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‘We Should Have Left Well Enough Alone’ – Robert Malfi (Titan Books)

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  Page Count: 355 Pages Is it now a ‘Monday Tradition’ to apologise for the ‘blogging silence’ of the last couple of days? Well, lets leave it another couple of weeks, and we’ll see, but it’s starting to look that way isn’t it…? ;o) I’d just about run out of energy by Friday and needed a couple of days to recharge. So that’s exactly what this Graeme did and I don’t regret a second of it. I spent most of the time re-watching seasons of ‘Slasher’ but I did get a little reading under my belt as well, of course I did :o) I’ve thoroughly enjoyed Ronald Malfi’s two novella collections and I was in the mood for some short stories ove the weekend. ‘We Should Have Left Well Enough Alone’ felt like an opportunity to have the ‘best of both worlds’ and… Twenty haunting stories from the Bram Stoker Award nominated, and bestselling author of Come With Me. A man leaves rehab and tries to make a new life for himself, only to find the past closing in on him. A married couple on holiday have a biz...
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Trailer: 'Water Park Shark' (2026)

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It is far too hot, and I'm far too tired, to do anything here other than post the absolute daftest sounding movie trailer that I've found today so... Here it is, I'll be honest, I've got a sneaking suspicion that 'Piranha 3D' & 'Piranha 3DD' have already done this better but... I'm a sucker for daft sounding movie titles (rhymes are a bonus), and sharks, so I'll give this a watch - probably when it's free on Prime though... ;o) 
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‘Saga: Volume One’ – Vaughan, Staples (Image)

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  Page Count: 160 Pages I used to own a copy of ‘Saga: Volume One’ but had to let it go during a rough period a good few years ago. Is the copy that I saw in Greenwich Oxfam, a few days ago, that same copy, had a bit of a journey but finally found its way back home? Of course it isn’t but I’m a bit of a soft old fool and like to think that it might be… ;o) Either way, I’ve got a ‘new’ copy that I won’t let go this time and it’s the book that I spent a couple of hours with, last night, after my daughters went home. Let me tell you a little bit about it. Quick thoughts today as yesterday was a tough one and today looks like it could be more of the same… When two soldiers, from opposite sides of a never-ending galactic war, fall in love, they risk everything to bring a fragile new life into a dangerous universe. That’s only the first step though, this new family must somehow build a new life for themselves with a price on their heads that just won’t go away… On the face of it, the fir...
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‘Green and Grey’ & ‘Waiting Death’ (From ‘Soldiers of the Imperium: An Astra Miltarum Omnibus’ – Black Library’)

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  The weather is cooling down a bit, at least for now, but my tired (slightly overheated) old brain is taking a little while to catch up so, as you’ve probably gathered, I’m all about the short reads this week. Bits and pieces to keep me ticking over and entertained. And ‘Alien Harvest’, as well, but I already moaned about that yesterday , no more moaning about it today ;o) Anyway… I’m doing pretty well with my, kind of, resolution to read more books that I already own (it’s still a ‘work in progress’ but I’m happy with it) so it was no surprise that I decided to go for a couple of Imperial Guard short stories from the ‘Soldiers of the Imperium’ collection – a book that has gone unread for… lets just say ‘too long’. I picked one tale from an author that I’ve never read and the other tale? Well, does it count as a re-read if I listened to the audio-book years ago and could barely remember the plot when I came back to it the other day? Technically, yes, I guess ;o) Enough of that, le...
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‘Alien Harvest’ – Robert Sheckley (Titan Books)

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  Page Count: 326 Pages It feels like a while since I last had an ‘Aliens’ post here (‘Aliens: Genocide’, back in May , just in case you were wondering…) but I have been pecking away at ‘Alien Harvest’, a page here and then a few pages here. And that should be a little bit of a red flag right there. The four preceding ‘Aliens’ novels (or, one and a half omnibuses) were all very readable and, ultimately, a lot of fun despite a few misgivings here and there. ‘Alien Harvest’ though…? Honestly, it has taken me weeks to get through and if it wasn’t for my generally enjoying the franchise (and being an awkward middle-aged chap who sometimes, just won’t let a book beat him…), I’d have DNF’d this book and moved on without a second thought. I didn’t though (because I’m awkward and needed the win) and here I am, trying to make a little sense of how I feel about ‘Alien Harvest’. Lets see how I do… Royal jelly, the most illicit of Alien by-products, is keeping Dr, Stan Myakovsky alive. A once ...
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‘The Burial of the Rats’ – Bram Stoker (Penguin)

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  Page Count: 138 Pages ‘The bones were still warm; but they were picked clean. They had even eaten their own dead.’ This spine-chilling collection from Bram Stoker showcases five haunting tales, including the newly discovered ‘Gibbet Hill’. From ‘Dracula’s Guest’, thought to be the original excised opening of Dracula itself, to the sinister ‘The Judge’s House’, each gripping story will leave you breathless, perhaps afraid to turn out the lights. Dare you explore the darkness? Like I said yesterday, I came across ‘The Burial of the Rats’ (in Waterstones) and had the exact amount of change on me. That was all it took :o) A little bit impulsive of me but that’s half the fun of spending time in bookshops. And again, other than ‘Dracula’, I’d never read anything else of Stoker’s so it felt like a good time to do something about that. Well, that’s exactly what I did, and… I’ll be honest, none of the stories left me particularly breathless and when I went to bed last night, I still turne...
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Books for the TBR Pile... 'It is far too hot now' Edition

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Apologies for the blogging silence over the last couple of days... In the end, it just got so hot that I had to focus my energy on getting work done and just park the blog for a little bit. When I wasn't working, I was either taking a nap or watching the 'Chucky' TV show (better than I thought it would be); once I'm done with the third season, I'll see about getting a post up here ;o) And then it got to yesterday afternoon and I realised that I'd pretty much been stuck in the house for a couple of days (it's hot inside and out but 'inside' is a lot more comfortable). Greenwich is only down the road from mine so I figured I'd pop out and find a couple of bookshops with decent air-conditioning, or a big ol' fan up a corner. Yep, I bought books... I'd try and come up with a decent (and humorous) excuse but it is far too hot for that as well. It was the least I could do... ;o) Just a short one today as, well... You can see the photo ;o) '...
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