A Gently Mad Blog Recommendations

I finished Blindsight by PETER WATTS the other night and I was blown away. This guy can write.
I have picked through Parasite Rex : Inside the Bizarre World of Nature’s Most Dangerous Creatures at the bookstore and I finally purchased a copy. This book was referenced by SCOTT WESTERFELD as a inspiration [...]

Weekly Recommendations- Grad School Edition

As I stated in the previous post I am a trained historian and a living, walking cliche. But enough of that. On to the graduate school edition of Weekly Recommendations.
I went through college concentrating on military and American Civil War history. I found myself getting a little bored [...]

Weekly Recommendations- History Style

I am a trained historian. I have my BA from Gettysburg College and my MA from Monmouth University. I sell insurance. Which makes me the greatest living cliche ever.
History has always been a subject that I loved. I read it as much as I can but I [...]

This Week’s Recommendations- Skeptic Edition

Call me a killjoy, wet blanket, cynic(actually don’t, if you do, you don’t know what a skeptic is), or any other word you can think of for me but with this week’s recommendations list I’m going to give you a few books that may help you think critically about such things [...]

Must Haves

I run the Horror Fiction News Network. It is what the title suggests a news site for horror fiction. An off shoot site is The Reading Room@HFNN which hosts excerpts of horror novels, reviews by me, and now something new.
Building a collection of books is a time consuming hobby. Deciding what should [...]