Archive for April, 2008
Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
The Sea of Monsters (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, book 2), by Rick Riordan
Rick Riordan is apparently better known for writing mysteries than children’s novels, but this is the second book in his Percy Jackson series. Book 1 was reviewed here; book 3′s review will probably be within the next week, and book 4 is set to be released in a couple months. Percy, if you will recall, [...]
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Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
The Akhenaten Adventure (Children of the Lamp, book 1), by P. B. Kerr
I borrowed this book from Ben’s mom, again, based on the premise: twelve-year-old twins who find out that they’re actually djinn. In case anyone cares, P. B. Kerr is male, and this is the first book of four so far. His website is moderately quirky, but I was loath to poke around too much, since [...]
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Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
The Story of Ping, by Marjorie Flack and Kurt Wiese
Using deft allegory, the authors have provided an insightful and intuitive explanation of one of Unix’s most venerable networking utilities. Even more stunning is that they were clearly working with a very early beta of the program, as their book first appeared in 1933, years (decades!) before the operating system and network infrastructure were finalized. [...]