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Monthly Book Review – January

Feb 1st

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Last April I joined the Goodreads website as a way to get suggestions based off authors and series I like and have enjoyed previously. Since then I have added approx. 400 books to my “read” collection, added another 130 that I still want to read, and actually read 140 books. This year I set my reading goal at 150 books for the year, but it looks like I’ll go way over it as I read 38 books last monthly alone, with the really nice part being that nearly all of those books were recommendations from Goodreads!

Why am I mentioning Goodreads so much? Well, since I am reading all of these books, I want to share some of the better books and series that I’ve found, and since I rarely can explain the benefits of a book well, I’ll leave that responsibility up to Goodreads’ descriptions, covers, user reviews, and related books! I won’t be reviewing the books myself, though I may make the occasional connection to another series or author, but instead I’ll post some specific books or series each month that I really enjoyed from the previous month.

Enjoy! :)

 

Book of the Month: Cinder by Marissa Meyer

Cinder

Cinder (Lunar Chronicles #1) by Marissa Meyer

Humans and androids crowd the raucous streets of New Beijing. A deadly plague ravages the population. From space, a ruthless lunar people watch, waiting to make their move. No one knows that Earth’s fate hinges on one girl…

Cinder, a gifted mechanic, is a cyborg. She’s a second-class citizen with a mysterious past, reviled by her stepmother and blamed for her stepsister’s illness. But when her life becomes intertwined with the handsome Prince Kai’s, she suddenly finds herself at the center of an intergalactic struggle, and a forbidden attraction. Caught between duty and freedom, loyalty and betrayal, she must uncover secrets about her past in order to protect her world’s future.


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Hello Ferengi, a WordPress Plugin

Nov 10th

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In the time honored tradition of reusing other people’s hard work, I have combined the Ferengi Rules of Acquisition with ever-fun concept from Hello Dolly to create a new quote plugin…

For fans of Star Trek, or any Ferengi out there, I present Hello Ferengi, a Ferengi’s slave to teaching non-Ferengi the proper rules of business and profit! Hello Ferengi is a small, fun plugin which will display a random Rule of Acquisition on the top-right of every administration page… but is that all?

Of course not, because I know the two-hundred and forty-second Rule of Acquisition…

“More is good … all is better.”

Shortcode and Rules

[ferengi num="7" tag="0"] ## "Keep your ears open."
  • num: defaults to 0; accepts 81 values (see below) that will return a Rule
    • 0: a random Rule from the 80 known Rules of Acquisition
    • 6R: the Sixth Rule according to Enterprise canon
    • … and 79 misc., non-sequential numbers ranging from 1-286
  • tag: defaults to -1; defines if you want the ROA Number tag returned or not
    • 1: always show the tag
    • 0: never show the tag
    • -1: only show the tag if getting a random Rule

For the avid Star Trek fans…

But there are only 285 Official Rules of Acquisition!
Rule #286 may only be an unoffical Rule of Deep Space 9‘s Quark, but it is a very good rule.

What is the difference between 6 and 6R?
The series Enterprise said the Sixth Rule was something different from a previous declartion, so I labeled it as 6 Revised, or simply 6R, and left Deep Space 9‘s version of the Sixth Rule as 6.

–=Download Hello Ferengi Now!=–

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Neeley’s Thirteen Rules

Aug 19th

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These rules are courtesy of the StarFist series by David Sherman and Dan Cragg.

Neeley’s Thirteen* Rules for Staying Alive in Combat

  1. Incoming fire always has the right-of-way.
  2. Keep it simple, stupid.
  3. Keeping it simple is the hardest thing in the world.
  4. Never stand next to anyone braver than you are.
  5. If things are going too well, it’s an ambush.
  6. The easiest way is mined.
  7. The one thing you never run out of is the enemy.
  8. Infrared works both ways.
  9. Professionals are always predictable.
  10. We always wind up fighting amateurs.
  11. When the enemy’s in range, so are you.
  12. When in doubt, shoot until your magazine is empty.
  13. Remember the other twelve.

* I have seen a Fourteen Rules … version as well, which included “Never stand next to anyone dumber than you are,” but haven’t found it yet in the books I’ve read thus far.

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