Ken Reads

“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.” – Albert Einstein

“It’s strange how many people just don’t sit around thinking about reptile noses.” – Veil, Giant-Size Avengers Academy #1

(This review is also posted at the Book Nook Club, a group blog to which I contribute.) http://booknookclub.blogspot.com/2011/05/horton-halfpott-by-tom-angleberger.html (Disclosure: I did not receive anything for reviewing this book. I bought it, and the only discount I got was because I have a Barn

“The world almost came to an end. I’d like to go home and hug my baby” – Jessica Jones, Avengers#12.

“Boy, the Creator never made the Houses. Some forget it, but go far enough back in any House, and you’ll find a commoner who showed uncommon courage …,” Davram Bashere, Lord of Chaos by Robert Jordan, p. 574. (Wheel of Time series, book six)

“On the bright side of Zombie-geddon … I don’t have to be polite to my neighbors anymore” – Front cover, Nix Comics Quarterly #2.

… or, at least, a friend of mine has declared it so. My brother-in-law then noted that Google seems not to have heard of National Ellipsis Day. I’m hoping that by posting this, I’ll fix that problem AND hit the front page of a Google search … … even if it’s one that no one [...]

“Leo started to realize that an angry Cyclops mother was not something you wanted to fight with a universal remote and a screwdriver” – The Lost Hero by Rick Riordan, chapter 24. (I’m not sure how to cite a page number better, as I’m reading this in an e-book version.)

“Why dethrone a living, directing God from the sovereignty of His own earth? Why substitute an inanimate, deathlike abstraction, in place of an acting, controlling, personal Jehovah?” – Streams in the Desert by L. B. Cowman, page 130 (April 22 devotion).