I'm heading up to Halifax tomorrow morning for the WWE Smackdown house show and I plan on stopping in at Chapters in Dartmouth (my favorite retail store in the world).
I have compiled a list of books I'll be picking up - my summer 2010 reading list is as follows:
"The White Road" by John Connolly: In South Carolina, a young black man faces the death penalty for the rape and murder of Marianne Larousse, daughter of one of the wealthiest men in the state. It's a case that nobody wants to touch, a case with its roots in old evil, and old evil is private detective Charlie Parker's speciality. But Parker is about to enter a living nightmare, a red dreamscape haunted by the murderous spectre of a hooded woman, by a black car waiting for a passenger that never comes, and by the complicity of both friends and enemies in the events surrounding Marianne Larousse's death. This is not an investigation. This is a descent into the abyss, a confrontation with dark forces that threaten all that Parker holds dear: his lover, his unborn child, even his soul...
"Lowboy" by John Wray: Early one morning in New York City, Will Heller, a sixteen-yearold paranoid schizophrenic, gets on an uptown B train alone. Like most people he knows, Will believes the world is being destroyed by climate change; unlike most people, he's convinced he can do something about it. Unknown to his doctors, unknown to the police--unknown even to Violet Heller, his devoted mother--Will alone holds the key to the planet's salvation. To cool down the world, he has to cool down his own overheating body: to cool down his body, he has to find one willing girl.
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larson: Cases rarely come much colder than the decades-old disappearance of teen heiress Harriet Vanger from her family's remote island retreat north of Stockholm, nor do fiction debuts hotter than this European bestseller by muckraking Swedish journalist Larsson. At once a strikingly original thriller and a vivisection of Sweden's dirty not-so-little secrets (as suggested by its original title, Men Who Hate Women), this first of a trilogy introduces a provocatively odd couple: disgraced financial journalist Mikael Blomkvist, freshly sentenced to jail for libeling a shady businessman, and the multipierced and tattooed Lisbeth Salander, a feral but vulnerable superhacker. Hired by octogenarian industrialist Henrik Vanger, who wants to find out what happened to his beloved great-niece before he dies, the duo gradually uncover a festering morass of familial corruption--at the same time, Larsson skillfully bares some of the similar horrors that have left Salander such a marked woman.
The Book Of Awesome: In this adaptation of his blog www.1000awesomethings.com, Pasricha celebrates the simple pleasures of everyday living. Focusing on both tangible pleasures and simple experiences, Pasricha provides a contemporary take on everyday inspiration that skips the typical Chicken Soup for the Soul fare: "When you push the button for the elevator and it's already there," ("Ding!"); "When the boss goes out of town" ("Who's up for a three-hour lunch?"); "Peeling that thin plastic film off new electronics" ("Welcome to the world, remote control"). Other items get more substantial discussions, including the other side of the pillow, old playground equipment, hotel lobby bathrooms, the last day of school, and the five-second rule.
Beat The Reaper by Josh Bazal: Dr. Peter Brown is an intern at Manhattan's worst hospital, with a talent for medicine, a shift from hell, and a past he'd prefer to keep hidden. Whether it's a blocked circumflex artery or a plan to land a massive malpractice suit, he knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men.
Pietro "Bearclaw" Brnwna is a hitman for the mob, with a genius for violence, a well-earned fear of sharks, and an overly close relationship with the Federal Witness Relocation Program. More likely to leave a trail of dead gangsters than a molecule of evidence, he's the last person you want to see in your hospital room.
Nicholas LoBrutto, aka Eddy Squillante, is Dr. Brown's new patient, with three months to live and a very strange idea: that Peter Brown and Pietro Brnwa might-just might-be the same person ...
Now, with the mob, the government, and death itself descending on the hospital, Peter has to buy time and do whatever it takes to keep his patients, himself, and his last shot at redemption alive. To get through the next eight hours-and somehow beat the reaper.
..I plan on getting another Stephen King book..but I haven't decided yet what it's going to be. I'm leaning towards the 3rd Dark Tower book - or one of his older "blockbusters" like "The Shining" or "The Stand". I'll make my choice when I'm standing in front of his section tomorrow.
Thus starts my ambitious summer reading schedule. Granted, the majority of those books are 300-400 pages long..aside from "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo" which is approx. 800 pages long.
Check out http://www.moderndistraction.com/ for reviews and such!
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May 10th, 2010
* Pretty excited for the weekend. Yes, I know it's only Monday and the weekend JUST ended but I'll be heading up to Halifax this weekend to take in an evening of World Wrestling Entertainment. Mark and I scored tickets to Smackdown's "house show" at the Metro Centre Saturday night - should be a good time.
* Wrote my CAIB 2 exam on Wednesday morning - I don't really know how to feel about it. The questions that I knew - I knew perfectly. That being said, the one's that I didn't know that well - I had to bullshit like mad (good thing was is that did not have to apply to many questions).
* Redesigned the ModernDistraction website along with Mark. Looks pretty nifty. Not quite where I'd want it to be - permanently - but that would require me to learn CSS, which I can't see happening in the immediate future.
* Here's the part of my blog where I talk about reading. As usual - I've been plowing through books like mad. If you've seen on the MD site, I've posted reviews recently for Under The Dome and Bright Shiny Morning - one I enjoyed much more than the other. I recently also finished "Velocity" by Dean Koontz. Nothing overlly special - I did complete a review - so that will be posted later on in the week. I also started "The Drawing of the Three - Dark Tower II" by Stephen King. Only about 80 pages in but good so far. I'd say in a few months I'll be ordering a massive amount of books from Chapters - I need to build up a good amount of material for summer reading.
That's all for now - check out the site www.moderndistraction.com for any reviews, updates or any news. I've also got a Twitter account - @brandonsears.
* Wrote my CAIB 2 exam on Wednesday morning - I don't really know how to feel about it. The questions that I knew - I knew perfectly. That being said, the one's that I didn't know that well - I had to bullshit like mad (good thing was is that did not have to apply to many questions).
* Redesigned the ModernDistraction website along with Mark. Looks pretty nifty. Not quite where I'd want it to be - permanently - but that would require me to learn CSS, which I can't see happening in the immediate future.
* Here's the part of my blog where I talk about reading. As usual - I've been plowing through books like mad. If you've seen on the MD site, I've posted reviews recently for Under The Dome and Bright Shiny Morning - one I enjoyed much more than the other. I recently also finished "Velocity" by Dean Koontz. Nothing overlly special - I did complete a review - so that will be posted later on in the week. I also started "The Drawing of the Three - Dark Tower II" by Stephen King. Only about 80 pages in but good so far. I'd say in a few months I'll be ordering a massive amount of books from Chapters - I need to build up a good amount of material for summer reading.
That's all for now - check out the site www.moderndistraction.com for any reviews, updates or any news. I've also got a Twitter account - @brandonsears.
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