Danny Sullivan

The Magazines I Read (& Collect & Store & Haul Across Countries)

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The latest meme going around is what magazines do you read. Barry tagged me. This is a subject I can’t answer quickly. What magazines I read now leads into my long and involved history with magazines since I was a child, including lugging magazines across two different continents and the importance of plastic bins. You want […]

4th Of July Books For The Kids

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It’s the Fourth of July tomorrow, and yes — I celebrate it despite being in Britain. In fact, we’ll have our annual party tomorrow with neighbors and friends coming over. But before that tradition, I’m in the midst of another one, reading various books about the 4th of July and America to the kids. Sam […]

The Neanderthal Parallax Trilogy: Hominids, Humans & Hybrids

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Some long flights and airport waiting gave me time to whip through The Neanderthal Parallax, a trilogy of books from one of my favorite SF authors, Robert J. Sawyer. It’s a great alternative history/universe romp. Hominds Hominids kicks it off, with a Neanderthal suddenly appearing in the middle of a neutrino detection tank in Canada. […]

American Pioneer Book For Kids

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One of tonight’s bedtime books was You Wouldn’t Want to Be an American Pioneer! This was another great find I came across on a trip back home recently. It’s both well illustrated and chock full of information on what it was like to cross the country back in the 1800s. The kids especially like the […]

Thanksgiving Books For Young Kids

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While the rest of the UK may be going along like normal, Thanksgiving is coming up in our household and the Thanksgiving books are coming out for the kids, our boys aged 6 and 4. I picked up a great new one while back in California in October, Thank You, Sarah. It tells the story about […]