Author: Jon Moss

Book Review: To Kill a Mockingbird by Lee (4 Stars)

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

4 out of 5 stars

Read in June 2009

As Atticus said “Rape, riot and runaways” mixed together with prejudice and intolerance told from the eyes of a spunky young girl nicknamed Scout in 1930s Maycomb Alabama. The antics of the children, Scout, Jem and Dill, caused me to shake my head in wonder. But the adult antics merely sickened me, aside from the glimmering lights in the darkness of Atticus, Miss Maudie and Arthur Radley.

The story was well written and sparks discussion even today. Lest History repeat itself, I recommend this to everyone so that we can all be on guard against bigotry and discrimination.

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Book Review: Those Who Hunt the Night by Hambly (3.5 Stars)

Those Who Hunt the Night by Barbara Hambly

3.5 out of 5 stars

Read in October 2009

Vampires without the romance. Very refreshing. Well drawn historical setting in late 19th or early 20th century London and Paris.

James Asher, a professor of philology at Oxford, and his wife Lydia, also a doctor, but of medicine, are reluctantly coerced into investigating the case of a serial vampire killer. Don Simon Ysidro, a Spanish vampire old enough to remember (and barely survive) the great London fire of 1666, forces James into his service by threatening Lydia’s life.

Rather than risking his wife’s precarious safety and sending her into hiding, he recruits her help in tracking down both the vampire killer, and the vampire victims haunts and hidey-holes. Lydia pursues the research through probate courts, registrar of deed office, newspaper articles and other public records and resist’s the siren call of the medical pathology mystery of vampirism while James accompanies Ysidro to interrogate London’s undead citizens.

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Article: Why Everyone Should Be Reading Ancillary Justice

Why Everyone Should Be Reading Ancillary Justice

http://www.kameronhurley.com/?p=13346

I read Ancillary Justice last week but no time to write a review yet.  Read this review (follow link above) because she nails it.

And I agree … go buy this book right now and read it.

Article: NSA reportedly collecting millions of email address books and IM contact lists worldwide

NSA reportedly collecting millions of email address books and IM contact lists worldwide

http://www.theverge.com/2013/10/14/4838966/nsa-reportedly-collecting-millions-of-email-address-books-and-im

Reminds me of the days of my youth and the party-line telephone our family shared with about four of our neighbors. Only this time it’s not the farmer’s wife next door that’s eavesdropping … it’s good old not-so-trustworthy Uncle Sam.

Article: Family Driven from Maryville, Missouri Home After Daughter’s Rape by Student Athlete

Family Driven from Maryville, Missouri Home After Daughter’s Rape by Student Athlete

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2013/10/family-driven-maryville-missouri-home-after-teen-sex-scandal/70489/

Thank Gid I don’t live in Misery, er, I mean Missouri.   I just work in this state, unfortunately.