Be Prepared - Gary Greenberg

5/5 - New dad handbook. Like what to expect, but for guys. Everything you need to know, little bit of humor, nothing you don't. Would recommend to other dads. May even be worth checking out again later on when Cadel gets closer to 1. Lots of activities and such.

BR - Red

3.5/5 Red - Ted Dekker

Two main plot lines still going on. Thomas Hunter is in the here and now fighting against the Raison Strain which has been released, but he's been killed in his other world where the hord is chaising them.

Getting very very biblical now. They crucify Justin who turns out to be Elyon. All the good guys get the plague and then need to rinse in Elyon's water to cleanse, now they never have to do it again since they killed Justin.

Will continue with White to finish up the series, but it looses originality when it's retelling another story.

BR - Europa Strike

5/5 - Europa Strike (3rd book in Heritage Trilogy) by Ian Douglas

Douglas keeps everything going here with the politics on Earth setting up a battle in space on Europa where a "singer" has been found. The singer ends up unleashing a distress call across the universe. We can only assume that in the sequel to the trilogy that the singer's message ends up with some bad aliens.

This was a fast read for being a long book, lots of good action, good characters, etc. Would definitely read the trilogy again, but for now need to read the following two trilogies.

Black - Ted Dekker

4/5 - Relatively quick read and nothing that dilly dallies too long. Premise guy wakes in one world (here), falls to sleep and wakes in another where good and evil are distinctly separated. Lots of parallels between worlds. In all a decent story, the Raison Strain is about to ravage the world. Gets a little hokey in the other wold with the Great Romance and the obvious allusion of Elyon to God.

Will read the next in the trilogy, but not highest on the list.

Heinlein - Citizen of the Galaxy

4/5 - As always Heinlein is hard to go wrong with. Kid gets bought as slave, raised by a beggar who turns out to be a secret agent trying to bring down slavery. Gets adopted to a space fairing "family" of traders and then turns out to be the baron of the world pretty much.

Loses a bit in the ending, was expecting something a bit more resolved. In all interesting ideas of family and acceptance. No crazy battles or anything, just a pretty decent read.

Mission of Gravity - Hal Clement

4/5

About life on another planet with 700X the gravity of earth at it's highest point. A trader is recruited by the humans to recover a rocket that crash landed, the trader wants to know science in exchange. Kind of an entertaining story about some other civilizations and problems dealing with higher gravity. Would recommend to a nerdy person like myself.

I Am Legend - Richard Matheson

4.5/5 Just as long as it needed to be.

Differed from the movie quite a bit. Lots of vampires (dead and alive) running amock - Robert trying to figure out what makes them tick. Comes up with some pretty reasonable explanations for vampire stuff (hemorrhaging when getting stuck with a stake, allergic to garlic, psychological reason for crosses).

Gets infiltrated by the vampires and they end up catching him. Tough ending, what it needed to be.

Good read, would recommend and read again. Fast.