Lord Samper's Library

Page Count – 20 Pages Apologies for the brief radio silence, life stepped in and demanded some attention… For what it’s worth, I didn’t read an awful lot over the last couple of days. I did make some decent inroads into ‘Into the Narrowdark’ but am still a good couple of hundred pages away from the finish line. Just a quick post today as ‘Down Amongst the Dead Men’ was a short and sweet read that I got into on the way to yesterday’s hospital appointment. That and the fact that I have my half-year review tomorrow morning, that’s taking up a lot of my brain right now :o( In the meantime then, On the nightmare world of Krieg, the elite Death Korps practise their killing arts against the only enemy they have available: those among the population unsuitable to join the regiments of the Imperial Guard. In the midst of a live-fire exercise, one of these human targets disobeys orders and follows the trail of a mysterious alien beast, one that could spell doom for all of Krieg if it is not s...

 I know the trailers have been doing the rounds for a while but... I'm getting excited about this movie and it's out on the 21st so, here's the red band trailer for you if you fancy a watch :o) Now I just need to remember which Stephen King collection this is in so I can re-read 'The Monkey' before it's released. And yep, you'll probably see a post about that this week ;o)

Just a quick one today, I've got my daughters coming over later and I've got a few other things to sort out as well. I may even get some sleep before then, we'll see ;o) And I know these posts are usually about the books that I've picked up in the preceding week. Today though, we're all about the books that I picked up, or received as presents, over Christmas. What? I wasn't blogging at that point and they deserve a post of their own ;o) Lets check em' out... 'Sharp Ends' was a little treat to myself and replaces another copy that I gave away (during the 'Big Move') and shouldn't have done. I'll be dipping in and out of it for a little short story action :o)  'Half a King' was a little Christmas Shopping treat to myself; I'd bought everyone else books so figured I deserved one too ;o) It's been years since I read it last but I remember enjoying it so am hoping for the same this time round. There's a Waterstones i...

Page Count: 127 Pages You probably won’t have noticed the difference but the last couple of months have been all about the short reads while I tried to get back into my reading groove again. And for the record, I’m still not quite there but… It’ll come :o) In the meantime, if I’m after a short read then they don’t come a lot shorter than the old ‘Doctor Who’ novelisations. A conversation on Twitter (nope, still not calling it ‘X’) led me back to ‘The Enemy of the World’, a book that I haven’t read since I was nine or ten; quite a while then ;o) I’ve never seen the TV serial either (it’s on the list…) so picking the book up again was almost like reading it for the first time. The year is 2030 and the planet Earth is struck by a series of terrible ‘natural’ disasters. No sooner has the TARDIS landed on an Australian beach, then the Doctor has to flee from attack. A case of mistaken identity – for he is the exact double of Salamander, a despot who will stop at nothing to achieve total ...

I haven’t read an awful lot over the last couple of months (well, nowhere near what I’d normally expect to get through) but I did manage to read a few books and while I try and finally finish ‘Into the Narrowdark’, I thought I’d post my thoughts on those books here. And one of those books was ‘Pariah’, a book that I remembered thoroughly enjoying back in 2010 but somehow, hadn’t gone back to in the intervening years. I was struggling to settle on anything and if you know me, you’ll know that ‘zombie horror’ is a sure fire way of holding my attention so the choice pretty much made itself. So in I dived and… I’ll be honest, there’s still a lot to like about ‘Pariah’ but either I wasn’t quite in the mood for it or the book has lost a little something over the years. I’m not sure, let me see if I can explain. A global plague has nearly vanquished mankind; the citizenry of New York City is no exception. Eight million zombies. Should to shoulder. Walking the streets, looking for their ...

December was a quiet month for reading but, at the same time, it was also a great month for lying in bed (dosed up on codeine) and listening to some old Black Library audiobooks. And yep, I know that audiobooks count as reading but if I don't have an actual book in my hands (or a Kindle) then it doesn't feel like it, you know? That's just me though :o)  Anyway, in the interests of me remembering what I've read, I thought I'd post some quick thoughts here. These were all re-reads (re-listens?) so I'm swiping those thoughts from older posts posted way back when. Cut me a little slack, I'm going to be away over the weekend so wanted to get a couple of things posted before I go ;o) And with all that said, check out some of what I've been listening to... Formerly of the Death Guard Legion, Captain Nathaniel Garro is now on the business of the Regent of Terra himself. Garro doesn’t fully know what this business is as yet but there is only one minor task yet to...

And... I'm back! Did you miss me? I missed you and that's why I'm back, thanks for popping by and keeping the place going while I was gone ;o)  I ended up being away for a little longer than I'd planned. December was all about getting over my surgery and I'll be honest, it was a total write off for reading anything so there was no point in blogging. And then January, and a little bit of February, was about the follow-up appointments plus some other doctor/hospital stuff that's still ongoing. Hopefully I'm going to get most of that sorted fairly soon (fingers crossed). I've also been trying to stay on top of work which has really been stressing me out and that is why I've come back to give blogging another go. I need something fun to take my mind off the stress so... Lets see how I do with this... ;o) I don't think I'm at a post a day right now but I'll try and keep it interesting. It won't surprise you though to learn that I still hav...