Lord Samper's Library

I was in the office today and we all know what that means… Well, apart from the inevitable ‘lunchtime bagel’ from Bagel Factory, that’s probably a subject for a different blog entirely ;o) Nope, what I’m talking about is that point, on the bus ride home, where I realise that I’ve finished my book so I end up seeing what’s what on my Kindle App. Luckily, I always seem to have a couple of quick reads, waiting to be read ;o) Today, I visited another nightmarish, grimdark world of the 40th Millennium and then… I’m not sure where I visited, but I’d love to go back one day… ‘The Dark Hollows Of Memory’ – David Annandale (Black Library) The sinister limbo of winter is falling on the Imperial archive world of Mnemosyne. A great fog rolls in, one that will not dissipate for months. With it comes unimaginable hell for the planet’s citizens as the Chaos Space Marines of the Company of Misery stage a brutal invasion. But as the defenders of Mnemosyne fall before the Traitors, something moves in th...

  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...

  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...

  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...

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...

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.