This is the personal blog of Walt White. I am a Drafter/Designer living in Berks County, PA. I have 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.
Being a new parent, one of my concerns is that at some point in time my daughter will find herself unsupervised and in the presence of guns. You may be thinking to yourself, if you lock up your guns you’ll never have to worry about that scenario. In a perfect world, locking my guns up [...]
Several months back I found myself with a good deal of time to kill. My grand plan was to run an errand about an hour from home and visit a Boarders bookstore in the area for new reading material. I wasn’t terribly impressed by their Fantasy selection, but one book caught my eye, Best Served [...]
Over the past few weeks I have been walking past the family bookcase and thinking that something has to be done with it. We have books stacked ontop of other books. Paperbacks wedged into tight spaces in an effort to contain all of our reading material to one space. Staring at this form of ordered [...]
Several months ago, I finished up the Tawny Man Trilogy by Robin Hobb and was in search of another epic fantasy tale. After several glowing recommendations, I decided to go with The First Law Trilogy by Joe Abercrombie. Shortly after starting in on the first book, my free time became erratic. It took a considerable [...]
With my infant daughter getting older, I find myself blessed with a bit more free time that I have been accustomed to over the past six months. My little girl has moved into a phase of keeping herself occupied and doesn’t require me, or my wife, entertaining her around the clock. These bits of free [...]
Back in July, my wife surprised me with a Barnes & Noble Nook (eReader) for my birthday. Since receiving it, I’ve been on the lookout for free eBooks which fall into the the Fantasy genre. Among them was a novel by I J Black entitled Amnar: The Execution. Of the few eBooks that I’ve collected, [...]
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 [...]
