Nicholas Bruner
Fantasy, Science Fiction, and Young Adult Author
Tag: book reviews
What I’m Reading: Action Philosophers
Okay, I have one more horror movie to review for the season, but first let’s get to a book I recently finished, Action Philosophers, a non-fiction graphic novel providing biographies of forty philosophers, from Ancient Greece to the contemporary world. This book is awfully… Continue Reading “What I’m Reading: Action Philosophers”
What I’m Reading: Roundup
On Free Comic Book Day back in May, I picked up some of the sale books at my local comic shop. Let’s go over a couple of those: The Building Starting in 1978 with his A Contract With God, Will Eisner, already a legendary… Continue Reading “What I’m Reading: Roundup”
What I’m Reading: 84 Paws: A Life with Old Labs
I’ve read another book by a fellow Writers of Chantilly author, this one titled 84 Paws: A Life with Old Labs, by Barbara Travis Osgood. This one is a memoir about Barbara’s life with mental illness, and her life with a series of rescued… Continue Reading “What I’m Reading: 84 Paws: A Life with Old Labs”
What I’m Reading: Timaeus and Critias
I’m behind on logging my reading. Let’s start with Plato’s Timaeus and Critias, twin works that take place on the same day. Although Socrates is a character, as usual in Plato’s dialogues, he does not take a starring role in these two. Rather, his… Continue Reading “What I’m Reading: Timaeus and Critias”
What I’m Reading: This Is Not a Love Scene
What a treat, a book by my fellow Writers of Chantilly writer, S.C. Megale! This Is Not a Love Scene is Megale’s first published novel, although she’s well known at the writer’s group table for a number of books she’s read to us over… Continue Reading “What I’m Reading: This Is Not a Love Scene”
What I’m Reading: Medieval Cities: Their Origins and the Revival of Trade
Medieval Cities, by French professor Henri Pirenne, was published in 1952 but is the synthesis and culmination of lectures he had been building on since the 1920s. I believe Dr. Pirenne was the one who came up with the theory that it was not… Continue Reading “What I’m Reading: Medieval Cities: Their Origins and the Revival of Trade”
What I’m Reading: Ten-Seven
Ten-Seven is the second Penns River Crime Novel I’ve read by Dana King (I reviewed the first one, Grind Joint, here) and it’s a special pleasure for me to read it not only because Dana is a fellow member of my writer’s group, but because he… Continue Reading “What I’m Reading: Ten-Seven”
What I’m Reading: Change-Up: Mystery at the World Series
Change-Up: Mystery at the World Series is one of the books my son is reading for his Battle of the Books team at school. (I recently read Re-Start, another of the books he’s reading for BoB.) I can see why Virginia picked this one for… Continue Reading “What I’m Reading: Change-Up: Mystery at the World Series”
