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‘Aliens: Earth Hive’ – Steve Perry (Titan Books)

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  Page Count: 277 Pages Sorry about the ‘blog silence’ yesterday… Blame it on a mixture of work and a ‘long lunch break’ involving a trip to my GP and then on to the hospital for more blood tests. Yay. It did give me a bit more free time, for reading, though so I’m not complaining too much. Work continues to be demanding so I was pretty glad to escape into a book. Anyway… I’ve had ‘The Complete Aliens Omnibus: Volume 1’ on my shelf for a couple of years now but have somehow never quite got round to picking it up; it’s a thick old book and I think that’s put me off a little. Until yesterday that is… Instead of taking on the whole book at once, I thought I’d tackle it ‘one book at a time’ instead and, here I am. ‘Earth Hive’ was up first and… They come in silence like death in the night. They are perfect killing machines. They are the Aliens and some people value them above all else. But the attempt to weaponize a creature of such tremendous power is a very dangerous game for the inh...
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‘Doctor Who And The Face Of Evil’ – Terrance Dicks (Target)

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  Page Count: 126 Pages If you see an old ‘Doctor Who’ book featured here, the odds are that a copy of it came home from the library with me, when I was a lot younger, and now I’m trying to find my way back to a time when things were a little more care-free (even if I didn’t realise it at the time…) What? Work has been a nightmare recently and a ‘nostalgia hit’ makes everything a little easier to manage ;o) That was definitely the mood I was in yesterday, that’s why I settled down with a copy of ‘The Face of Evil’ and tried to put a little distance between me and everything else. And it worked, that’s the main thing. Setting the controls for Earth, the Doctor is surprised when the TARDIS lands in a primeval forest. Has the tracer gone wrong or has some impulse, deep in his unconscious mind, directed him to this alien planet? As he explores, the Doctor meets Leela, a warrior banished from the tribe of the Sevateem; through her, it gradually becomes apparent that the constant war bet...
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Trailer: 'Evil Dead Burn' (2026)

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Of course I prefer any 'Evil Dead' movie/show that has Ash in it, of course I do. I mean, who wouldn't? I do have a soft spot for the newer movies though, especially how they are slowly stepping outside the established continuity and starting to do their own thing. 'Evil Dead Burn' is looking pretty good, check it out... Well, a small part of my July just got booked up. How about you?
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‘Come Closer’ – Sara Gran (Faber & Faber)

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  Page Count: 165 Pages Well, that’s another Bank Holiday Weekend over and it will surprise absolutely no-one here when I tell you that the TBR pile, I made the other day, looks pretty much the same as it did. I had all the best intentions but as great as the weekend was, and it was, it didn’t leave me with much time for reading. Oh well, hopefully the rest of the week will be different. We’ll see… I did get a little bit of reading done though, all 165 pages of ‘Come Closer’; a book that I came across on Amazon, a few weeks ago, and eventually picked up for precisely nothing in the Greenwich Waterstones (thanks, ‘Waterstones Loyalty Card’!) Yesterday was very much a day for a ‘short read’ and while that normally means an old ‘Doctor Who’ book, this time round I fancied a little horror. And that’s where ‘Come Closer’ came in… There was no reason to assume anything out of the ordinary was going on. Strange noises in the apartment. Impulsive behaviour. Intense dreams. It wasn't li...
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'Conan the Buccaneer' - Lin Carter & L. Sprague de Camp

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No blogging for me today... Yesterday was unexpectedly busy (very cool but... unexpectedly busy) and my youngest daughter is coming over later today. Again, very cool but I also want to take some time for myself, before I go back to work tomorrow and things kick off again. What's that? If I'm not blogging... Then what's all this? Fair question :o) Well, the short answer is that is that I'm pinching an old post, from an older blog, to sit here and look busy while I do other things (one of which may actually be reading some of the books that I posted about the other day...) A little 'Conan' for you this time, and a little reminder that there is a very clear line separating the 'Conan' works of REH from, well, everyone else. At least there is for me... You can find the original review over Here but I've changed very little, just tidied things up a bit. There has always been something about my commute that makes me want to escape into a genre novel, mo...
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‘Predator Versus Spider-Man’ – Percy, Ferreira, Leisten, D’Armata (Marvel Comics)

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  Page Count: 112 Pages My eldest daughter had a friend over, yesterday afternoon, and that was my cue to take my youngest daughter into town for Frappucino’s and a spot of shopping, Really, it was meant to be about picking some bits and pieces up for my youngest but… There is a Waterstones bang in the middle of two places that we were headed to, I’d won some money on a scratch card and… There was a copy of ‘Predator Versus Spiderman’ on the shelf. I’ve always had a soft spot for the ‘Predator’ movies (the franchise is a hell of a lot more consistent that the ‘Alien’ series), even more so since I introduced them to my eldest. These days then, I’m a little more willing to give other media a go so, here we are… Marvel's greatest hero faces off against the galaxy's greatest hunter in Benjamin Percy's grittiest PREDATOR series yet! In PREDATOR VS. WOLVERINE, we saw a single Predator stalk the killing machine Wolverine. In PREDATOR VS. BLACK PANTHER, Yautja invaded Wakanda and n...
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A New TBR Pile... 'Three Day Weekend' Edition!

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I love a Bank Holiday weekend, especially after I've just spent a fairly stressful three weeks in charge of my team at work... I know it's tempting fate to say this but... I'm really glad that's done and that my boss will be back in the office next week. Yep, I said it :o) This Bank Holiday weekend has come at just the right time then. And what does this Graeme do when he has a little extra time on his hands...? Yep, exactly right, I took a little time out last night, to pick a few books that I'd like to take a shot at. I owed it to myself ;o) Lets take a look, shall we? This time round, I'm going for quick reads balanced out by a book that is ideal for what I'm hoping is a Bank Holiday where I just camp out in the comfy chair, all day long (it might happen). And it's not the book that you think it is ;o) This TBR pile is a little 'Doctor Who' heavy but they're fun reads and a great way to feel like I'm making inroads into a much larger T...
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