After a short break I’m back to my “Family Room Series” of photos for a few more days. I couldn’t envision a family room without books. I love to read and books have played a large part in my life.
My love of reading began at an early age with my mother reading to me. I [...]
Late autumn beside the river
About a month ago I was surprised by my wife giving me a Kindle electronic book reader from Amazon. While I’d looked at this devices in the past I’d always thought that I’d miss the experience of the physical book, the touch and turning of the actual pages. Receiving this device [...]
I did my first “flowed” of images into the templates I’d created for my SoFoBoMo ‘09 book and was pleased to discover that adding this level of structure helped consolidate my thoughts and design. I’m using Adobe Indesign with previously created page templates so it was an easy pick and drop process.
I’d decided on initial [...]
by Earl on September 15, 2008
in Books
I’ve been lax in keeping the “Now Reading” section of this blog updated. It’s not that I’m not reading, it’s perhaps a case of feeling like who cares I guess.
I’ve considered doing away with this section entirely, but for now I’ll keep it and do better with updating. After all how could I expect anyone [...]
by Earl on June 17, 2007
in Books
The more the stories are anchored in reality the more believable the story and them more I enjoy them.I don’t usually do book reviews here, but I recently finished reading an excellent Novel called “The Swarm” by Frank Schatzing. The Swarm is a techno-thriller about man’s terrible destruction of the Earth’s fragile ecology and the resulting consequences when the real keepers of the Earth determine we are a threat to their existence…. Frank Schatzing is a German author who case a very believable story based on the current day situation.