Lord Samper's Library

Page Count: 120 Pages I was in Wimbledon, for work, on Tuesday and as I normally do when I’m there, I spent my lunch break nipping in and out the charity shops, on the hunt for a bargain or two. There wasn’t an awful lot, this time round, to be honest but that’s the way the hunt can sometimes go. What there was though was an absolutely lovely looking copy of George R.R. Martin’s ‘The Ice Dragon’ and it was only £1.50 so of course I bought it ;o) I reckoned at least one of my daughters would like it but it had been a few years since I read it last (okay, seventeen years…) so that’s exactly what I did last night… Quick thoughts follow after the blurb (the book is only 120 pages long so quick thoughts are all I have). The ice dragon was a creature of legend and fear. When it flew overhead, it left in its wake desolate, frozen land. No man had ever tamed one. Adara first glimpsed the ice dragon as she played in the snow long after the other children had fled the cold. But Adara was not afr

Enter a carnival of devastatin’ delights as the Goon and Franky take on the evils of the entertainment industry and the tyranny of the one percent. But when a bodacious burlesque dancer steals Franky’s heart, can the Goon nail her before she makes off with… the knickknack? And the ‘Goon Re-Read’ continues; not for too much longer as we’re starting to approach the end of the books that I haven’t already featured. We’re not there yet though so… Lets talk about ‘The Deformed of Body and the Devious of Mind’, a book that went very well with my breakfast bagel and kept me company on the way home from work. After you’ve finished your main plot arc, and given one of your supporting cast the mini-series that he absolutely deserved … Where do you go next? Well, luckily for us, life goes on in Lonely Street (and the surrounding burg) in much the same that it did while Labrazio and the Goon were fighting. This time, we get a close look at what that means and… Well, basically it’s as slightly surr

The fate of Wissenland lies in the balance when a mighty Undead horde lays waste to the state. As the Imperial troops are pushed remorselessly back, the count and his advisors come up with a desperate plan - to find the missing Solland runefang, for with this legendary weapon they will surely win the day. Baron von Rabwald and a small force of men head into the mountains to seek the sword, but can they find it, let alone get back in time? Because zombies don’t just shamble about in the ruins of modern day America… The undead may have arrived in fantasy fiction via a slightly different route (those pesky necromancers…) but they were in books long before George Romero surrounded a farmhouse with zombies and set the cameras rolling. And I’m more than cool with that. Reading fantasy & horror books, and watching horror movies, are three of my favourite things; zombies count for the fourth so it’s great when all those things bump into one another 😊I know that I can count on Black Librar

It's been a while since I've been really excited about an MCU movie but... I'm back now! Two absolute legends, in the MCU for the first time, what more can anyone ask for? Swearing? Yep plenty of that too ;o) 'Deadpool & Wolverine' will be out in July.

Page Count: 32 Pages I actually got a fair bit done this weekend, ranging from putting my new bed together to being told to move along by the police in Greenwich; turns out that the only place you could actually see the marathon runners was the one place where you weren’t allowed to stand and watch them… Oh well ;o) One thing I didn’t get much (if any time) for was reading but I did briefly conquer my fear of maths just enough to help my eldest do her homework so… it all balanced out. I did want to read something though (I get all fidgety if I don’t) so went straight to my Kindle and an ‘Age of Sigmar’ short story that I’d left there, just for a situation like this. I absolutely loved how David Guymer approached Gotrek in ‘The One Road’ so when I saw ‘The Beast of Grey Gardens’, it was an easy purchase. Let me tell you a bit about it (quick thoughts as I have quite the day ahead of me)… Tun and the Loose Cannons take their new recruit, Gotrek, on a routine patrol of the sewers, only t

You'll see why in a minute, further down this post, lets talk about the books first.  Honestly, the plan was to really work to get through more of the books already in the house but... The last couple of weeks have been pretty tough and then payday happened so... Here we are :o) Let me show you what has arrived in the last couple of days (ok, yesterday). I'd seen Ronald Malfi pop up on Twitter and thought to myself that I'd never read of his stuff. One browse through Amazon later and 'They Lurk' looked like the best place to start. The plan is to dip into this 'as and when', and post about each novella as I read them. And they all look pretty intriguing so you'll see them here sooner rather than later. And 'Gods of the Wyrdwood' is a book that I've been interested in, for a long time, but couldn't spring for the hardback. The timely publication of the paperback solved that one and my crappy photo doesn't do justice to just how lovely