Cindy and I listened to Infomacracy together. Christine Marshall did a good job as the reader. Introducing a Science Fiction / Fantasy world is a challenge. In this case, the transition into the story was not very smooth. When we started listening we had trouble following the story and wondered if the playback of the recording...
All the Birds in the Sky opens up with a six year old girl, Patricia, finding a wounded bird. Immediately I felt I was entering the magical world of a fairy tale and thought that this would have been a great book to have read to my kids when they were young. It is at...
More and more we find ourselves living in a time of “full-disclosure”; an era where the notion of privacy is quickly becoming an alien concept. Much of this invasion of our privacy is beyond our control: cameras are ubiquitous and are found in most businesses, in many private homes, and on practically every street corner; our online activities...
I really enjoyed reading this book. The Abyss Surrounds Us takes place in the future where the political landscape has changed and giant sea creatures, Reckoners, are bred and trained to protect ships from pirates. The story is about Cass, who has studied her entire life to learn how to raise and train Reckoners to protect...