by Dan Jeffries | Apr 16, 2013 | Books, Uncategorized, Writing, TV |
Many spoilers ahead. You’ve been warned. When I first saw the Game of Thrones’ Season One finale I was shocked. They’d just killed off a major character. To me it seemed like they just killed off THE major character. They killed off someone who was...
by Dan Jeffries | Apr 3, 2013 | Books, Science, Uncategorized, Education, Enlightenment, Reviews, Satori, World Events |
Bill Bryson’s A Short History of Nearly Everything is probably the best non-fiction book I’ve ever read. In fact, it’s probably the best one ever written. The sheer amount of information in it is utterly staggering. It is so well researched that when...
by Dan Jeffries | Dec 28, 2012 | Books, Tech, Uncategorized |
It seems the older I get the harder it is to get through a whole book, even ones that I like, so when one comes along that makes me stay up all night, I take notice. Ready Player One is why I still read books, hoping that just one of them will have me ignoring the...
by Dan Jeffries | Sep 8, 2012 | Books, News, Politics, Reviews |
There’s nothing like sex and violence if you want the hit the top of the best seller charts, so it’s no surprise that the violent No Easy Day rocketed to number 1 on Amazon, thrusting aside the sex and bondage extravaganza 50 Shades of Grey. Since...
by Dan Jeffries | Sep 28, 2011 | Books |
A few of the people I follow on Twitter tweeted this fantastic article from the Smithsonian called The Top 10 Books Lost to Time. It details the most famous books you’ll never read, because they were destroyed or lost. I only knew about one of these stories. ...
by Dan Jeffries | Sep 8, 2011 | Books, Writing |
When I made my list of favorite writing books, I left an important one off the list. It’s called The 90 Day Novel, by Alan Watt. This is not to be confused with 90 Days to Your Novel, by Sarah Domet, an altogether different work that I haven’t had the...
