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 would be enough to keep my daughter safe. However, we do not live in a perfect world and children are very resourceful. All it takes …
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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 Cold by Joe Abercrombie. Armed with my latest purchase, I drove to a local cigar shop and planned on enjoying a cigar while I immersed …
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 chaos, I got to thinking. Am I ever going to re-read some of these books? First on my list of questionable re-reads was the Sword …
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 some time reading a piece of Flash Fiction by John Pender. I recalled having seen his eBook and decided to give it a read. The …
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, we headed across the parking lot and ventured into Gently Used Books. I’ve been in the store on two other occasions but this was her …
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 people are being killed for no other reason than mass hysteria. The only connection between the victims is their severed pinky finger. Over a few …
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