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‘Siege of Terra: Era of Ruin’ – Various (Black Library)

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  My journey through the war zones of the ‘Horus Heresy’ and ‘Siege of Terra’ continues in much the same way that it always has; a vague nod at some kind of reading order but mostly determined by what book(s) I can afford and what cover catches my eye at any given moment. The cover for ‘Era of Ruin’ looks absolutely amazing, and I’ve been dipping in and out of anthologies at the moment, so this seemed like a good book to visit :o) We’re coming in right at the end of the Siege of Terra this time. The big guns have fallen silent but you can still hear scattered small arms fire in the ruins, amongst other things… Horus is dead. His Heresy is over. The scars of mankind’s great schism will never fully heal. For those left behind, a new Era of Ruin is dawning, promising both new beginnings and fresh peril for an Imperium riven by trauma and war. When I spoke about ‘The Shattered and The Soulless’, not so long ago , I wondered whether every plot-line needs to have a line neatly drawn unde...
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‘Old Moon Quarterly: Volume V’ – Various (Old Moon Quarterly)

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  Page Count: 134 Pages I can feel my reading starting to head in a ‘fantasy direction’, more specifically a ‘Sword & Sorcery’ direction. That’s never a bad direction to head in and we’ll see where the road takes us but for now, I thought I’d start off with some short stories from ‘Old Moon Quarterly: Volume V’. Well, all the short stories from ‘Old Moon Quarterly: Volume V’, actually. You know what I mean ;o) One of the reasons I follow Jim’s blog (and you should too) is that he really knows his ‘Sword & Sorcery’ and has a happy knack for broadening my knowledge of the genre with what he writes about. So when I saw Jim had posted about ‘Old Moon Quarterly: Volume V’ , I thought to myself, ‘I’ll have some of that...’ And after I turned off my work laptop last night, that’s exactly what I did :o) I’ll be honest, I read through the whole volume, in one sitting, but came unstuck with the two poems; ‘The Kings Two Bodies’ (Joe Koch) and ‘A Warning Agaynste Woldes’ (Zachary Bo...
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‘XX’ (2017)

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  Run Time: 80 Minutes I had my youngest daughter over, for a chunk of yesterday, and followed that up with a quick game of ‘Uno’ and ‘Monopoly Deal’ with said daughter and my ex-partner. Turns out that playing to win (instead of playing to lose really quickly so I can get back to my book) can be fun after all, who would have thought it…? :o) What I didn’t do yesterday was pick up a book but I did manage to watch ‘XX’ when I got home. And… It was pretty good, all the more so as I’d managed to confuse it with ‘X’ (which I still need to watch) and my expectations were all over the place going into it. Regular visitors here will know that I have a real soft spot for ‘horror anthology’ movies, almost as much as I do for zombie movies ;o) If there’s more than one separate story collected in a horror movie, I’m watching it. That’s what ultimately encouraged me to keep going with ‘X’ and it proved to be worth sticking with. That’s not to say that there weren’t issues. There are four stori...
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'Backrooms' (2026) - Teaser Trailer

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I try not to follow a 'trailer post' with another 'trailer post' but... a) I pretty much came to a full stop this weekend (I'm going through one of those phases where the chemo tablets knock me out). I read about half of two different books, there's no way that was going to end up as a whole post... ;o) b) I was actually watching 'The Backrooms' with my eldest daughter, the other day, and she mentioned there was a movie coming out. I know it's only a teaser trailer but when I saw it, I had to leave it here as a reminder to myself ;o) It looks like it could be interesting...
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Trailer: 'In A Violent Nature 2' (2026)

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Sorry for the 'blogging silence' over the last couple of days. I completely ran out of steam so had to take a little time out to, erm... 're-steam'? I know what I mean, I was mostly reading ;o) Anyway... I've got plans for a lot more reading over the weekend (me, the comfy chair and 'Ashes of the Imperium' for a start) so I thought I'd leave you with a cool looking trailer in the meantime. I watched 'In A Violent Nature', back in 2024, and said that I'd be back for a sequel . Having watched the trailer just now... Yep, I'll definitely be watching it.
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‘Doctor Who: The Heralds of Destruction’ – Cornell, Jones, Hi-Fi (Titan Comics)

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  Page Count: 128 Pages I’ve been rubbish at getting out of the house, these last few days, so yesterday lunchtime, I took myself for a little walk over to Blackheath and got some sunshine for my efforts. Actually, I need to do that more often, I think it did me some good :o) And after yesterday’s talk of not buying so many books… I ended up buying a couple of books during my wander through Blackheath. That’s the problem with second hand bookshops… If a book catches your eye, you don’t know if it will be there next time so you have no choice in the matter, you have to get it :o) And that’s what I did when I saw ‘The Heralds of Destruction’. I ended up working a little later than expected, last night, so figured it would be a good book to read over what remained of the evening. And… Maybe I should have chosen something else to read. Oh well, it happens… The Third Doctor finds himself up against a ‘hive mind’ robotic intelligence that is capable of recreating itself out of litera...
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‘Doctor Who And The Dinosaur Invasion’ – Malcolm Hulke (BBC Books)

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  Page Count: 179 Pages My resolution (well, ‘kind of’ resolution) to read books that I already own, instead of just buying more, continues at… Well, kind of a meander if I’m being honest ;o) I’m still picking books but it’s gradually becoming more of an ‘occasional thing’ rather than ‘regular’ but that’s ok. Small beginnings and all that. And thinking about it… If I buy a book, leave it for a few weeks then read it, that counts… Doesn’t it? Hmmm… ;o) Anyway. Regular visitors here will know that I’ve built up a small(ish) pile of ‘Doctor Who’ TV novelizations, over the last few years, that I’m slowly working my way through. The other day, while looking for something completely different, I came across my copy of ‘The Dinosaur Invasion’ (hidden away and ‘separated from the herd’, as it were) and figured that it was long overdue a read. I’d also finally watched ‘Invasion of the Dinosaurs’ ( a few years ago now ) and was interested to see how the TV serial compared to the book. And...
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