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Deception Point by Dan Brown
I am may be one of the only people in the United States who was disappointed with DaVinci Code but Loved Angels and Demons, both books by Dan Brown. I just recently finished reading another book by the same author called “Deception Point”. Like the first two books it follows a a twisty plot where ...
SignSpotting
Lonely Planet has a fun book called Signspotting which features funny signs like: They have a gallery of some of the signs.
What Would MacGyver Do?
Even before the MacGyver ad during the Super bowl was this project: “What Would MacGyver Do? is a book-in-progress. When it is finished, it will be a collection of 75 to 100 original stories by and about people who have exercised MacGyver-like ingenuity in solving their everyday problems. The stories will be selected and edited ...
Dave Barry's Money Secrets
Dave Barry has a new book out called Dave Barry’s Money Secrets. I am told it is a funny book about high finance, like how much allowance to give your kid. Dave Barry writing a funny book is not exactly news, but I did enjoy the review of the book by Michelle Singletary the personal ...
Disney Muggles Missed Out on "Harry Potter"
Mousetrips has an interesting story about what might have been in Disney-land. This has been one of those urban legends that has been circulating around the Web for years now. About how some unnamed executive on the publishing side of The Walt Disney Company had had the chance to acquire the rights to J.K. Rowling’s ...
The Last Kingdom
The Last Kingdom by Bernard Cornwell – Historical fiction set at the time of Alfred the Great (before he was great) in England when the vikings invaded and threatened to conquer all of Anglo-Saxon England’s 4 kingdoms. Bernard Cornwall is one of my favorite authors of historical fiction and this book is no exception. My ...
Legion of the Damned
I finished “Legion of the Damned ” by William C. Dietz recently. This is a science fictionl about cyborgs and the French Foreign Legion in space. No seriously. It is a fun read for sci-fi fans.
Ruled Britania
From my Summer reading comes Ruled Britannia by Harry Turtledove, one of my favorite authors. Turtledove tends to write alternate history books. The plot of this book revolves around the question “what if the Spanish Armada had conquered England during the reign of Elizabeth I”? The main character in this book is the playwright William ...
Amazon Dream and Nightmare – Harry Potter
Imagine you are the leading on-line distributor of books and that there is a widely popular book set to launch this week. You want to make sure people get their copy promptly… but not early, and you are shipping enough to fill a 200,000 square foot warehouse. Oh yes, and you don’t want the contents ...










