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Book Review of “The Missing Course: Everything They Never Taught You About College Teaching”
A snippet from my review posted at the Canadian Journal of Higher Education In my classes I try to explain to second year comput-ing students that their technical skills are only one part of what they need to succeed. Many jobs are like that, requiring both discipline or field specific skills and trans-ferable or soft […]
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Fantasy, Humanism, and Improving Authors
Everyone likes different books. I tend to like books that speak to being human. I think that’s why I read so much fantasy literature. To blatantly steal a concept, they use the impossible to examine the probable. When you strip away the requirement to make the setting accurate you allow yourself the ability to more […]
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Review of The Last Colony by John Scalzi
The Last Colony by John Scalzi My rating: 5 of 5 stars A brilliant novel. The perfect way to wrap up the trilogy (yes, I know it continues, but it was originally the end of the trilogy). Scalzi has the perfect combination of military sci-fi mixed with bits of humor, political maneuvering, and all set […]
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Of Course It’s Derivative
I read a lot. I know this because I keep track of it. The first year I kept track was from summer 2007 to summer 2008. I was taking the bus to UBC every day and had a lot of time to read. I read 54 books that year. Yes, I averaged over one a […]
Noah D. Arney
A student affairs professional's musings on books, education, politics, and cooking.