Empire of the Sun

http://www.lvrj.com/blogs/booknook/Remembering_JG_Ballard_and_his_Empire_of_the_Sun.html

Yet another gushy review.

Star Trek

I saw the new Star Trek movie on Memorial Day.

Good movie, lots of action.

Winona Ryder was Amanda Grayson (Spock's human mother).

Some weird aspects with a black hole, time travel, and alternate reality.

Patricia McKilip

http://www.lvrj.com/blogs/booknook/The_Forgotten_Beasts_of_Eld_magical.html

Review of The Forgotten Beasts of Eld.

The book won a World Fantasy Award in 1975.

Boone

http://www.lvrj.com/blogs/booknook/Boone_A_Biography.html

Review of biography of Daniel Boone.

Sounds like an interesting book.

I Just Stopped by to See the Man

http://www.milwaukeerep.com/season/performancedetails.php?ID=139

This afternoon, we attended the Milwaukee Rep performance of I Just Stopped by to See the Man at the Stiemke Theater.

Powerful story, talented cast, and awesome music.

Turn Coat

Butcher proves himself a master of urban fantasy in this tightly plotted, fast-moving story that plunges his main character into a dire series of choice and consequence.

- reviewjournal.com (link here)

I have not read all the Dresden novels, but I have enjoyed every one I did read.

A nautical mystery

Clyde Ford’s nautical mystery novel, “Precious Cargo,” takes the reader on a journey into the Inside Passage, the waterway between western Canada-southern Alaska and a series of islands.

- reviewjournal.com (link here)

Might be an interesting book.