Forsaken Skies by D. Nolan Clark My rating: 5 of 5 stars Three days. Three days is all it took for me to complete D. Nolan Clark’s Forsaken Skies the first of his The Silence series. I must confess I knew going in this book was written by horror author…
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Ken Ilgunas’ book Trespassing Across America is another book which has been sitting on a wish list for quite some time. A copy arrived under the mistletoe and after finishing The Revenant I thought it would be a nice change of pace. While making my way through Trespassing Across America…
After finding this data on my Goodreads account for 2020, I’ve decided to come back and publish details dating back to 2012, the year I started logging my reading to Goodreads. My Year in Books – 2016 on Goodreads. Books read: 22 Total pages read: 7,085 Average book length: 322…
The Revenant by Michael Punke My rating: 5 of 5 stars The Revenant has been sitting on an Amazon wish list since September 2015 when I saw the previews for the Leonardo DiCaprio movie. The goal was to read the book before seeing the movie which I regularly try to…
The Girl With All the Gifts by M.R. Carey My rating: 4 of 5 stars Gotta say another rather interesting take on the zombie genre of which I’m a big fan. Instead of the typical mystery virus we have a mystery fungus that causes people to lose their minds and…
After finishing out My First Summer in the Sierra I figured I might as well read Edward Abbey’s Desert Solitaire. This quote is from “Cowboys and Indians Part II” and is something I need to remember when I’m out hiking and enjoying nature. Need to slow down and enjoy myself.…
A few more quotes from John Muir’s My First Summer in the Sierra. I finally finished it a few weeks ago and had these quotes saved and finally made some time to get them posted here. The first is from Chapter 4, “To the High Mountains” It seems extravagant to…
I decided to take a brief, at least one book, break from reading science fiction. I’ve been on a bit of a science fiction binge lately when it comes to my reading choices and wanted to give that part of my brain a rest. With that in mind, I decided…
From Chapter 7, The Glacier Meadows: This is a glacier meadow. It is about a mile and a half long by a quarter of a mile wide. The trees come pressing forward all around in close serried ranks, planting their feet exactly on its margin, and holding themselves erect, strict…
From Chapter 7, The Glacier Meadows: The influences of pure nature seem to be so little known as yet, that it is generally supposed that complete pleasure of this kind, permeating one’s very flesh and bones, unfits the student for scientific pursuits in which cool judgement and observation are required.…