Lord Samper's Library

  Page Count: 123 Pages. Ooh, I’m not going to enjoy writing this post… Not because of anything to do with the book itself; more to do with the fact that I was over three quarters done with this post on Sunday night, only for my laptop to crash and lose the whole lot. I mean, yes, I should have saved a copy but that’s besides the point ;o) Anyway… I actually managed to get some reading under my belt, over the weekend, and ‘Doctor Who and the Underworld’ was what I like to call ‘the straightforward one’. Well compared to the more involved ‘Ring’ and whatever the hell was happening in ‘The Boys Omnibus Volume 2’… Yep, it was straightforward and that’s just what this Graeme needed (you’ll hear no apologies from me!) And it was fun too, let me tell you a bit about it… Exploring the very edge of the known universe, the Doctor, Leela and K9 discover a group of astronauts searching for the lost gene bank of the Minyan race. During this perilous voyage, the astronauts’ craft plunges into t...

I know... A 'trailer post' followed by 'another trailer post...' Hear me out though :o)  I had a 'Doctor Who' post all written last night, right up until the point where my laptop crashed and lost it completely. I really wish I'd hit 'Save', just once... Anyway, I thought I'd have another go at writing it today but one of the cats brought a live sparrow into the house so my time was taken up 'sparrow rescuing' instead. Luckily, the cat is a bit stupid so the sparrow is fine :o) I'd pretty much given up on a blog post for today, at that point, until I was going through YouTube, over lunch, and saw that the 'Doomsday' trailer had just landed. It's looking pretty good, don't you think? Right, a little more work and then I'll see if I can remember what I wrote in that 'Doctor Who' post... 

Almost five years ago, I read James Murray and Darren Wearmouth's 'Don't Move' and, well... You can read my thoughts over Here but one of the things that I said about the book was that it was 'Definitely written with a movie in mind' (talking about the ending in particular but, the whole book really). Well... I'm not saying that anyone else outside of a few regular visitors, and some AI Bots, read my review but... Here's a trailer and all of a sudden, I'm really excited :o) 'Don't Move' will be in cinemas in September. In the meantime, do give the book a go if you get the chance; if you like 'giant spider horror', 'Don't Move' has you covered.

Sorry it has been quiet here these past couple of days… I’ll be honest, the mixture of medication that I’m on (and the heat) left me absolutely shattered and in no fit state for work, or blogging. So, I did neither :o) Took a couple of days off sick (back into work on Monday) and didn’t even think about blogging. I have been up to other things, mostly cat-sitting (the girls and my ex-partner are away) and all the ‘fun’ that entails – no pun intended ;o) At the time of writing, the cat ‘most likely to do a runner’ is snoozing on a chair; the cat ‘most likely to snooze on a chair’ legged it after dinner and hasn’t been seen since. I’ve got another week of this :o) What I also have though is access to my ex-partner’s Disney+ account and I’ll be using it, over the week, to catch up on, well… I don’t know :o) Any recommendations? I do know that I am way behind with my ‘MCU watching’ so yesterday, I figured I’d put a little dent in that list and... ‘Thunderbolts*’ (2025) When a group of spec...

  Page Count: 124 Pages So yesterday was sick leave (nothing serious, don’t worry) and I spent the day in my trusty comfy chair, working my way through ‘Todd and the Book of Pure Evil’ (funnier than I thought it would be). Luckily for this post, I also spent a chunk of my time reading ‘Doctor Who and the Monster of Peladon’; a book that I haven’t read since, erm… a long time ago. Yep, this is one of those posts where I end up feeling really quite old… Anyway, a re-read then but it had been so long that it felt like I was coming to the book for the first time. Let me tell you about it… Fifty years after his first visit to Peladon, the Doctor returns to find that Queen Thalira has inherited a troubled kingdom from her father. Membership of the Galactic Federation was expected to bring peace and prosperity to the planet, but the spirit of the sacred monster Aggedor is once more spreading terror and death. The Doctor uncovers a treacherous plot to steal the mineral wealth of Peladon, a...

  Page Count: 405 pages After a ‘not so great’ experience with ‘Domain’, I really needed my next read to be a decent one, that’s what led me back to ‘Carnage Unending’; an anthology that I’d started reading, about a month ago(ish) but had somehow found its way way to the bottom of a pile of books on my desk. It’s funny how that seems to happen fairly regularly at the moment… Anyway :o) I figured a little ‘Warhammer 40k’ reading would be a safe bet and I’d already read a fair chunk of 'Carnage Unending' so it would be a fairly quick read as well. As it turned out… Both of these were true, to a point. I’m not going to go into my usual ‘something for everyone’ spiel (oh, hang on…) but lets just say that for me, ‘Carnage Unending’ was a decent palate cleanser after ‘Domain’ with a varied set of tales from the sides of ‘Imperium’ and ‘Ork’. The other thing I realised is that after a ‘negative read’, I am much less inclined to stick with a story if it’s not doing it for me. I’m sure ...