Joe Beernink

My wife read The Maze Runner by James Dashner a few weeks before I did, and told me I would really like it.  She said it was right up my alley. ...

If you look at my bookshelf, you will see that I have over half a long shelf devoted to Bernard Cornwell’s writing.  It’s not just that he is prolific – which...

  It didn’t take me long to get around to reading Stieg Larsson’s second book in his Millennium series, The Girl Who Played with Fire. It’s a long book at over...

My introduction to Steam Punk was Cherie Priest’s book Boneshaker which I read back in 2009 after meeting her at the PNWA Conference.  I loved it.  I then read a Steam...

Judging by the number of people I’ve seen on the train reading Stieg Larsson’s books in the past two years, I know I’m late to the party on this one.  The...

I’m a big, big John Scalzi fan.  I started reading his blog and his books in early 2010.  I haven’t read all his books yet, but I’m getting there.  My latest...

I don’t read non-fiction, not related to writing or software development, very often.  I will read historical fiction, but in general, I read books in my leisure time to get away...

When you pick up the hardcover edition of The Passage by Justin Cronin, you know you are not going to be able to take this one everywhere you go.  It’s huge. ...

One of my all time favorite books is Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card.  He also wrote one of my least favorite books, Empire.  Shadow Puppets falls somewhere in between, though...

I held off as long as I could in reading Suzanne Collin’s final book in the Hunger Games series, Mockingjay, not because I didn’t want to read it, but because I...