Browsing the ‘Review’ Category
Ender’s Game | 31st Jan 2010
Ender’s Game is one of those books that I’ve been meaning to read for a few years now, and I just never made time. It’s partly because I always imagined it was going to be too much sci-fi for me. I’m not sure why I tend to shy away from sci-fi books because [...]
Breakfast of Champions | 30th Jan 2010
Breakfast of Champions is the story of Dwayne Hoover, a car dealer obsessed with the writings of a science fiction author named Kilgore Trout. Hoover has requested that Trout be invited to speak at his town’s art festival. As Trout travels to the city, Hoover undergoes some sort of mental breakdown.
The [...]
The Sound of White | 3rd Jan 2010
My first encounter with singer-songwriter Missy Higgins was so positive that I had to check out her debut album, The Sound Of White. I have been eying this album for a while now, and I finally got it for Christmas this year.
I was turned on to this album after hearing All For Believing, Higgins’ [...]
Honeysuckle Weeks | 31st Dec 2009
I discovered The Submarines as many people did, even if they did not realize it. Their music plays in nearly every iPhone commercial, namely the songs You Me and the Bourgeoisie and Submarine Symphonika. I went in search of other music by The Submarines only to find that I liked a lot of [...]
The Lost Symbol | 30th Dec 2009
I spent the first week of my holiday break reading The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown. This novel follows a similar format to Brown’s previous Robert Langdon stories, The Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons. I enjoyed both of those stories a lot, which made reading this latest installment a no-brainer. [...]
A Man Without A Country Review | 31st Mar 2009
A Man Without A Country is something of a memoir by Kurt Vonnegut. It contains a number of passages he has written in recent years. Some of them are excerpts of articles he wrote as Senior Editor for In These Times, a political magazine out of Chicago. The passages are often short, containing [...]
Slaughterhouse-Five Review | 28th Mar 2009
I love Kurt Vonnegut. I don’t know how it could have taken me this long to realize it. If you’ve never read any of his books, you should take the time to make your next book one of his. I finished this one quite some time ago, but I realized I never [...]
On A Clear Night Review | 28th Mar 2009
Every week Amazon MP3 offers up the Friday Five. They sell 5 popular MP3 albums for $5 each. I grabbed Missy Higgins‘ album On A Clear Night on the Friday Five two weeks ago. I had actually been thinking about buying the album after hearing the song Steer on the music blog [...]
Breathing Life Into An Old Machine | 26th Mar 2009
Sadie’s family has an old Gateway desktop in their basement. Up until last Spring, it was the only computer their family had besides Sadie’s college laptop, which was starting to show its age. The desktop was probably purchased before the turn of the century, and it came with the lovely Windows ME operating [...]
Vampire Weekend Review | 25th Mar 2009
I discovered the band Vampire Weekend on The Hype Machine Zeitgeist 2008, where their self-titled album came in as the #3 album of the year according to hundreds of music bloggers. I sat down and listened to it all the way through using their lovely built-in player, and I found myself pleasantly surprised. [...]
I'm Jonathan Blackhall, a 3rd year medical student at RMC. This is my blog, where I ramble about technology, medicine, free software, and other random stuff. 
