The other day I readThe Tales of Beedle the Bard by J.K. Rowling. If you read the 7th Harry Potter book, you might remember that Dumbledore left Hermione a copy of The Tales of Beedle the Bard and it contained clues on that were helpful to her, Harry, and Ron on their mission.
It consists of 5 fairy tales for wizard children. It’s pretty short and I even I could read it in 1 sitting. The book doesn’t really add anything to the Harry Potter story that you couldn’t gain from reading the 7th Potter book. I guess it’s mostly for completists like me. Each story does have notes from Dumbledore, which are interesting to read. The author is donating all the proceeds to charity, so I don’t feel like she released this to make more money off Harry Potter.
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War, Max Brooks- Serenity Found, Jane Espenson
- On Bullshit, Harry G. Frankfurt
- On Truth, Harry G. Frankfurt
Memoirs Found in a Bathtub, Stanislaw Lem- The Stormcaller, Tom Lloyd
- The Day Watch, Sergei Lukyanenko
- The Twilight Watch, Sergei Lukyanenko
- The Final Watch, Sergei Lukyanenko
Inside Straight, George R.R. Martin- Busted Flush, George R.R. Martin
- The Final Crusade, Chaite Naasiri
- The Darker Mask, George Phillips
- Unholy Domain, Dan Ronco
The Tales of Beedle the Bard, J.K. Rowling- The Final Empire, Brandon Sanderson
- The Well of Ascension, Brandon Sanderson
- The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson
- A Memory of Light: The Gathering Storm, Brandon Sanderson
- Flashfoward, Robert J. Sawyer
- Titus Andronicus, William Shakespeare
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks is pretty entertaining and thought provoking book. I like it more than most of the other books I’ve read recently.
This book is written as if it’s nonfiction. Apparently, there was a worldwide zombie outbreak that lasted 10 years and the book was written 10 years after the end of the outbreak. It tells the story of the zombie war through a collection of interviews with survivors. The interviewees come from all over the world. The story progresses from the first case of the zombie virus until the “present” when the world is still rebuilding.
I’m not expecting a zombie attack, but reading World War Z did make me wonder how we would handle a global catastrophe. In the book, the governments of the world made some costly mistakes. I hope we wouldn’t make those same mistakes.
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War, Max Brooks- Serenity Found, Jane Espenson
- On Bullshit, Harry G. Frankfurt
- On Truth, Harry G. Frankfurt
Memoirs Found in a Bathtub, Stanislaw Lem- The Stormcaller, Tom Lloyd
- The Day Watch, Sergei Lukyanenko
- The Twilight Watch, Sergei Lukyanenko
- The Final Watch, Sergei Lukyanenko
Inside Straight, George R.R. Martin- Busted Flush, George R.R. Martin
- The Final Crusade, Chaite Naasiri
- The Darker Mask, George Phillips
- Unholy Domain, Dan Ronco
- The Tales of Beedle the Bard, J.K. Rowling
- The Final Empire, Brandon Sanderson
- The Well of Ascension, Brandon Sanderson
- The Hero of Ages, Brandon Sanderson
- A Memory of Light: The Gathering Storm, Brandon Sanderson
- Flashfoward, Robert J. Sawyer
- Titus Andronicus, William Shakespeare
Check another item off the list of things I told myself I wouldn’t do. I bought an iPhone. That means I’m only a Macbook away from being a full-fledged member of the Apple cult. I was going to get one of the new 16GB 3GS units, but they were out of black ones so I got a 32 GB. Now, I’m finally free of Sprint! Even though I don’t really like AT&T, they are much better than Sprint. It’s weird that one of the reasons I left Cingular (before they were AT&T) was because they had crappy phones compared to Sprint. Now, AT&T has the cool phone(s).
I’m happy with the phone so far. I’ve downloaded dozens of applications that I’ll probably never use. There’s only one small problem. I live kind of in the middle of no where. I seem to be relegated to the EDGE network when I’m at home. It’s not that big of a deal. I’m probably least likely to use the internet features when I’m at home. Beside, I can always use my wifi connection when I’m here.
I refuse the buy the new iPhone that is bound to come out next year. At least, that’s what I say now.
I ended up canceling my gym membership today. There’s no use in paying when I wasn’t going anymore. I already get up around 6 every morning and I don’t want to have to get up any earlier to work out. Also, I was having trouble motivating myself to go back out to work out after I got home from work.
I did, however, buy Wii Fit about a week and a half ago and have used it almost every day. Some activity is better than nothing. I just hope it doesn’t get boring.
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