.  I decided to go with a more recent selection, as I could fill a list with older shows quite easily.  These are NOT in any particular order because it would be really hard for me to choose one over another!  Well, except for one, which you’ll see.

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