Just my random posts
Retiring my Amazon Kindle Paperwhite after over 10 years. (Had to look that one up.) Moving to Kobo since it supports my local library eBook borrowing services. While I’ve been using Kindles for over a decade, I hate their walled garden approach to books.
I’ll still keep the Kindle around, so I can access the eBooks I own on that platform. But, it’s Kobo all the way now. Plus the colour e-ink is so cool, especially for comics 🤓
2021 is just about done, so decided to stitched together some of the many, many, probably too many pics I take to remember the year.
There were a lot of great times in 2021. Meeting up with friends and family. Going for sports again, baseball, hockey and boxing! Trips to Niagara, Barrie, camping for the first time even!
Anyways, wishing everyone a Very Happy New Year. All the best in 2022!!! 🍻
The news recently broke that the Brampton Beast ECHL hockey club is folding after seven years in the league. As a result of the global pandemic, it was no longer financially viable for the team to continue to operate. I have been following the team for many of those years and was a season ticket holder the last three seasons. This was very sad for me and other fans, who supported the team, but understandable in these difficult times. I decided to outline some of my favourite moments with Canada
Just a quick post, wishing a Merry Christmas to the world in this difficult year!
Reading The Stand in 2020 was an eerie experience. The book starts at the beginning of a global pandemic and continues from there. Needless to explain the similarities with the world today. However, this virus, known as the Superflu, Captain Trips or The Blue Virus, had a less than 1 percent survival rate. It was scary seeing how quickly the virus spread and how quickly society collapsed. Those who remained were drawn to one of two sides, good or evil. King, as usual, did a great job building up the survivors and explaining their motives. While there was a lot of tragedy, which is expected in a apocalypse book, there were a handful of positive moments, where people helped each other and started rebuilding society. At first, it seemed idyllic, but as time went on the usual problems started to appear. To quote sociology professor Glen Bateman:
The Residence is a book about the haunting of the White House during President Franklin Pierce’s term written by Andrew Pyper. The timing seemed perfect to read this book since it
The subtitle of this book is The Hunger Games #0. However, it actually covers the 10th hunger games. It mainly takes place in the Captial. Not the glamorous Captial in the original trilogy, but instead a battered, war damaged city in the middle of being rebuilt after the district war.
Being relatively new, many changes were implemented during this Hunger Games, such as gambling, sponsor donations and television appearances for tributes. We are presented with a teenage Coriolanus Snow who is part of a new mentor system for the tributes representing the 12 districts in the Hunger Games. We learn a lot about the youth who would grow up to become the brutal President Snow, such as his experiences during the district war and the aftermath. Not to give the plot away, this book provides a clear picture of how Snow became the man he was in the original trilogy. As their family saying goes,
I first heard about this book while listening to an interview podcast episode on The Verge with the author Sarah Frier. It sounded very interesting and so I decided to give it a chance. After finishing No Filter, I don
The Century Trilogy begins with Fall of Giants which starts at the beginning of the 1900
