Friday, May 13, 2011
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
Well Thumbed Wednesday
The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
One of my favorite authors and one of America's great masters of fiction, Ray Bradbury.
The Martian Chronicles in a few teasing sentences:
A place where Martians live among raining crystal pillars and tables of liquid silver lava
Where men from Earth are mistaken for the insane and mentally unstable
A martian and a man pass each other in the night, seemingly out of their times
Ships land in the past that is a lie more deadly than it appears
And mankinds worst is revealed in their desperate times.
One of my favorite authors and one of America's great masters of fiction, Ray Bradbury.
The Martian Chronicles in a few teasing sentences:
A place where Martians live among raining crystal pillars and tables of liquid silver lava
Where men from Earth are mistaken for the insane and mentally unstable
A martian and a man pass each other in the night, seemingly out of their times
Ships land in the past that is a lie more deadly than it appears
And mankinds worst is revealed in their desperate times.
Friday, May 6, 2011
Friday Faves and Raves
I am a big scifi dork, and one of my favorite shows is BBC's Being Human, which just finished its third season. Now there is also an american version of this show on SyFy, a show they call a SyFy "original," though obviously it is not. The thing that really makes the BBC version a superior show is (a) the writing of Toby Whithouse and (b) the relationship between the actors.
Finding dvds of BBC television shows out side of Barnes and Noble is rather uncommon, and more than that BBC dvds are generally way over priced, averaging $60 to $80 per season (and BBC seasons are about 13 episodes, nowhere near the 23 to 26 episodes that american shows average every season). So i was surprised at first finding the the third season of Being Human at Target last night, and thrilled when i read the price tag - $35! Score!
If you haven't seen this show, watch it. If you've seen the SyFy version, give the real original a try, it is a truely fantastic show.
Later lovelies!
If you haven't seen this show, watch it. If you've seen the SyFy version, give the real original a try, it is a truely fantastic show.
Later lovelies!
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
Well-Thumbed Wednesday
If i had my way my ass would hate me 'cause i'd sit on it all day just reading. Thankfully, that is not the case, but i am always excited to find great new, and old, books to read. So if anyone has any suggestions please feel free to suggest titles you love.
Today's Well-Thumbed book is Little Princes by Conor Grennan. It tells the true story of a man who gave up his job to travel the world in one year, a man after my own heart. And though he did make it around the world, it was his first stop in Nepal where he worked at an orphanage as a volunteer that led to a life long adventure he wasn't expecting. His stop in Nepal was really more of a "justification" for a trip around the world that most of his friends and family thought was inappropriate for a grown man, but our plans all have a way of rewriting themselves without our knowledge.
Children have the power to completely alter one's life, and never more so than when we think we know better. It is always fun to watch, or read about, a single man stumbling through the process of learning to care for children, but it is so completely inspiring to watch as those children teach a grown up about life. Little Princes is Grennan's story of how these children and their situation inspired him to be more than just a volunteer, and to start a non-profit organization, Next Generation Nepal, on their behalf. Plus, when you buy a copy of this book a percentage will go to the NGN foundation.
Today's Well-Thumbed book is Little Princes by Conor Grennan. It tells the true story of a man who gave up his job to travel the world in one year, a man after my own heart. And though he did make it around the world, it was his first stop in Nepal where he worked at an orphanage as a volunteer that led to a life long adventure he wasn't expecting. His stop in Nepal was really more of a "justification" for a trip around the world that most of his friends and family thought was inappropriate for a grown man, but our plans all have a way of rewriting themselves without our knowledge.
Children have the power to completely alter one's life, and never more so than when we think we know better. It is always fun to watch, or read about, a single man stumbling through the process of learning to care for children, but it is so completely inspiring to watch as those children teach a grown up about life. Little Princes is Grennan's story of how these children and their situation inspired him to be more than just a volunteer, and to start a non-profit organization, Next Generation Nepal, on their behalf. Plus, when you buy a copy of this book a percentage will go to the NGN foundation.
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