In 1973, The Gods Themselves seemed poised to become a
perennial classic and a major piece of the science fiction canon.
Written by Isaac Asimov, an already acknowledged master of the genre,
it won the two highest awards bestowed upon books of its kind: the Hugo
and the Nebula. In recent years, however, other novels of its era have
overshadowed [...]

Tiffany Aching is having trouble. As a trainee witch she’s been
assigned to Miss Treason, a terrifying old woman who uses the eyes of
whatever is nearby to see (Including Tiffany’s own), a boyfriend being
held hostage by his evil relatives and just to make matters worse, the
spirit of Winter has fallen in love with her. Tiffany Aching [...]

I finally have the new platform up and running. Pretty, no? The old site was a mix of pages done by hand, using SSI for repeating elements, plus some cobbled together scripts for RSS-to-HTML displays on the front page, and wordpress blogs. This new site is entirely integrated, and has some fancy features both on [...]

Reading may be fundamental, but too many boys in middle school lack that critical educational building block.
For the last decade, educators fretted over the academic gender gap — girls outperforming boys on standardized tests — yet the divide remains obvious in reading.
There is plenty of blame to go around — disengaged parents, uninterested publishing houses, [...]

OSLO, Norway — Former Vice President Al Gore is a front-runner for the Nobel Peace Prize — if you believe some experts. Problem is, they’re only guessing.The Nobel awards, which are to be announced next week, cover a range of human endeavor, from peacemaking to scientific discovery to literature, yet share a tradition of mystery [...]

Jo Nesbo. HarperCollins, $24.95
Norwegian detective Harry Hole is immersed in a mystery with roots in World War II in this brilliant evocation of how the tentacles of the past cling to the present, and are the true instigators of action. This powerful novel delves into the complexity of belief and collaboration, and rises above the [...]

Kinsey Millhone has her hands full dealing with her elderly next-door neighbor and potential insurance fraud in Sue Grafton’s latest alphabet entry, “T Is for Trespass.” A live-in nurse arrives to watch over Kinsey’s neighbor, but is she who she claims to be? Grafton tackles identity theft and elder care with her usual literary skills.
COMING [...]

K.T. Bahr of Lynnwood said it was a slow addiction. It was something she called “evening meltdown time.”
She liked doing it because all of her head chatter left while she got her fix.
JOSHUA TRUJILLO / P-I
Rebecca Holmes is shown with one of the games she regularly plays, “Hexic,” in her office at Duo [...]

Reading may be fundamental, but too many boys in middle school lack that critical educational building block.
For the last decade, educators fretted over the academic gender gap — girls outperforming boys on standardized tests — yet the divide remains obvious in reading.
There is plenty of blame to go around — disengaged parents, uninterested publishing houses, [...]

OSLO, Norway — Former Vice President Al Gore is a front-runner for the Nobel Peace Prize — if you believe some experts. Problem is, they’re only guessing.The Nobel awards, which are to be announced next week, cover a range of human endeavor, from peacemaking to scientific discovery to literature, yet share a tradition of mystery [...]