Every month I give a little glimpse here on my web site into books I’ve read or plan on reading via a picture from my nightstand. Lately it’s more like a glimpse at my library than my nightstand, since I’m mostly talking about books I’ve read in the past, but these are at least books I hope …
Finding a connection between two characters in two different books is not always easy, but its a great mental exercise and one of the benefits of traveling through the Six Degrees universe. Going from one tale to the next, you never know quite where this journey will take you because all of us have read …
After a brief hiatus, it’s time to pick up again on our thousand foot survey of my experiences as a reader. Last time I shared some details about my reading during college. Now we’re going to move beyond that into what I tend to think of as my “non-fiction” years. It’s not that I read no fiction during …
Heigh ho, heigh ho, it’s off to Six Degrees we go! This week we once again hop from book to book and character to character as the mysterious, circuitous path known as Six Degrees of Kool Books continues. In the last link in the chain, Jenelle Schmidt introduced us to the multi-volume, history spanning world of …
I’m excited to bring you another Nightstand Books post this month. Especially excited this time because I’ve got books to share this month that I am actually currently reading! While both Phantastes and the Hobbit qualify as “old” books for me, meaning that I’ve already read them before, I recently picked them up again and this …
Well, here we go with another stop on my lifelong, roundabout reading tour. Last time I talked about how I began branching out from fantasy into other genres. That process accelerated greatly in college as you may imagine. One of the first courses I took was on Shakespeare’s history plays. Having never been exposed to the Bard’s …
Oh yeah, a whole lot of C.S. Lewis this month on the Nightstand. That’s always a good thing. I’ll let you in on a little secret. Even though most of the books I’ve published so far fall into the science fiction category, when I count up the amount of actual science fiction books I’ve read, …
Last week in our Six Degrees saga, Jenelle Schmidt helped us see the connection between King Solomon’s Mines and Othello, both excellent works. This week we’ll continue in the classics as we take a look at one of the most heart-wrenching tales of destiny and revenge ever crafted, The Count of Monte Cristo. This novel also happens to …
