By GW on 09/04/2011
A couple days ago, I bought the latest novella release by Stephen King. Titled Mile 81, it’s an ebook-only release. I downloaded it to my Kindle app for Android. Reminiscent of King’s Christine and From a From a Buick 8, this story contains some vivid, creepy imagery and features a car. I read it in [...]
Posted in Books, cars, Product Reviews Tagged car, cheap, ebook, gross, horror, kindle, Mile 81, muddy, novella, scary, Stephen King, stories
By GW on 09/30/2010
We’ve did a nice round of de-cluttering in our house and ended up with many boxes of books. I have this box of assorted horror, medical thriller and legal thriller books for sale. Authors include Stephen King, Dean Koontz, John Grisham, Peter Straub, Robin Cook and Michael Crichton. I wish to sell this as one [...]
Posted in Books, People I admire, pop culture, Shopping Tagged books, dean koontz, horror, michael crichton, paperback, peter straub, reading, sale, Stephen King, stories, thrillers, used
By GW on 01/10/2010
While watching a segment regarding the electronic revolution and the publishing industry on CBS Sunday Morning today (Out of Print, the Written Word Considered), something occurred to me. Some public library systems already loan electronic content like ebooks and audiobooks through a partnership with services like OverDrive, but they require reader software and the books [...]
Posted in Books, Call to Action, Pipe dreams Tagged books, ebook, libraries, library, reading, rental
By GW on 01/06/2010
Back when I was in college*, I was pretty much at the mercy of the college bookstore when it came to textbooks. Even their used texts were outrageously expensive, and this was the late 1990′s. I can only imagine what students pay now. There were always a few “for sale” notes pinned to campus bulletin [...]
Posted in Books, Rip offs, Shopping Tagged amazon, bargain, classifieds, college, discount, for sale, school, Shopping, student, textbook
By GW on 07/22/2009
I didn’t know Jeff Bridges is a shutterbug. What’s more, he’s good! I learned about this from Phil Coomes’ BBC The Viewfinder blog. Bridges shoots with a Widelux camera, interesting in itself; the camera does extreme wide-angle, panoramic shots. I wonder if that’s the kind of camera the photographer used who did the group picture [...]
Posted in Art and artists, Books, Movies, Nostalgia, Photographers Tagged black and white, celebrity, documentary, jeff bridges, journalism, panorama, photographer, widelux
By GW on 03/15/2009
I’m enjoying some Fireside Blend at Caribou this afternoon. With me is a Richard Bachman Stephen King book, Blaze: A Novel. I haven’t even cracked it open to read more yet, though; I keep seeing people I know and figure I can read a book any time, but some friends I rarely get to see. [...]
Posted in Books, friends, Local folks, Moblog, Photography Tagged books, Caribou Coffee, reading, Stephen King
By GW on 03/07/2009
This is an excerpt from the delightful Maeve Binchy novel, Tara Road. She had come to introduce the new element in her life, a puppy of indeterminate breed. Even the children, who loved animals, were puzzled by it. It seemed to have too many legs, yet there were only four; its head looked as if [...]
Posted in Books, Moblog, Movies, Pets Tagged Fiction, maeve binchy, novel, Pets, prose, puppy, road, tara, women, writers
