Shelf Life

The Circle, Dave Eggers satire on our need to know everything, is an eerie and accurate picture of a future not far from our own. With technology constantly improving and the ease at which we can a...

Reality is boring, wouldn’t you rather be able to do the stuff your dreams are made of? Why waste time in a world ravaged by poverty and a growing energy crisis when you can put on a visor and esca...

You ever get the feeling that your whole life is the punchline of someone's joke? Douglas Adams assures us that it is and the whole universe is just a big laugh. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galax...

Let me start off by saying I am a fan of The Hunger Games. This is my general frustration which all fans of everything have, nothing is perfect. Over the weekend I saw Mockingjay Part I, my thought...

“Sometimes human places, create inhuman monsters.”Stephen King, The Shining So even though it's a week later, I'm all finished with my final book for my Halloween Activities, The Shining. This migh...

So I realized not enough of my guy friends read so I decided I needed to fix that. Here's my attempt...it went not horrible,?

I enjoy a good conspiracy theory, and while Bad Pharma was not so much a conspiracy, it was an entertaining, and often horrifying, look at the pharmaceutical industry. I came across this book after...

Over the summer I read Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl. I actually wound up reading it because I was on vacation and finished everything I brought so I started reading what my other family members brough...

As my second “Halloween Read” I read ‘Salem’s Lot by Stephen King. Personally, I’m not a big fan of vampires since the paranormal romance genre emerged and everything is vampires now, but I was gla...

I use to have this "thing" where I wouldn't quit reading a book no matter what. Sometimes I would result in speed reading it (which honestly doesn't count as reading it when your scanning pages and flipping faster than our eyes move) but I realized this weekend, there's no point. I'm free to pick and choose what I want and I should put myself through something painful just cause I spent $8 on it. So what?

If you can't already tell the title was inspired by this blog. It was really cool being able to write this. I think it gives a little insight into my personal connection with books and why I love reading

The Night Land by William Hope Hodgson

Here's my latest book review on Hannibal by Thomas Harris

Check out my latest post. I'm gonna try and update a lot more most of my book related things will appear here from now on. hope you enjoy!