Category: Books
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Japanese that Japanese people don’t know
The other day I bought the book 日本人の知らない日本語, “Japanese that Japanese people don’t know”. It is a cute little book with comics, lots and lots and lots of ruby (furigana readings over the Kanji) written by a Japanese language teacher who primarily teaches foreign students. The idea is that foreigners have lots of crazy questions […]
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Review of Lawrence Watt-Evans’ “The Unwilling Warlord”
So a few days ago I finished reading the second book in the Ethshar series by Lawrence Watt-Evans. It took a bit of time for it to get going, but I liked it in the end. The third book, The Unwilling Warlord, was quicker to get started. What I have really enjoyed about the Ethshar […]
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Lawrence Watt-Evans “With a Single Spell”
Fictionwise.com With a Single Spell A few days ago I started reading Lawrence-Watt Evans’ “With a Single Spell”. At first, I didn’t like it. It took a while to get into the book. I didn’t like the protagonist. He was a lazy, entitled, selfish boy. I had a really hard time empathizing with him. I […]
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Lawrence Watt-Evans’ “The Misenchanted Sword”
Note that I actually purchased the ebook from fictionwise.com. And it was cheap: about $2 when I got it, but now it is back up to $6 it looks like. Huh. I found this book through Joseph Mallozzi’s blog / book club. It sounded interesting, and I liked that the author took the time to […]
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Up next on the ebook reader: Lawrence Watt-Evans “The Misenchanted Sword”
Lawrence Watt-Evans’ Ethshar book series page. But cheaper at Fictionwise.com. Sadly. Come on Amazon, get some good low-price options going here! I love impulse buying books that can be digitally delivered! Over at Joseph Maolozzi’s blog they did a book-of-the-month club selection of The Misenchanted Sword: A Legend of Ethshar (Legends of Ethshar). I haven’t […]
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Nick Harkaway’s “The Gone-Away World” and Bich Mihn Nguyen’s “Short Girls”
Nick Harkaway’s “The Gone-Away World” I picked up this book a while back, and once I started reading it I had a hard time putting it down. This was my first time reading anything by Nick Harkaway, and I found his writing style to be a bit verbose, but very refreshing. The setting is interesting; […]
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Added a book list on the right
Added a book list running down the right-hand side of the blog. It is provided by Library Thing but I have also been playing around with Amazon.com’s Reading application. It doesn’t yet seem to provide a nice badge of books that I’ve read recently though. (Neither does Library Thing, I can only order it by […]
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Lev Grossman’s “The Magicians”
Visit Brakebills College for Magic Last week, I finished Lev Grossman’s “The Magicians”. I have a few things to confess. Well, more than a few, but we will limit things to only relevant confessions for this post. First, I’ve never read any Harry Potter books (wait, what kind of page is that Amazon? I appreciate […]
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Brandon Sanderson’s Mistborn Series
Over the past few weeks, I have been using my OLPC as an ebook reader again. I really like the OLPC as an ebook reader. I did already post a review of Bradon Sanderson’s Mistborn: The Final Empire, which I really liked. I received it as part of the Tor.com free ebook giveaway which was […]
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Stripping DRM from Ebooks
I found a good post on how to remove DRM from ebooks at http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-strip-mobi-and-prc-ebooks-of-encryption/. They have a link to some python scripts that can remove DRM from some forms of ebooks as long as you know the PID for the book that you bought. This morning I purchased Brandon Sanderson’s “The Well of Ascension”, the […]