Nicholas Bruner
Fantasy, Science Fiction, and Young Adult Author
Category: nfp
What I’m Reading: Five Dialogues
Plato’s Five Dialogues is comprised of five short dialogues, each about 20-40 pages, and which all star Plato’s teacher Socrates as the main speaker. The dialogues have to do with the trial and execution of Socrates by the city of Athens in 399 BC on… Continue Reading “What I’m Reading: Five Dialogues”
What I’m Reading: The Wrenchies
My friend who’s into really weird comics loaned me the graphic novel The Wrenchies, by Farel Dalrymple. This one is pretty bizarre, but pretty great as well, and is probably one of the best loans I’ve gotten from my buddy. It’s tough to describe succinctly what’s… Continue Reading “What I’m Reading: The Wrenchies”
What I’m Reading: The Walking Dead: Safety Behind Bars
The Walking Dead: Safety Behind Bars is the third collection of the Walking Dead, collecting issues #13-18. Of course, now the Walking Dead is a huge phenomenon with the TV show and action figures and lunch boxes (?), but it started off back in 2003… Continue Reading “What I’m Reading: The Walking Dead: Safety Behind Bars”
What I’m Reading: The Race Underground
The Race Underground by Doug Most is an account of the race at the end of the 19th century between Boston and New York to build America’s first subway. Actually, the title is somewhat of an exaggeration–it wasn’t much of a race, as Boston won… Continue Reading “What I’m Reading: The Race Underground”
Reading Goals for 2015
OK, we’ve done the writing goals in 2015, let’s do the reading goals as well. I’ve discussed before that in any given year, I have some general reading goals:1) a baseball book, during baseball season (in 2014, this was a memoir by Reggie Jackson)2)… Continue Reading “Reading Goals for 2015”
What I’m Reading: The Epic of Gilgamesh
The Epic of Gilgamesh is the world’s oldest known story. Although our most complete version of it is from Assyria around 700 B.C., fragments of the story have been found from as far back as 2,000-ish B.C. Any writing that we have older than that… Continue Reading “What I’m Reading: The Epic of Gilgamesh”
Ranking the non-DC and non-Marvel Comic Movies
So far I’ve ranked the Batman movies, the Superman movies, the other DC movies, the Avengers movies, and the X-Men movies. There’s only one major franchise of super-hero movies I haven’t ranked yet, and that is the Spider-Man franchise. But for now, let’s rank the comic-based movies that… Continue Reading “Ranking the non-DC and non-Marvel Comic Movies”
What I’m Reading: Safe Area Gorazde
Gorazde is a town in Bosnia. During the Bosnian war from 1992-95, it was one of four safe areas for Bosnian Muslims that the UN negotiated with the Serb militia. Of the four, it was the smallest and most remote, so it rarely made… Continue Reading “What I’m Reading: Safe Area Gorazde”
