If you are a fan of hobbits you will know that yesterday, September 21, 2012, was the 75th Anniversary of the publication of The Hobbit. You may also know that today, September 22, is the birthdate shared by Bilbo and Frodo Baggins. My first introduction to hobbits was in Grade 5 when our teacher read the [...]
Posts Categorized: Fantasy/Sci-fi
Ready, Player One?
A book I have been anxious to finish for a while now is Ready Player One, a sci fi adventure by Fanboys screenwriter and first time novelist Ernest Cline. I’ve been waiting for one of those luxurious weekends when there is nothing else to do but sit in my wing chair beside my bookshelf and read. [...]
What I read on my summer holidays
As much as I love working in my library it is tough sometimes seeing all those books just begging to be read and knowing that a lot of them will have to be put on my summer reading list. This was book one on my list: Wonder, the third book in the WWW trilogy written [...]
Turning older or the “ultimate answer to the great question of life, the universe and everything…”
At a crossroads in my life on a number of issues, I was thinking today that getting older doesn’t necessarily coincide with getting wiser. How do you determine if you’re on the right track after years of pursuing, as Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series author Douglas Adams aptly put it, the “ultimate answer to [...]
New X-Files movie should mean a new book and more Mulder…
I’m not a fan of scary or spooky books, movies, television shows or even music, especially when the scary music is in a scary movie just prior to something scary happening. However, there was something about the television series The X-Files that had me hooked. Despite its often scary themes, and, let’s face it, spooky [...]