Wednesday Knights Blog

Greg Iles is one of my favorite authors. Therefore, I was quite excited to dive into his latest book: True Evil. I was not disappointed. It is probably my favorite Iles book since Mortal Fear.
The basic premise of True Evil is that a divorce attorney is providing a service to the super wealthy in which, [...]

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Bloody Mary is the second book in the Jack Daniels series by J.A. Konrath. As you can likely surmise from the name of the book and the main character, this is not a “serious” literary book. Instead, it is a  fun and enjoyable detective novel.
Jack Daniels, the main character, is not your typical detective protagonist. [...]

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Not long ago, Wil Wheaton mentioned that he had watched This Film Is Not Yet Rated. Wil gave the movie “4.5 out of 5, and the official WWdN Happy Monkey of Goodness Seal of Approval.”
After watching the movie, I agree with Wil. The film, a documentary, deals with the MPAA and the manner in which [...]

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In October, John Scalzi placed an advance reader copy of his new book, The Last Colony, up for auction. The auction was to benefit the John M. Ford Book Endowment. In his post announcing the auction, Scalzi added additional bonuses (additional books or ARCs) if certain bidding levels were reached. The final level was $5,000. [...]

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I am working on the next installment of my Pirates! campaign and I am always on the lookout for good ideas. To that end, I recently picked up Ships and Sea Battles from AEG.
Like all of their 7th Sea Products, this books contains well presented background material for that system. Although I do not use [...]

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I just completed Mind Catcher by John Darnton. The book explores the idea of consciousness and its connection to our physical body.
Tyler Jessup, 13 years old, is seriously injured when a piece of climbing equipment strikes him in the head and becomes embedded in his brain. The boy’s father is persuaded to let an [...]

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In 2002 Alderac Entertainment Group published a booked called Swashbuckling Adventures. That book is a great resource for anyone running a d20 fantasy game.
I originally purchased the book as a resource for my Pirates! campaign. It has a picture of a pirate on the front and was called Swashbuckling Adventures. Perfect for a pirate campaign. [...]

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Ok, I know this has absolutely nothing to do with gaming, or anything related to gaming. However, I just finished the book Freakonomics  and it completely rocks. I have heard about the book for a while but I had never picked it up.
About a month ago I ended up at the authors’ blog when they [...]

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No Dominion is the second book in a series about Joe Pitt, an unlicensed private investigator in New York City that is a vampyre. I almost did not read this book simply because I have never really enjoyed vampire stories. However, I loved Huston’s Hank Thompson trilogy (Caught Stealing, Six Bad Things, and A Dangerous [...]

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