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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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Trailer... 'Resident Evil' (2026)

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What with one thing and another (work, mostly), this week caught up with me last night and made it clear that I'd be sleeping rather than actually reading anything. I couldn't say no really... I've got a three day weekend coming up so hopefully I can make up for that. In the meantime, you lucky folks get a trailer for the upcoming new 'Resident Evil' movie. I really enjoyed 'Weapons' (never saw 'Barbarian' though, should probably do something about that...) so I'm feeling optimistic for this one... It won't be in the cinema until September (which doesn't feel all that far away now, come to think of it) so hopefully there will be at least another trailer between now and then.
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‘I Hate Fairyland, Volume Seven: In The Mean Time’ – Young, Bean (Image Comics)

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  Page Count: 128 Pages Well… This week continues to be a challenging one but there’s only a couple of days left until the weekend, I’ve got this ;o) With this being the case, you won’t be surprised when I tell you that I’m still very much about the comfort reads and tomorrows post will be more of the same. But that’s for tomorrow though, where are we today? Well… Remember yesterday when I said that ‘the only criteria [for a comfort read] is that you know exactly what you’re getting and it’s exactly what you need? ‘ What I needed last night was a ‘shot in the arm’ to stop me falling asleep too early in the evening. While the literal definition was out of the question, a ‘comic book equivalent’ was definitely do-able, especially when it had only been a few days since I read ‘Last Gert Standing’ . It was time for another trip to Fairyland, and… The twisted Fairyland adventures continue in this seventh volume… Join Gert as she continues to stick her axe where it doesn’t belong in a s...
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‘The Briar King’ – Greg Keyes (Tor UK)

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  Page Count: 552 Pages Sorry for the ‘blog silence’ yesterday… The last couple of weeks have seen me somehow in charge of my team, at work, and given that one of my strengths is ‘usually flying under the radar’, it has been a bit of a shock to the system! No blogging yesterday then, I was trying to decompress a little… And that is what has led me to ‘The Briar King’ these past few days, the need for a spot of comfort reading. That should tell you all you need to know about how this post is going to go… I’ve been revisiting ‘The Kingdoms of Thorn and Bone’ series for years now, and rank the setting right up there with Tad Williams’ Osten Ard. Notice I said ‘setting’, this series isn’t perfect (more on that as I go through it) but there is still plenty to love here, certainly with ‘The Briar King’. So, lets take a look… In the kingdom of Crotheny, two young girls play in the tangled gardens of the sacred city of the dead where, fleeing an imaginary attacker, they discover the unkno...
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