Ordinary Heros by Scott Turow

Ordinary Heros by Scott Turow

House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday

House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday

A little late for Halloween, but "How Scary Are You?" I'm pretty scary

You Are Scary

You even scare scary people sometimes!

How Scary Are You?

50 Questions

I've been working on one of those questionaires that your friends email you, like "what's your favorite salad dressing" and weird questions like that. This is actually three hundred questions that I stole from cockeyed.com and changed the answers. I also changed some of the questions, some of them didn't make any sense since they were directed at Rob Cockingham back in 2000, and not at me. There are six sets of 50 questions. See the bottom of the pages to navigate to the other sets of questions. See them here.

About "What I'm Reading"

You may have noticed a trend in the last ten books I've read; they're all in the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan. I got hooked on the series when my friend Denise Nuijten (she says it's pronounced Nite'-en) told me that I had to read that book. We each picked a book that the other should read one night whe we were out at a bar or a party, I can't remember exactly where, but drinks were involved. Here's a picture of Denise and me on our way to Florida for spring break.



I ran across the napkin where she had written the title a couple of years later. I bought the book and read it, even though I liked hard science fiction and rarely read fantasy. I recommended Neuromancer by William Gibson to her, one of my all time favorites, but I never asked her if she read it.

I decided to re-read the series to get ready for the eleventh book, Knife of Dreams, released last month. I traveled to Kansas City this week, and I saw the new book at the airport bookshop as I was flying out, but I decided that I probably wouldn't finish Crossroads of Twilight before I got back, and instead of lugging it up there and back, I'd buy it when I got home. Well, I finished the book the night before I returned, but of course the KC airport didn't have the book. So I bought Michael Connally's new book The Lincoln Lawyer. He's one of my favorites and his latest novels have been wonderfully noire cop/detective/lawyer stories. But I'm dying to see the cliffhanger in the Wheel of Time resolved, too. So I put both books on "What I'm Reading"

Knife of Dreams by Robert Jordan

Knife of Dreams by Robert Jordan

The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly

The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly

Crossroads of Twilight by Robert Jordan

Crossroads of Twilight by Robert Jordan