Unless you want to be entertained, intrigued, and possibly disturbed, do not read this book. On the other hand, if you enjoy thought provoking short fiction, then download a copy of Guy Hasson’s The Emoticon Generation today. A collection of short stories that seem to focus on human nature when technology allows us to play with the rules […]
Review | The Emperor of all Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee
2013-04-05 · by ·
In the author’s note to The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, Siddhartha Mukherjee notes that “Cancer is not one disease, but many diseases.” It anticipates Mukherjee’s history, a look at cancer starting in the ages and proceeding forward to the modern day. It’s a 4,000 year history, and Mukherjee tells it well. The […]
Review | Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber
2013-04-04 · by ·
David Graeber is an anthropologist and anarchist, an early member of the Occupy Wall Stree movement. He’s so “out there” that even Yale decided not to renew his contract as an assistant professor in 2005. If he’s too liberal for Yale, then…well, you know. Probably too liberal for me, too, right? Or maybe not. If just […]
April is A – Z Challenge Month
2013-04-01 · by ·
Beginning today, Attack of the Books is part of the Blogging from A to Z Challenge. Started in 2010 by Arlee Bird in an effort to force himself to post everyday (except Sunday), it has grown to include 1,758 blogs. The challenge requires participants to draft posts thematically with the corresponding day of the month. Sort […]
Review | The Allow of Law by Brandon Sanderson
2013-03-26 · by ·
I took me a long time to pick up The Alloy of Law: A Mistborn Novel, and I regret that I didn’t read it sooner. It’s a great read. I am accustomed to being surprised by Brandon Sanderson. He’s one of the more innovative writers in the fantasy genre today, managing with his Mistborn Trilogy […]
Review | City of Thieves by David Benioff
2013-03-25 · by ·
I love this book. I cannot recommend it to everyone, and I’m not sure who else will like it, but I found City of Thieves: A Novel beautiful, if tragic, sad, and raw. Description from Goodreads: A writer visits his retired grandparents in Florida to document their experience during the infamous siege of Leningrad. His […]
Listen to an Audio Clip from A Memory of Light
2013-03-11 · by ·
Not all audio books are created equal. Nothing’s worse than finding a great story read by a grating voice. The fourteen volume Wheel of Time, read by Kate Reading and Michael Kramer, does not have that problem. Rather, they take a great story and bring it to life, and as it unfolds manage to make you wish […]
Sanderson names the next title in The Stormlight Archive
2013-03-04 · by ·
I’ve made no secret that I’m a Brandon Sanderson fan. His writing reminds me why I fell in love with fantasy, but without the tropes and clichés that often plague the genre. (Plus, he’s local, and we share our alma mater, but that’s neither here nor there). Fresh off the success of finishing Robert Jordan’s […]
Review | The Crack in Space by Philip K. Dick
2013-02-27 · by ·
There’s a good chance that you know Philip K. Dick, if not by name, then by the movies his books and stories have spawned. He’s that rare author with as many ten of his stories or novels adapted for the big screen, albeit posthumously. Think Blade Runner, starring Harrison Ford, an adaptation of Dick’s brilliant Do androids dream […]
Review | The Emperor’s Soul by Brandon Sanderson
2013-02-20 · by ·
I’ve not read many books by Brandon Sanderson that weigh in at less than several hundred pages, so when I saw the thin spine of The Emperor’s Soul sitting on the shelf at Weller Book Works next to Sanderson’s thicker novels, I was immediately curious. From the back of the book: When Shai is caught […]
