Last year I decided to focus on speculative fiction for our assigned reading. One of the final books we read was Hunger Games. I planned out our books for the year over a year earlier, and as we read Hunger Games when the Quarantine was just starting and the kids were finding a … [Read more...]

When we drove out to Colonial Williamsburg last time I thought to have the kids listen to Swiss Family Robinson. Jeff had raved about how much he enjoyed reading it as a child, and how fun it was to listen to them figure out how to survive on the island. We started listening to … [Read more...]

Jules Verne is a pioneer of science fiction, he created many of the tropes that we see as common in science fiction today, and many of his books predicted technology we think of as commonplace now. That's why we had a Journey to the Center of the Earth book club a few years ago. … [Read more...]

Back in high school, I probably saw was too many movies, and I do remember going to see Starship Troopers, and aside from the gratuitous nudity thrown in there, I remember enjoying it. Then I talked with Jeff years later about that movie and he hated it because he had read the … [Read more...]