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‘Conan The Barbarian’ #33 - Zub, Dagnino, Rodriguez (Titan Comics, Heroic Signatures)

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  This will be a much shorter post than normal… While you’re reading this, I’ll be doing ‘fun stuff’ like clearing my work locker out, shredding notes and making sure that I hand my work laptop in before I leave work for the final time. On the other hand, I will be making time for a bacon roll from my favourite cafe so, it’s not all bad ;o) Anyway… It has been a difficult couple of days for reading (there are currently two books, on the comfy chair, that are exactly my kind of thing, I just can’t get into them) but I knew this was likely to happen so I already had a little ‘Conan’ set to one side, just in case… Thirty three issues in and I’ve stopped looking for continuity between the stories; to be honest, I shouldn’t have started looking in the first place. I mean, there is an overall timeline for Conan (it’s his life…) but the comic seems to hop around that timeline and for me, that is the best way to experience Conan’s adventures, just jump in and see what he’s up right now. #3...
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Movie Night! ‘Winding Down…’ Edition

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My last day of employment, in my current role, is actually on Monday but that’s a Bank Holiday so… My last working day is tomorrow and, it all feels about as weird as you’d expect. I’m just tying up all the loose ends now and there’s not else left to do after that. Daily work stuff continues to move forwards but it is slowly leaving me behind and while that’s only to be expected, it still feels odd. Oh well, just a couple of days to go until the weekend and then I can stop ;o) In the meantime, reading has been a little difficult to focus on, this week, so I’ve broken it up a little with a few movies here and there. There have been a whole load of rewatches (I won’t go into those here, lets just say that  they involved alligators ) but I did make time for a a couple of ‘first time viewings’; one excellent and the other… Not so much… That’s better than my usual success rate though so I’ll take it :o) Let me tell you about them… ‘Obsession’ (2025) After breaking the mysterious ‘One Wi...
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‘Eight Billion Genies’ – Soule, Browne (Image)

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  Page Count: 240 Pages If I was still the kind of blogger that did ‘Best of’ lists (I’ve got nothing against them, these days I’d just rather be reading)… You can see where this is going :o) I think I’ve found one of my favourite reads for this year. I’m not just a sucker for some good cover art; it turns out that I can also be hooked by the right title. And what is there not to be intrigued about by the concept of eight billion genies, all with one wish to grant to ‘their person’? Yep, me neither so that is why I grabbed myself a copy and last night, sat down for a read… Everywhere, at precisely the same moment, everyone on Earth gets a Genie and one wish. As people all over the world make wishes profane and profound, the world - and humanity – change forever.We follow eight characters who find themselves in a Detroit dive bar as ‘G-Day’ descends upon humanity. They navigate their hopes, fears, dreams and wishes over the first eight seconds… The first eight hours… And ultimately…...
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‘Garro: Knight of Grey’ – James Swallow, Taken from ‘Flames of Betrayal’ (Black Library)

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  Page Count: 130 Pages I’m a little bit annoyed with myself for caving in and buying the ‘Flames of Betrayal’ collection but, I really wanted to read ‘Knight of Grey’ so… :o) You see, ‘Flames of Betrayal’ is actually ‘Garro: Knight of Grey’ and then all the stories collected in ‘Era of Ruin’ which funnily enough, I went and reviewed over Here , back in March this year. So… Half annoyed at Black Library for packaging a novella alongside a collection that I already own (I mean, why didn’t they do that when they published ‘Era of Ruin’ in hardback?), half annoyed that I’m just the kind of sucker who will buy the same book twice. Oh well, if that’s the worst thing that happens to me this week… (it won’t be, my job ends on Friday) Anyway :o) One of the things that I love about the ‘Horus Heresy’, and ‘Siege of Terra’, books is that you can pretty much pick a character and then follow them through any number of novels, short stories and so on. I’ve got a few favourites and one that I’ve...
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‘The Relentless Dead’ – Steve Lyons (Black Library)

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  Page Count: 300 Pages These days, what with various bits and pieces going on, I try and make sure that for at least one day over the weekend, I do as little as I can; mostly sitting in my favourite chair and trying to make a dent in my TBR pile. Gives me a chance to recharge ahead of starting over again the following week ;o) Well, that was pretty much my Saturday and while I didn’t get an awful lot of reading under my belt, I did manage a little. I was kind of ‘half and half’ about Steve Lyons’ ‘Krieg’ books until he came up with ‘Siege of Vraks’ and all of a sudden, I found that I needed to read more :o) Well, I finally got the chance, over the weekend, with ‘The Relentless Dead’ and… Five hundred years ago, Oleris III was ravaged by a Chaos plague. Now it is a world of tombs and catacombs. It belongs to the dead. Colonel Graven and his 401st Krieg Regiment are charged with searching for a missing inquisitor in the bone-filled ossuary tunnels beneath the planet. But the dead...
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Books for the TBR Pile... 'Messed Up Sleep ' Edition

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Posting a little later than normal because last night was weird... Every time I tried to do something I fell asleep but every time I tried to fall asleep... you guessed it. I'm taking it easy today then, a comfy chair and a couple of books should take care of it ;o) In the meantime, this week has been a bit of a weird one, in general, and whenever that happens, a few more books seem to find their way back to my place. Funny how that happens :o) Lets take a little look shall we? It's all a little Warhammer 40k this week with a couple of new(ish) releases and 'Scourge The Heretic' , a paperback that tried to hide away, in Oxfam, but didn't hide well enough; not from me... ;o) In terms of my reading today, I've already made a start on 'The Relentless Dead' and I'll be dipping into the 'Garro: Knight of Grey' novella in 'Flames of Betrayal'. 'Out There Screaming' is a collection that I've had my eye on for a little while. I...
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‘Exit 8’ – Genki Kawamura (Ithaka Press)

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  Page Count: 101 Pages ‘Exit 8’ has been making itself known all over my Prime Video, and so the plan was to give it a watch at some point i.e. in about a weeks time when my job ends and I have a little more time on my hands. And then I was in Forbidden Planet yesterday and discovered that ‘Exit 8’ isn’t just a film based on a video game… It’s also a book and that book was staring at me from a shelf. It was just over a hundred pages long and there was a ‘money off’ sticker on the front… That was all the excuse I needed ;o) Quick thoughts (very quick thoughts…) are the order of the day as, well… That page count speaks for itself. ‘Exit 8’ is worth the read though, let me tell you about it. A young man is riding the Tokyo subway when he receives a life-changing text message from his ex-girlfriend. He exits the train, but extraordinary things begin to happen, and he finds that he cannot escape. The subway will loop endlessly unless he follows very precise rules: Do not overlook any a...
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