The Price of Privilege, by Madeline Levine, 2006

I read this book at the recommendation of my son’s teacher.  Now I know what she thinks about the job we parents are doing!   I’m kidding (mostly):  She strongly emphasized that she was recommending this as a fellow parent, not as a teacher to her students’ parents.
Very well written, very interesting.  Not very suprising – I [...]

Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography by David Michaelis

Interesting sounding book about Charles Schulz.  GREAT review by Bill Waterson.  I think I’ll give this book a while to go on sale.  Strong Christmas gift possibilites, too!  (To give, I mean.)

Children’s Books

These are some of the books that g (age 6 1/2) and I love:

Benjamin McFadden and the Robot Babysitter, by Timothy Bush
Re-Zoom, by Istvan Banyai
Pssst!  It’s Me… the Bogeyman, by Barbara Park, Illustrated by Stephen Kroninger – g takes this out of the school libray every week, if he can
Hidden Under the Ground, by Peter [...]

“Books”, said Benjamin.

“Books,” said Benjamin.  “Books are fun.  They never need batteries, they fit in your knapsack, and when they get broken, you can fix them with tape.”
 Benjamin McFadden and the Robot Babysitter, by Timothy Bush.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Done

I did pace myself.  I split the reading into two nights, and quit by midnight, which is pretty civilized.  The book is a quick read, and not as forbiddingly hefty as it appears.  I enjoyed this book – I enjoyed all the Harry Potter books – but I have to say that the silly, jokey, [...]

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Book 7) Begun!

I finally picked up the last Harry Potter book last week (well, I didn’t pick it up – Amazon sent it to me), and I finally started reading it today.  When it arrived, I took one look at that thick book and said to myself, “I do not want to spend an entire night reading that [...]

A linked series of exercises

Settling back, he thrust his legs out before him and folded his hands over his belt buckle.  Eyes half-closed, he reviewed a linked series of exercises, assigning one segment of his mind to keep watch while the most of him dozed.
Scout’s Progress, by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller

Poison Study, by Maria V. Snyder

Poison Study is a nicely written but very formulaic book of the Romance genre.  If you like the Romance format, then I think you will like the book.  I’m fond of romance as part of a good story, but not in this highly stylized format. 
A synopsis of the book:  Scrappy heroine is released from the dungeon [...]

Silences, by Tillie Olsen

It is with some sorrow that I finished Silences.  It was a good book, read in bits and pieces, mostly overnight.  Totally not computer related.  It was a strange book, well-written but with a stream-of-consciousness undertone to it that confused me.  For the life of me, I could not clearly describe this book.  And yet, [...]