#q-squared

"Q-Squared"

By: Peter David

4/5

This is one of my absolute favorites so far!

On this momentous occasion of 1000 Books Recommended to all you gentle readers/viewers/listeners/etc. I give you six of my very very favorite books that I’ve recommended here.

Mystery/Thriller Monday

There is a reason why I chose this to be my very first recommended book (and first Mystery/Thriller Monday). There are only 20 books in the Deborah Knott series that this novel kicks off, but, I loved every one of them, including this one. Great characters, so much interesting info about North Carolina, always fun mysteries, and a relationship that spans all 20 books in such a satisfying way.

Totally Random Non-Fiction Tuesday

I’m a sucker for archeology/anthropology sort of texts like this. And so, a lot of what you’ll find for recommendations on Totally Random Non-Fiction Tuesday is maybe not as random as it should be. (An honorary mention here goes to Ian Tattersal’s Masters of the Planet too).

Weird & Wonderful Wednesday

This novel isn’t just one of the great Star Trek Novels, but, in my opinion, it’s a very very very good Science Fiction novel in general. It concerns different dimensions, and characters who are at once the same and different, and it has Q. Q is an omnipresent, omnipotent (he claims) being who exists to give Captain Jean-Luc Picard grief. And then when an almost Q like character from the orignal Star Trek series appears too. It’s a book that makes your eyes go cross eyed (or even just roll up into the back of your head), but only in the best way.

Youthful Thursday

I liked it as a kid, I like it now. I mean, honestly, there could be so many different favorite ‘Youthful’ tomes that I’ve read since it covers both children’s books as well as middle readers, middle grade, and young adult books. But, King Bidgood’s in the Bathtub and he won’t get out is my favorite picture book repeating phrase. Go Page!!!

Not A Book Friday

This should probably be something like Metropolis, or To Kill a Mockingbird, or even something like the original Superman movie. But, alas, nothing quite so highfalutin’ here. Instead it has all the good parts of an amazing movie, some actually pretty amazing special effects (dude, that sand head, yikes), hilarious characters (the jokesters and the straight men), oh, and, did I mention, the most awesomest librarian ever, Evelyn Carnahan (even if watching that first scene in the museum’s stacks is quite painful. Those poor books).

Comic Book Saturday

I’ve liked everything that Jeremy Whitely has written, so, that I liked this crazy adventure of an ‘all-girl pirate crew’. Isn’t surprising. And, if pirates aren’t your speed, and mutants are. There’s always the Two (plus more coming) Trades that collect Whitely writing about the New Wasp in the pages of Marvel Comics. Or, I think that he even wrote

Okay. Now I’m going to go sleep for 2 Weeks!

(Hey, 1000 book blurbs is a lot......)