Lord Samper's Library

'Infested' did it first and I suspect, will take some beating. If you're like me though (can't speak French and have trouble focussing on sub-titles/actual movie all at the same time...), 'Crawlers' could be the 'spider infestation movie' for you. Check it out... There are thousands of spiders, and screaming victims, so... I'm in :o) 

  Page Count: 254 Pages (at least as far as the ‘Word Bearers Omnibus’ Collection is concerned) These days, I’m trying not to ‘read the sequel’ straight after finishing the first book; it helps me keep my reading ‘fresh’ but perhaps more importantly, it saves this blog from getting too repetitive. It has happened here before and it’s always a little awkward, isn’t it? ;o) Last night though… I’d just come off the back of the kind of Monday where it’s not only a Monday (which is bad enough) but also a Monday where I’ve only got ten working days left before my job finishes up. There were all sorts of confusing thoughts going round my head then and on days like that, well… Those days are exactly the kind of days where you jump straight into a sequel and blog be damned. I was after something familiar and a bit distracting, don’t judge me ;o) ‘Dark Disciple’ it was then and while I might just take a little break now, before tackling the final book ‘Dark Creed’, this ended up being just t...

  Page Count: 415 Pages This weekend was not a good one for reading or blog posts, you probably noticed ;o) Lets just say that it was far too hot and Cat 1 finally lost all patience with Cat 2. Not that Cat 2 really cared much at all, she just got on with the important work of polishing off Cat 1’s breakfast when she got the chance. Honestly, I’m just glad that both of them are back with their owner and no longer my problem ;o) (I miss them…) I did manage to read one book though, just the one (and mainly whenever the cats took themselves off to find a shady spot)… I found a copy of Anthony Reynolds’ ‘Dark Apostle’, Greenwich Oxfam (again), the other day, and while it was a re-read, that worked for me as it was just too hot to read something new. And I say ‘re-read’ but does it count if the last time you read it was seventeen years ago? Anyway… While I’d say never trust a Heretic Astartes (although the World Eaters are surprisingly honest about their aims), the Word Bearers are part...

  Page Count: 93 Pages While it hasn’t been a great week, it has been a pretty good week for reading and you know what…? I’ll take that, especially when I’ve got no plans for the weekend other than to keep on reading ;o) In the meantime, I thought I’d round off the working week with a Jack Ketchum novella that I found lurking in the back of ‘Red’ . And… When Janet’s car breaks down on a quiet road, her only real concern is how long it will take before she can flag down a passing car, any passing car. One lift, from a very angry motorist, later and it couldn’t possibly get any worse, could it?  Oh, it could. And it does… Before we get going, I feel like a little advance warning would be useful here. I’m not really going to go into the rape scene, in this post, but it does happen and that’s something that some readers may want to consider before reading ‘The Passenger’. It’s up to you. Ketchum doesn’t make it the focus of this tale but similarly to ‘Red’, it does happen. Anyway…...

The end of my job is only two and a bit weeks away but somehow seems to be dragging out at the same time… I’ve handed all of my projects over, to the new folk, now and I’m left with all the ‘leavers admin’ stuff and all the fiddly little bits that it wouldn’t be fair to leave to someone else. If only I could remember where I left my motivation in the meantime… ;o) Add a couple of pissed off cats into the mix (it’s far too hot at the moment…) and yesterday was pretty miserable to be honest. As luck would have it though, ‘past me’ saw a situation like this occurring and very thoughtfully ordered some comic books that turned up yesterday morning. So, once all the ‘work stuff’ was done for the day, I settled down for some reading… ‘Event Horizon: Inferno’ #4 – Ward, Carey, Honchar (ID Dark) After all the excitement, and a little heartbreak, of #3, this fourth instalment slows things right down again; some of the players didn’t get their ‘time in the sun’ and presumably need to get caught ...

Page Count: 178 Pages You wouldn’t have thought it possible but living in a small flat (with loads of books) makes me uniquely qualified to say this ;o) The smaller the flat, and the more books you own, the easier it is for those books to ‘hide in plain sight. And I’m pretty sure that I don’t own that many books… Either way, my books like to hide right in front of me and while sometimes it can be bloody annoying trying to find a book that I was sure I owned, sometimes it makes for a nice surprise to come across a ‘forgotten’ book and think to myself, ‘I was going to read that…’ ‘Currency of Souls’ has been lurking in various TBR piles since October 2024 (thanks for the reminder Amazon) and when I came across it, the other day, I thought to myself, ‘I was going to read that’. So, before I forgot (again), that’s exactly what I did. Welcome to Eddie's Tavern, the only functioning waterhole in a near-dead town. Among the people you'll meet tonight are: Tom, Milestone's haunted ...