Joe Beernink

I picked up this book at a grocery store while on vacation in Canada. I had read myself through the book I had planned to keep me busy for the entire...

I posted a book review yesterday over on my other, slightly neglected blog site DevScape for a technical book called The Nomadic Developer by Aaron Erickson. The book, and the blog,...

I will admit that until John Scalzi wrote Fuzzy Nation, I had never heard of Little Fuzzy or even H. Beam Piper.  Piper wrote Little Fuzzy back in 1962 and was...

No one will ever accuse Jasper Fforde of being unoriginal. His Thursday Next Chronicles were some of the most unique story concepts I have ever read: Thursday Next is a literary...

Before Susan Collins’ career caught fire with the Hunger Games, she wrote a series of books about a boy named Gregor who falls through a grate in the laundry room of...

That is not a typo or a joke. I actually read Twilight.  And I read 450 of 498 pages in a single day. Before you lose all respect for me, let...

  After reading the previous book in this series, Shadow Puppets, I was a little reluctant to pick this book up.  I did it because my wife said it was better,...

First off, this is obviously not the normal kind of book that I review here and doesn’t signal a change in the subject matter of this blog. This is also not...

Dreadnought is the second book in the Clockwork Century Series by Cherie Priest, following the, um, groundbreaking hit,  Boneshaker. (Sorry, had to do that). While Dreadnought shares the same universe and...

If you’ve read this blog since the beginning, you already know I’m a big John Scalzi fan.  I’ve reviewed his science fiction books, mentioned his blog, and submitted short stories to...