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A little 'Yautja' Action and some 'Age of Sigmar'...

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It’s a slightly shamefaced Graeme who greets you today… After all my moaning and worry about having my teeth pulled, it turns out that yesterday’s appointment was just a prelude to the main event. A scan of my jaw (and the few teeth left in it), a little cleaning up and enough ‘laughing gas’ that there were actually a few moments that made me chuckle ;o) I wasn’t good for much, yesterday afternoon (honestly, I’m a little surprised I made it to the train station…), so I took it easy and read a couple of short stories that I’d been meaning to get to. Let me tell you about them… ‘The Distance In Their Eyes’ – Stephen Graham Jones (From ‘Predator: Eyes of the Demon’, Titan Books) Page Count: 12 Pages The ‘Predator: Eyes of the Demon’ anthology has been sat on a shelf for a while now and every time I go to pick it up… You know what happens next ;o) Anyway, my youngest daughter finally watched ‘Predator: Badlands’ the other day, really enjoyed it too, so I took that as a sign and chose ‘The...
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‘Doctor Who and the Claws of Axos’ – Terrance Dicks (Target)

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  Page Count: 141 Pages It was only a few weeks ago that I read ‘Doctor Who and the Invasion of Time’ but it feels like a lot longer. Time slows down when you’re unemployed, sometimes that’s a good thing but sometimes, not so much :o( Anyway… It felt like a long time since I’d picked up a ‘Doctor Who’ book and a walk through Greenwich Market, the other day, turned up a copy of ‘The Claws of Axos’; a book that I hadn’t read since… Erm… sometime in the ‘eighties? I can’t remember exactly, lets just say that it has been a while. Either way, it felt like everything had come together and it was about time I had a re-read. So… That’s what I did. When I’m hunting books, I never ignore tracks and signs and… I’m always hunting books ;o) ‘Axos calling Earth, Axos calling Earth…’ The creatures stood before them, beautiful golden humanoids, offering friendship and their priceless Axonite, in return for… what? Only the Doctor remains suspicious. What is the real reason for the Axons’ sudden ar...
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‘Ravenor’ – Dan Abnett (Black Library)

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  Page Count: 412 Pages I actually have a copy of the ‘Ravenor Omnibus’ but the size of it makes it a little impractical for ‘commuter reading’, or any kind of reading that doesn’t involve a comfy chair and a free afternoon. I’m working on that by the way (the comfy chair, not the free afternoon, I have too many of those…) Where was I…? Oh, yes :o) The omnibus isn’t a book to be lugged around, in my bag, so when I happened upon a copy of ‘Ravenor, it very swiftly became my ‘commute reading’ and… Here we are ;o) I’ve needed to give my reading a little ‘jump-start’, just recently, and some ‘Warhammer 40K’ is always a good place to start. I’ll be honest, for large chunks of this read, I wondered if I should have picked another book but ultimately, it was worth the read. The storming tale of Inquisitor Gideon Ravenor and his band of lethal operatives conveys the grim far future from the ground level up as they investigate the trafficking of a dangerous substance within the Imperium. Wi...
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Books for the TBR Pile... 'Last Bonus Spree' Edition

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Over the last eight years I've been lucky enough to be paid a yearly bonus; some of which went on books because of course it did ;o) Did I say 'some'? I meant to say... Erm... 'Some'...? Hush you, no judgment here ;o) Anyway... A few days ago, I got my last bonus from the old job. I didn't go crazy with it (you know, 'last bonus' and all that) but I did take myself for a little look round the Warhammer Store, on Tottenham Court Road, and managed to not only stay away from the cool looking models (for now) but come back with some cool looking books. Here they are... Apologies for the photo... Turns out that I'm not just missing the all round 'comfiness' of the comfy chair, I'm also missing the backdrop it provides for 'book pictures'. (Note to Self: Sort out a new comfy chair this week...) Part of the reason that I went in the Warhammer Store was that I wanted to give my reading a little 'shot in the arm' after a difficult ...
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‘Saga: Volume 4’ and ‘Something is Killing the Children: Volume 4’

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Just looking at the blog title here and there’s something quite pleasing (to me, anyway) about having two ‘Volume 4’s in the same title. Makes me feel like I’m actually making a little progress with the various series that I’m into and by extension, the TBR Pile. No! Don’t say anything, just leave me in blissful ignorance for a little longer… ;o) Anyway… Yesterday was a good day for getting called up about contract jobs (yes I know how that sounds, no I'm not changing it) and it was also a good day to put a little shine on my rusty old social skills. It wasn’t a good day for reading though… That’s becoming a little bit of a pattern and once again, I’m hoping to do something about that over the weekend. In the meantime, I did manage to find a little time for ‘Something is Killing the Children Volume 4’ and ‘Saga: Volume 4’ was already sitting patiently, waiting to be posted about, so… Lets get to it :o) ‘Saga: Volume 4’ – Vaughan, Staples (Image) Page Count: 144 Pages In this volume...
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Shelfie Time - 'The Forgotten Shelf...'

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Well, not exactly forgotten, it's right at the corner of my eye whenever I'm working at my desk :o) But... It's also a shelf that's in a corner of my living room, just behind my TV, and is a little trickier to get to. If a book ends up on this shelf then, I'm a lot less likely to get to it than others. So, a kind of 'Forgotten Shelf' then but, my blog title sounds better ;o) A bookshelf is still a bookshelf though, forgotten or not, and just as deserving as a post here as the more accessible bookshelves that I've featured over the years. And that's where this post comes in. Lets take a look at 'The Forgotten Shelf' and see what's what... Not the best photo I've ever taken but hopefully you can make out the titles :o) Most of these books were unpacked straight onto this shelf and haven't been touched since, which is a shame really as they were all bought to be read. There are a couple here though that enjoyed a brief moment on this...
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‘Carrie’ – Stephen King (Hodder)

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  Page Count: 248 Pages Everyone knows that there’s a new TV adaptation, of Stephen King’s ‘Carrie’, showing on Prime Video at the moment. Hardly anyone knows that there’s also a copy of ‘Carrie’ on one of my bookshelves that I haven’t got round to picking up. Which version did I get to first…? The page count gave it away ;o) I’d heard that the TV adaptation takes things in a slightly different direction and while I will get to it, yesterday seemed like the right time to go back to the source for a re-read (the first time in a long time) And I’ll be honest, I was at the point where I was thinking, ‘if I don’t read a novel now, I never will…’ ‘Carrie’ was a quick win ;o) It’s a lot more than that though… Carrie White has a gift – she can move things with her mind. To be invited to Prom Night by Tommy Ross is a dream come true for Carrie – the first step towards social acceptance by her high school colleagues. But events will take a decidedly macabre turn on that horrifying and endle...
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