Nicholas Bruner
Fantasy, Science Fiction, and Young Adult Author
Category: nfp
What I’m Reading: Counting by 7s
True story: Under the “Taste Preferences” tab in Netflix, where you can review what sort of movies Netflix believes you like to see, my wife and I have earned a “never watch” in the categories of feel-good, inspiring, and sentimental. With that in mind,… Continue Reading “What I’m Reading: Counting by 7s”
Ranking the X-Men Movies
Today, my son and I saw X-Men: Days of Future Past, based on a much-loved X-Men story arc from the 80s. It starts in the not-so-distant future, when robots called Sentinels have hunted down nearly all mutants on Earth, and the few remaining X-Men… Continue Reading “Ranking the X-Men Movies”
What I’m Reading: Becoming Mr. October
So here’s my baseball book for this year: Becoming Mr. October, by Reggie Jackson. I saw it on the New Arrivals stand at the library and picked it right up. Reggie gives us a few chapters on growing up in a small town in… Continue Reading “What I’m Reading: Becoming Mr. October”
What I’m Reading: The Reason I Jump
The Reason I Jump was written by Naoki Higashida, a thirteen-year-old Japanese boy with autism. Though unable to verbalize his thoughts in normal speech, his mother created something called the “alphabet grid” that allows him to communicate. He has both a keyboard version for typing… Continue Reading “What I’m Reading: The Reason I Jump”
What I’m Reading: Grind Joint
Grind Joint is another Writers of Chantilly book, this one by long-time member Dana King. It’s a hard-boiled mystery about a good cop, “Doc” Dougherty, in Penns River, a once-prosperous but now dumpy industrial town. The title refers to the new casino in town–a grind… Continue Reading “What I’m Reading: Grind Joint”
What I’m Reading: Red Flag Warning
A couple years ago somebody got me the book The Big Burn by Timothy Egan, because the person knew “I like history books.” At first this seemed like a terrible choice. Sure, I like history, but a book about a forest fire in Idaho a… Continue Reading “What I’m Reading: Red Flag Warning”
What I’ve Been Reading: The Wonder of Girls
The Wonder of Girls, by Michael Gurian, is a companion book to one I read a couple years ago, The Wonder of Boys. The two books attempt to fill a gap in how our society understands the minds and behavior of girls and boys,… Continue Reading “What I’ve Been Reading: The Wonder of Girls”
