The Morning News has announced this year’s 16 titles for their Tournament of Books. Brackets and judges to be announced later this month. Powell’s is offering 30% off all the titles on the list. Let’s get reading: The History of Love by Nicole Krauss * The Time in Between by David Bergen Veronica by Mary [...]

The next product in line for testing the GTD system is Formation 1.1.4. The software is available through a company called Radical Breeze, which is located in Everett, WA. The company announced that Formation 2 will be available within the next two weeks and will include many new features. For those who already own a [...]

I randomly chose StickyBrain 4 as my first software test for compatibility with the GTD system. Here are my thoughts after playing with the product for about 2 hours: PRO: easy to set up. I had a little help (ok, a lot of help) from MadeByMark.com. He has a 2-part tutorial on creating the GTD [...]

This is a guest book review by Christian. I went through a typical male adolescent comic book phase. I’m not sure what exact age it was at, but for about a year I misspent my youth pouring over the stories of Spiderman, Batman, X-men and others (as opposed to the other years I misspent on [...]

I woke up this morning to find a very interesting article from Making Light in my RSS reader entitled The life expectancies of books Here’s a sample for you: We talk about immortal literature, but the vast majority of books are as mortal as we are. Who here has read John Cleveland? He was the [...]

Seattle Weekly has once again underwhelmed me with their Spring preview of author events coming to Seattle. The Stranger takes a humorous look at James Frey and how he conned Seattle. The New York Times has an interesting article on audio books entitled “How Should a Book Sound? And What About Footnotes?” The second annual [...]

Authors Paul Auster and Siri Hustvedt will be at Benaroya Hall tonight at 7:30 PM as part of the Seattle Arts & Lectures Series. All ticket-holders may also attend a one-hour talk at 5:30 PM to discuss the featured authors. Auster is the author of one of my favorite books, The New York Trilogy. His [...]

In 2004, Book Sense published a book of 125 “favorite books recommended by independent booksellers” as part of their 5th anniversary celebration. The lists include fiction, non-fiction, and children’s books, and reading group recommendations. The books opens with a forward by Barbara Kingsolver. I really like what she had to say about independent bookstores: It’s [...]

This list is based on the best and worst books I read in 2005. That doesn’t necessarily mean they came out last year; only that I read them for the first time in 2005. I read a lot of good books in 2005, so narrowing it down to 5 was difficult. For example I had [...]