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I’ve now finished Dune Messiah, the shortest of the Dune books. (If you don’t want to read more Dune rambling, stop now)

I’m re-reading the original Dune series because another is soon to come. (This post is long and rambling… don’t read it)

I just finished the kick-off book for a new nine book story arc that takes place about 35 years after Return of the Jedi. There’s some trouble of a possible civil war and Luke is sensing a threatening man that doesn’t exist yet. Aaron Allston writes the kick-off in a rapid pace of action that […]

Before reading Joseph Ellis’ “His Excellency George Washington” I think the most I knew was that he was the first president (two terms), he was the general in the revolutionary war, he had a wife named Martha, and he had false teeth. American history classes never talk about his except to acknowledge he was there […]

“Crimes Against Nature: How George W. Bush and His Corporate Pals Are Plundering the Country and Hijacking Our Democracy” is the full title and it’s the best non-fiction book I’ve read in a long time. Though at times it seems like conspiracy theory ramblings. I’m aware of a lot of environmental problems over the years, […]

I’ve read three books in the last month, mostly while waiting for builds at work or while brushing my teeth. First up is Fledgling by Octavia Butler. I like stories that give a real world like base for something that stories generally treat as supernatural. It’s not that I dislike supernatural stories, but once something […]

I just finished reading the latest Christopher Moore book, A Dirty Job. Like all of his books I’ve read, it made me laugh out loud. Get it, read it, laugh, be happy.

I finally got around to reading “Dark Lord the Rise of Darth Vader.” It takes place right after “Revenge of the Sith” through probably a few months after. In the beginning he’s hating his cumbersome suit. By the end the Emperor has put him in situations that let him truly value and embrace the dark […]

Continuing with my not being able to help reading new Star Wars books, I’ve just finished “The Joiner King” by Troy Denning. Writing for the New Jedi Order story arc Troy Denning produced one of the two best books of that series. I looked forward to his return to the Star Wars universe and with […]

Most of my books are packed up because we were getting the floors refinished. They remain packed up because there is still a lot of wall work to be done and it didn’t seem worth it to set up the book cases again only to move them. My books that I haven’t read are also […]