Posts Tagged ‘review’

One of the pleasures I have these days are the advance copies of books I get to review for Nerd Dads. The best part about it is that I've been exposed to a number of titles that I wouldn't have otherwise even known existed. Most titles I get seem to skew a few years older [...]

One of the cooler things about having a site like Nerd Dads is the opportunity to review things that I might not normally get my hands on, be it books, iPod apps or whatever. So when I was approached by modern furniture retailer, AllModern.com, and asked if I'd be interested in reviewing a product of [...]

For my money, one of the webcomics that's best positioned to become huge when the inevitable color ebook reader hits is THE ZOMBIE HUNTERS. It's a continuing story that has, at this point, a fanbase of 25-30,000 readers (at least according to the stats provided by Project Wonderful), is full-color with a traditional vertical page [...]

At first glance, this book appeared to be too young for The Kid™. The pictures are big and friendly, as expected from the artist from the "How Do Dinosaurs...?" series, Mark Teague, but there aren't a lot of words on the pages. In fact, the book averages a sentence for every two-page spread. However, once [...]

(The Dads' Book) For The Dad Who's Best At Everything is, if nothing else, an interesting book. It oscillates, sometimes wildly, between humorous bits and pages of legitimate and earnest advice for both new dads and those of us who have been doing this for a while, but are still constantly entering new and mysterious [...]

Those of us who grew up in the 80s, and to a slightly lesser extent in the 90s, most likely have a soft spot for "Bloom County," one of the most popular syndicated newspaper strips of all times. The strip's creator, Berkeley Breathed, has since moved on from "Bloom County," first to the Sunday-only "Outland," [...]