Books for the TBR Pile... 'Waiting impatiently for Payday' Edition

Yep, it's that time of the month again where Payday is tantalizingly close but still not quite close enough for it to make any difference at all. I've been in worse spots though, I just need to hang in there for a couple more days and it will all be good :o) This is the main reason why the book hunting hasn't gone so well over the last week, that and the fact that I really should give the charity shops more time to replenish their stock. Like I said, give it a couple of days and next week's 'book post' will be very different ;o) But that's next week though... I did manage to turn up some interesting looking books over the last week; lets take a look at them, shall we?

Just up the road from my ex-wife's place, there's an old phone box that has been turned into a 'take a book, leave a book, library' type affair. I love it, mostly because you never know what you'll find there (my first 'Deadpool' comic book came from there, amongst other things). I was in the area, the other day, so thought I'd take a look and that's where 'Sword in the Storm' comes in. I actually have a copy already but not with this cover so I grabbed it. I might have to take my other copy up there now. Review? Well, not for a long time but I do need to re-read the 'Rigante' books so... maybe.

There seem to be 'Flashman' books popping up all over the place at the moment; this one turned up in the Lewisham Cancer Research shop and was only a couple of quid for a hardback. I read the first 'Flashman' book, years ago, but never made it to the other books but it's a series that I think I'd enjoy so am picking the books up when I see them. Review? Yep, definitely but I've got two other 'Flashman' books that I need to read first...


'Deathtroopers' has always been a bit of a comfort read for me (I have the oddest taste in comfort reading but anyway...) and I didn't have a copy (moving house loads, had to get rid of books etc) so this was a 'must purchase' when I saw it. Review? Oh yes, I just don't know when...

'The Feaster from the Stars' was another 'Cancer Research Purchase' and is a book that I'd never heard of before I saw it on the shelf. It looks like it could be my thing though... Are you ready for I think is the longest blurb ever? Here goes...

LONDON, 1899
Something strange is happening on the London Underground.
The ghosts which haunt the platforms and tunnels are being seen much more frequently than usual, and it seems that they have become angry and frightened for some reason. There is, apparently, something on the network of which even the dead are afraid, and the train drivers and other staff are becoming increasingly reluctant to work there. The new atmospheric railway is being installed, and the railway companies are demanding that the mystery be solved before their investments go up in a puff of steam.
When a train driver named Alfie Morgan is driven insane by something indescribable in the remote section of the network known as the Kennington Loop, Queen Victoria instructs her Bureau of Clandestine Affairs to investigate. Enter Thomas Blackwood, Special Investigator, and Lady Sophia Harrington, Secretary of the Society for Psychical Research. Along with Detective Gerhard de Chardin of the Metropolitan Templar Police and the famous occultist Simon Castaigne, Blackwood and Sophia plunge into a terrifying adventure which takes them from the dank tunnels of the London Underground to the depths of interstellar space and a dying planet known as Carcosa, where a horrific being from beyond the ordered universe has set its sights on Earth. The being is known as the King in Yellow, or the Feaster from the Stars, and unless Blackwood and Sophia can prevail, it will descend upon the Earth and consume every living thing upon it!

Review? If I remember that's it on a TBR pile (there are a few now...) then 'The Feaster from the Stars' could well turn up in next months list of books that I want to read. Lets see how I get on with this months list first though. It's not going brilliantly so far :o)

And that's that for this week, are there any books here that take your fancy? Leave a comment and let me know ;o)

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