Tag Archives: week in review

Slow week at the library this week, in part because I’m just starting to get over a rather miserable cold and in part because the books I checked out at the library weren’t what I was expecting. I went to … Continue reading →

I shifted to doing individual comments back in October 2008, but I still haven’t figured out what to do with this weekly wrap-up.  I tend to share interesting quotations on Teaser Tuesday where a larger audience (I assume) will enjoy … Continue reading →

Slow week, really. I’ve been…distracted, and a minor eye infection didn’t help matters. It’s hard to read while squinting like a pirate. I wound up reading a history book instead of concentrating on either my wolf book or my Cornwell … Continue reading →

This past week has been an excellent one. I started off by reading two similar Trek books; Martin and Mangel’s’ Kobayashi Maru, which continues in the Enterprise relaunch and leads directly into the Romulan War, and Julia Ecklar’s The Kobayashi … Continue reading →

This past week I continued in Bernard Cornwell’s excellent Saxon Chronicles with The Pale Horseman, started the Typhon Pact series and declared myself ~Caught Up~ in trek lit with Zero Sum Game by David Mack, and finished The Earth Shall Weep, … Continue reading →

Not a bad last week; revisited Shulman in I Was a Teenage Dwarf, which was fairly fun. The Naked Lady Who Stood on Her Head offered a peek into the life of a psychiatrist,  and I finished off Mapping Human History. … Continue reading →

Week before last I fell ill with a sinus infection the day after going to the library, and I didn’t read a thing for nearly a week. Last week’s reading was all carryover. Frank by James Kaplan and The Last Kingdom by … Continue reading →

This past week I tried planning my reading around English culture, but unfinished business with Jules Verne and the inability to resist a history of modernization in the Islamic world meant I only read two of the three English-themed books … Continue reading →

This past week has been quiet, as far as books go. I read an older, but never-finished Deep Space Nine relaunch novel (Warpath, David Mack) which was well done but continues in story arcs I don’t particularly like. I finally … Continue reading →