Tag: Books

  • Mouse Guard Roleplaying Game

    Our son is a big fan of the Mouse Guard books. Which means he’s going to soon find this Mouse Guard game and want it. (Has great reviews.) As for his making a computer game, last night he announced that he realized he didn’t really want to try to program a game, he just wants…

  • The Invention of Hugo Cabret

    Filed under Silly Things. The perfect music for a book store stride? White Stripes’ Cannon. Pop in the ear buds and walk. Then the song ends but it’s all right because you’re now in the back of store looking for the book with at least a modicum of text that your artistic kid might possibly…

  • “Diary of a Wimpy Kid”

    H.o.p. has discovered the “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” series of books. He polished off the second one in one night.

  • Testimony of the Sonderkommando

    This will be perhaps the toughest book I’ve ever read and hope I am ever likely to read. By way of the internet, I came upon Gideon Grief’s “We Wept Without Tears; Testimonies of the Jewish Sonderkommando from Auschwitz”. How I came upon it was first I had read a NY Times story of Dina…