Lord Samper's Library

  Page Count: 346 Pages I’m not much for ‘reading resolutions’ these days; I don’t have anything against them, they just don’t seem to work for me and I’ll be honest, I’d rather enjoy my reading than feel all guilty about not finishing a book that I didn’t want to read but thought I should. That’s me anyway, good luck with your reading resolutions if you have any ;o) One thing I am trying to do though, this year, is to read more of the books that have been sat on my bookshelves for way too long. Books that I wanted to read but somehow never got round to because… Well, I ended up buying more books. I know :o) ‘Genefather’ is one of those books and I have been hankering for a little more ‘Warhammer 40k’, in my reading... It didn’t take a lot to put two and two together and make ‘Genefather’ my next read… In the hope of taming the Great Rift that divides the galaxy in two, Archmagos Belisarius Cawl invites representatives from across the Imperium to the artificial world of Pontus Aver...

Doesn’t that title look like the kind of football scoreline where the losing side ends up promising to refund their supporters for the cost of tickets and travel…? ;o) Sorry, yesterday was a busy one as well as being far too hot to be so busy. The kind of day where you go for a hospital appointment and the nurse taking your blood pressure asks if it’s normally that low. For the record, the nurse tried taking it again but the second one was worse and she decided to just stick with the first reading… Anyway :o) By the time I made it home last night, I wasn’t much use for anything but these two comics were waiting for me so I was able to end the day on a fairly decent note; one comfy chair and a couple of comics that I’d been looking forward to finally reading. Let me tell you a bit about them… ‘Conan the Barbarian’ #31 – Zub, Braithwaite, Rodriguez (Titan Comics, Heroic Signatures) Remember when I said that I really needed to go back and find a copy of #29 , just to find out exactly why ...

  Page Count: 126 Pages I really shouldn’t have gone to Greenwich Market at the weekend, it’s not like I don’t have enough books to read at home…;o) I was going a little stir crazy though so off I went and of course I ended up coming home with a couple of ‘Doctor Who’ books, ‘Warriors of the Deep’ and ‘The Monster of Peladon’ (amongst other things). Oh well… Anyway, after ‘one of those days’ at work, I was more or less in the mood for some comfort reading and (finally) settled on ‘Warriors of the Deep’; a TV serial that nobody else seems to like, apart from me . I’m awkward like that ;o) I’d never read the book though, and it has been a while since I watched the TV serial, so last night I settled down for the kind of read that doesn’t come round all that often. ‘The book that you haven’t read but kind of half-know the story’… When the TARDIS materialises on Earth in the year 2084, the Doctor meets an old enemy – the Sea Devils. Once the masters of this planet, they are now forced t...

  Page Count: 355 Pages Is it now a ‘Monday Tradition’ to apologise for the ‘blogging silence’ of the last couple of days? Well, lets leave it another couple of weeks, and we’ll see, but it’s starting to look that way isn’t it…? ;o) I’d just about run out of energy by Friday and needed a couple of days to recharge. So that’s exactly what this Graeme did and I don’t regret a second of it. I spent most of the time re-watching seasons of ‘Slasher’ but I did get a little reading under my belt as well, of course I did :o) I’ve thoroughly enjoyed Ronald Malfi’s two novella collections and I was in the mood for some short stories ove the weekend. ‘We Should Have Left Well Enough Alone’ felt like an opportunity to have the ‘best of both worlds’ and… Twenty haunting stories from the Bram Stoker Award nominated, and bestselling author of Come With Me. A man leaves rehab and tries to make a new life for himself, only to find the past closing in on him. A married couple on holiday have a biz...

It is far too hot, and I'm far too tired, to do anything here other than post the absolute daftest sounding movie trailer that I've found today so... Here it is, I'll be honest, I've got a sneaking suspicion that 'Piranha 3D' & 'Piranha 3DD' have already done this better but... I'm a sucker for daft sounding movie titles (rhymes are a bonus), and sharks, so I'll give this a watch - probably when it's free on Prime though... ;o) 

  Page Count: 160 Pages I used to own a copy of ‘Saga: Volume One’ but had to let it go during a rough period a good few years ago. Is the copy that I saw in Greenwich Oxfam, a few days ago, that same copy, had a bit of a journey but finally found its way back home? Of course it isn’t but I’m a bit of a soft old fool and like to think that it might be… ;o) Either way, I’ve got a ‘new’ copy that I won’t let go this time and it’s the book that I spent a couple of hours with, last night, after my daughters went home. Let me tell you a little bit about it. Quick thoughts today as yesterday was a tough one and today looks like it could be more of the same… When two soldiers, from opposite sides of a never-ending galactic war, fall in love, they risk everything to bring a fragile new life into a dangerous universe. That’s only the first step though, this new family must somehow build a new life for themselves with a price on their heads that just won’t go away… On the face of it, the fir...