My Most Recent Blog Posts

The Light Fantastic

iopele — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:29:44 -0500

I love Terry Pratchett! His Discworld books are utterly brilliant. This is the 2nd book in the Discworld series, but they can be read out of order without distress--he's a master of that. Really, anyone who can read should read these books. I can't imagine anyone disliking them. They're that good.

The South Beach Diet

iopele — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:27:32 -0500

I've gained too much weight over the last 2 years--almost 50 pounds--and I really want it to come off. This diet appeals to me because it originated as a heart-healthy diet that had the side effect of weight loss, and my family history is really bad with heart attacks, strokes, and a personal diagnosis of hypertension last year at age 30. So far it's going very well with 5 pounds lost, and lik

One Bite Stand

iopele — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 09:04:36 -0500

I always enjoy Nina Bangs' books. Her characters are so original! This story wasn't as super-hot as other ones, and I do like really spicy books, but it was a fantastic story with rich characters. Always fun to read her work.

Behind The Wire--An Military Intelligence Soldier's Inside Look At Guantanamo Bay by Erik Saar and Viveca Novak

iopele — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 16:51:12 -0500

Mort by Terry Pratchett

iopele — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 22:20:21 -0500

A Discworld saga wherein Death--you know him, rather thin fellow, handy in the scythe department--takes an apprentice, an ordinary boy appropriately named Mort. Watch as he mucks out Binky's (that would be Death's dread steed) stable, gets to know Death's daughter, and tears the very fabric of reality.

Cell by Stephen King

iopele — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 22:15:02 -0500

Another end-of-the-world epic from King. One average day, a Pulse is sent through cell phones that drives anyone who hears it mad. Survivors band together and try to decide what to do about the "phone-crazies" or "phoners" who are dangerous as wild animals--yet somehow are managing to communicate mind-to-mind...

The Stand by Stephen King

iopele — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 21:57:16 -0500

One of my all-time favorite books, The Stand is an end-of-the-world saga as only Stephen King can tell it. When the US government's secret bioterror lab suffers a catastrophic failure, a super-flu virus is released which wipes out something like 95% of the world's population. Those left alive must not only find a way to survive and regroup, they also fight a battle between God and the devil fo