Stack Overflow: 3 Books for January
Winter break is over and we start a brand new year with beautiful titles.
Continue ReadingWinter break is over and we start a brand new year with beautiful titles.
Continue ReadingHere are some of our favorite reads from 2025!
Continue ReadingEach year, a few of us here like to make some related resolutions: personal goals or hopes for our reading habits for the year.
Continue ReadingNow that the year has ended, we look back at our reading resolutions and reflect on the past year.
Continue ReadingLet’s check out some cool books to read in our Winter Break.
Continue ReadingIf you like your fiction just a little bit (or a lot) freaky, here are a few books that might fit the bill.
Continue ReadingAimée De Jongh’s graphic retelling of ‘Lord of the Flies’ will bring a whole new audience to one of the 20th Century’s greatest novels.
Continue Reading‘The Stuff Stuff Is Made Of’ explores 30 plants all the useful things we make from them.
Continue ReadingWhether you’ve constantly got a book in progress (or two or three) or you read several books a night to your kids, books have a heavy presence in our lives. We can use them to learn, to imagine, and even to escape, and they always make great gifts.
Continue ReadingToday’s stack: three novels I’ve read recently.
Continue ReadingToday’s stack: movie-related books!
Continue ReadingArtificial intelligence. Love it or hate it, it seems to be everywhere these days.
Continue ReadingGod’s Junk Drawer is a hi-concept thriller, filled with time-travel, dinosaurs and astronomical anomalies.
Continue ReadingAn Xmas book, some dodgy fish, a non-fiction book and brand new bilingual books.
Continue ReadingThe greatest book ever written about Space might be here – Check out ‘Exploring then Universe’
Continue ReadingToday’s stack is about—you guessed it!—time travel.
Continue ReadingHidden cats, eons of time and many gifts are featured today.
Continue ReadingHere are three spectacular new releases to add to your Halloween reading list.
Continue ReadingIs ‘The Last Book’ a book or a work of of art? Why not both? Check out this beautiful rumination on what makes us human.
Continue ReadingToday’s stack is a big collection of murder stories: comics, puzzle books, and even jigsaw puzzles.
Continue ReadingWe here at Geekdad read a lot of different genres.
Continue ReadingA fun mix of titles, from toddler to middle grade.
Continue Reading‘The Alchemy of Fate’ and ‘Master of the Royal Secret’ are the latest novels by Jeff Wheeler, the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of over 40 novels set in several different worlds including Muirwood, Kingsfountain, and even our modern world. These are the third and fourth novels in the ‘Invisible College’ Series.
Continue Reading‘The Transcendent Tide’ is the thrilling conclusion Doug Johnston’s ‘Enceladons’ trilogy. A trio of moving “first contact” stories.
Continue ReadingI’ve been fortunate enough to hit a rich vein of children’s fiction in recent weeks, and I’ve arguably saved the best for last. The Strange Disappearance of Imogen Good, by Kirsty Applebaum, is a gentle gothic tale for middle-grade readers, with a creepy garden at its center. What Is The Strange Disappearance of Imogen Good? The […]
Continue Reading“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
Continue ReadingI’m sure my mind is playing tricks on me. I definitely remember reviewing The Secret of the Blood Key by David Farr, but as I look back through my GeekDad posts, it doesn’t seem to be there. What’s weird about this, is that Secret of the Blood Key is the second book of a series, […]
Continue Reading‘Oxford Blood’ is a compelling murder mystery set amongst the spires of a modernizing Oxford University. It’s an entertaining and thoughtful YA thriller.
Continue ReadingThe recipes are on brand and have several delicious baking tips.
Continue ReadingI’ve got a bunch of books in today’s stack. It’s a bit of a grab bag, but one thing most of them have in common is a sort of otherworldliness: portals or time machines or other impossibilities.
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