Sunday, January 24, 2010
Book Review: The Essential Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (book 9 of 100)
I'm not much of a biography fan, but as I told you, my goal with this reading challenge is to expand my knowledge of both authors and genres, not that I expect to be reading an abundance of self-help books ever. to that end, I picked up a copy of The Essential Sir Arthur Conan Doyle at the library....
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Saturday, January 23, 2010
Movie Review: Milk
I've known about Harvey milk since I was 14 and I heard awesome reviews about this movie, but what I've noticed is that LGBT people especially tend to think any movie that portrays us without ridiculing us is awesome. See "Chasing Amy" for an example. I, however, tend to be a little more...
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Friday, January 22, 2010
Book Review: Neanderthal (Book 8 of 100)
As you may remember, I have an obsession with neanderthals. I don't know if it's because they stand the way people with cerebral palsy tend to or if I assume that they communicate using the kind of gestural language I resort to when I'm having a bad speaking day. I never heard of John Darnton, but...
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Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Dvd Review: Back to the Future: the animated series
I ordered Back to the Future the animated series when I was in my I'm obsessed with everything Bob Gale and Bob zemeckis ever created, especially Back to the Future. I finally located it on ebay. But what arrived was not what I had purchased. What arrived was a very ghetto looking,bootleg copy of...
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Monday, January 18, 2010
Book Review: Shadow Puppets (Book 7 of 100)
Shadow Puppets is yet another one of Orson Scott Cards seemingly endless series of Ender related stories. I listened to this one on audio book. The interesting thing about this particular novel was that Ender wasnt even in the story as a person at all. Instead, this story focused on the relationship...
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Saturday, January 16, 2010
Book Review: Hot and Sweaty Rex (6 of 100)
I read Eric Garcia’s Hot and Sweaty Rex, the third and for now, sadly, final chapter of his Rex series. The other’s are Casual Rex and Anonymous Rex. The hero of the tales is Vincent Rubio, a private detective and dinosaur (yes, I said dinosaur). I’m a geek at heart; I also like adventures. In a...
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Monday, January 11, 2010
Book Review: 1,000 White Women (5 of 100)
One Thousand White Women by Jim Fergus is yet another on my list of books that I would actually read under normal circumstances, but I'm trying to broaden my reading tastes in my effort to read 100 books in 2010. After deciding to broaden my reading horizons, for this book especially, I've come to...
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Saturday, January 9, 2010
Book Review: The Guinea Pig Diaries (book 4 of 100)
The Guinea Pig diaries: My Life is Experiment is the latest work by A.J. Jacobs who is rather famous for his work The Year of Living Biblically. One might be surprised that I like his work as much as I do. He is, after all, a white, able-bodied, homosexual man and I find most of this group's work...
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Commentary: It's Funny what Kids Think
When I was a kid, I assumed that I would learn how to walk or die because until I was about 12 I'd never seen a grown-up in a wheelchair. I became very excited when an adult in a wheelchair came on the TV in a commercial. I asked my mother to come into the room, so I could show her this person. She...
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Friday, January 8, 2010
Book Review: The Darwin Conspiracy (Book 3 of 100)
The Darwin Conspiracy is not the sort of book I'd pick up normally. I think I chose it because I have been obsessed of late with neanderthals. Part of me hoped the book would be about that. Sadly it wasn't. The novel tells the story of Hugh, an evolutionary biology grad student, who is dealing with...
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