The Wax Pack: On the Open Road in Search of Baseball’s AfterlifeBrad BalukjianUniversity of Nebraska Press2020 Have you ever looked back at your old baseball cards and wondered what happened to some of the players? Brad Balukjian bought a pack of 1986 Topps and tracked down the 14 players in the pack to interview. Balukjian’s…
Best.Movie.Year.Ever.: How 1999 Blew Up the Big ScreenBrian RafterySimon Schuster Publishing2019 I didn’t remember how good of a year for movies 1999 was until I got this book. At the time, I was a part time assistant manager at a Blockbuster Video who would work a couple of weekends a month while in college. I…
As I got ready to view The Force Awakens for the first time, I started to pick up the books and comics that make up the new canon. The first one I found was Lost Stars by Claudia Gray. The young adult novel deals with 2 children that grow up within the Empire and spans…
Author: Andy Weir Don’t get this confused with the movie that’s coming out; the movie is based off this book. And based off the book, I’ll be seeing the movie. The book is told in an interesting fashion; everything in the first part of the book is just the transcibed journal of Mark Watney, an…
