This is the personal blog of Walt White. I am a Drafter/Designer living in Berks County, PA. I've got a fondness for Cigars, Photography, and Firearms. Take a look around and you may find something interesting regardless of how different your hobbies may be from my own.
Book Review Seven Days of Terror Earlier this week I wrote up a quick post talking about my birthday and having received a Nook from my wife. After playing with the device for a few minutes, I hopped onto the web in search of an eBook to try it out. Earlier that day I spent [...]
Title: Random Author: Craig Robertson Published By: Simon & Schuster UK Published Date: 2010 ISBN: 978-1-84737-729-6 Length: 329 Pages Purchased From: Book Depository @ $15.15 The Story: In current day Glasgow, a series of murders take place. The killings have police baffled as there seems to be no motive. It seems as though randomly selected [...]
Title: Mad Ship Series: Liveship Traders Trilogy Author: Robin Hobb Published By: Bantam Published Date: 2000 ISBN: 0-553-57564-3 Length: 850 Pages Purchased From: Amazon @ $7.99 The Story: In the second book of the Liveship Traders Trilogy, Mad Ship, the storyline picks up immediately where it was left off in Ship of Magic. The Vestrit [...]
Title: Ship of Magic Series: Liveship Traders Trilogy Author: Robin Hobb Published By: Bantam Published Date: 1999 ISBN: 0-553-57563-5 Length: 809 Pages Purchased From: Amazon @ $7.99 The Story: Ship of Magic is the first book in the Liveship Traders Trilogy. This series of books takes place shortly after the Farseer Trilogy (Assassin’s Apprentice, Royal [...]
A couple of months ago I was having a conversation on Twitter with Dennis Camacho when he sent me a link to a website to track the things I was reading. He had mentioned that he tried the site and thought I could benefit from using it as an avid reader. The name of the [...]
Title: Assassin’s Quest Series: Farseer Trilogy Author: Robin Hobb Published By: Bantam Published Date: 1998 ISBN: 0-553-56569-9 Length: 757 Pages Purchased From: Amazon @ $7.99 The Story: After narrowly escaping King Regal’s Dungeon in Buckkeep, Fitz is in dire need of rehabilitation to get back into everyday life after being tortured to the brink of [...]
Title: Royal Assassin Series: Farseer Trilogy Author: Robin Hobb Published By: Bantam Published Date: 1997 ISBN: 978-0-553-57341-1 Length: 675 Pages Purchased From: Amazon @ $7.99 The Story: At the end of Assassin’s Apprentice, Fitz is deathly ill as a result of poison and must rest. After an extended stay in the mountain region, the remainder [...]
Title: Assassin’s Apprentice Series: Farseer Trilogy Author: Robin Hobb Published By: Bantam Published Date: 1996 ISBN: 0-553-57339-X Length: 435 Pages Purchased From: Amazon @ $7.99 The Story: Assassin’s Apprentice is the memoirs of one FitzChivalry Farseer. The story begins as Fitz explains that each time he attempts to write the history of the Six Dutchies, [...]
Title: Mistborn – Hero of Ages Author: Brandon Sanderson Published By: TOR Fantasy Published Date: May 2009 (Mass Market Edition) ISBN-10: 0-7653-5614-7 ISBN-13: 978-0-7653-5614-7 Length: 724 Pages Purchased From: Amazon @ $7.99 The Story: The Hero of Ages starts off much like The Well of Ascension and takes place after a years time has passed [...]
Title: The Law of Nines Author: Terry Goodkind Published By: The Penguin Group Published Date: 2009 ISBN: 978-0-399-15604-5 Length: 502 Pages Purchased From: Amazon @ $18.45 The Story: At the end of Confessor by Terry Goodkind, Richard Rahl conjures a powerful spell to create an alternate world. The reason for this alternate world was to [...]
