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Monthly Archives: November 2016
Movie – **** Arrival (2016)
An adult science fiction movie that delivered the best alien arrival story since Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
Movie – **** Harry and Snowman (2016)
Excellent documentary about horseman and the nag he saved from the glue factory to become a world champion show jumper. A story of human perseverance.
Book – Spellbound (2011)
Book – ***+ Blake Charlton’s second novel is full of novel magic, spells composed in your muscles or out of the air. His extremely complex fantasy world is managed very well.
Book – Rogue Lawyer (2015)
Book – **** In John Grisham’s recent offering, Sebastian Rudd is a lawyer who takes on the worst clients, invests in cage fighters, is a near total loner, but still manages to capture the reader’s interest in watching him thread through the mazes of the legal system.
Musk’s SpaceX has a plan for Mars
Though low on details for actually living on Mars, Elon has envisioned a way to get there and supply settlers with missing needs every two years. http://bit.ly/rma_musk_to_Mars
Book – The Chamber (1994)
Not John Grisham’s strongest novel due to it’s heavy message against capital punishment, delivered in many ways and at length. Still, Grisham is an excellent writer and I’ve yet to read a book of his that didn’t pay back my time spent.
NaNoWriMo meets at Piper’s Cafe
Fantasy and science fiction support group. A twelve-step program for those addicted to writing.
Poisonous Amanita mushrooms
October rain brought these to a mall strip near where I have breakfast. Do not add to eggs.
NaNoWriMo begins today for 2016
Once again I’m doing National Novel Writing Month. Two years ago, I wrote the opening story of Zeus 25, a science fiction novel of the Words (seven Words that created the universe). Zeus 25 is about the lasts days of Atlantis whose location and history are quite different from other mistaken…