Entries from April 2008

April 30, 2008

As You Like It

As I said the other day seeing a play with a bit of Shakespeare put me in the mood to read some Shakespeare. I had this book lying around and decided to read it. It takes me a while to read Shakespeare. This book was only about 100 pages of actual text. The rest of [...]

April 28, 2008

“I Hate Hamlet”

Yesterday it was a horrible day so I took the opportunity to go and visit our local theatrical group. I usually try and visit the ‘Little Theatre’ whenever they are putting on a comedy. The director for “I Hate Hamlet” was Mike McCalment who has been very good starring in comedies so I thought he [...]

April 9, 2008

Six Brave Presidents

This was a book that I picked up at the library sale last summer. I found a bunch of Kennedy books for a quarter and picked them up. I left them in a bag and forgot all about them. I decided to try one after work today, and I am done with it already. The [...]

April 9, 2008

Echo Park

Once again Mr. Connelly had me. I stayed up until almost midnight last night reading this book. I am reading the Harry Bosch series in reverse right now. This is the second to last book in the series so far. Maybe I can research a little more and pick up a book in the beginning. [...]

April 1, 2008

Harry Potter and the Order of the Pheonix

I have not read a Harry Potter book for almost five years. I read one the summer before I moved to Iowa. I really like the series, but the fifth book was 896 pages. That just seemed very daunting to me. I used to read Stephan King books that were much longer than that, but [...]