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 [...]
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 [...]
On Saturday, my wife and I made plans that had us rising from bed at an early hour. I had a few errands to run and my wife had some shopping to do. Before any of that was to start, we headed out to have breakfast at Michael’s Diner in Douglassville. Once we were fed, [...]
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: 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 [...]
Title: Mist born – The Well of Ascension Author: Brandon Sanderson Published By: Tor Fantasy Published Date: 2008 ISBN: 978-0-7653-5613-0 Length: 763 Pages Purchased From: Amazon @ $7.99 Additional Information: Mistborn is a Trilogy written by Brandon Sanderson. The three books which make up this series, in order, are The Final Empire, The Well of [...]
Photo above was taken from the Gently Used Books Website A couple of years ago, I ordered some take out over the phone from a pizza shop that was close bye. I drove over to this little strip mall and noticed a book store that I hadn’t previously, named Gently Used Books. At this particular [...]
