Stefan Hayden

I’m horrible at giving book reviews but I’m going to try and give a short recap every couple of books I read. Hope it helps.

Predator’s Gold (The Hungry City Chronicles) This book really made me fully fall in love with the Hungry City Chronicles. I can’t get enough. The characters have such strong motivation for whatever they do. So of the logic about how the cities roll around can be hard to buy but the ideas is just too much fun for me to get bogged down in the details.

The Amber Spyglass I was actually disappointed in how the trilogy ended. I was much happier in the first book.

Sabriel (The Abhorsen Trilogy) A solid unique book. some of the turns of phrases seemed a bit awkward and the characters just didn’t really grab me as much. I still enjoyed it and will definitely get around to reading the others in the future.

Infernal Devices (The Hungry City Chronicles) This series can’t really go wrong in my book. I love it so much. It continues to surprise and bring strong character driven plot. I’ve order the net book strait from the UK. I can’t wait.

Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town Not as good as Down and out in the Magic Kingdom but still a good book. I got a bit confused by how the time line jumped at a few placesbut it didn’t stop me from liking the book.

Odd Job Jack, a Canadian cartoon, is releasing the master flash files with all art work for all 13 episodes. I can't stop thinking about what an amazing resource this will be for art students. A lot of time you get stuck at the beginning of a project because there so much work you need to do before you can start making a flash movie. This will be great for people who want to focus on content creation instead of endless illustration.

Oh how I love social networking. I’m glad this isn’t my buddy list.

It’s really interesting to see designers get more and more in to development. Luckily I’m just getting used to Subversion. I wonder how long till A List Apart has a tutorial for Vim.

Movies to look out for: Children Of Men, The Fountain, The Illusionist, American Hardcore, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, The Prestige. Okay. Some of these movies will probably be bad (you’ll notice I didn’t even list the Transformer movie) but I think they have a fighting chance.