Books for the TBR Pile... 'Still On Call' Edition

Morning all :o)

Apologies for the 'blog silence' yesterday. I'm 'on-call' for work and yesterday, I got a call that took a fair while to resolve. If it is resolved that is... I should hopefully find out later on this morning. When I wasn't on-call, I was hanging out with my youngest daughter and that was a lot more fun. I'll be honest, I didn't think of the blog once but, here we are now ;o) Lets talk books, shall we?

It has been (another) one of those weeks and it coincided with payday so I thought I'd cheer myself up in the best way that I know how, book shopping :o) 


I've skimmed the first couple of chapters of 'Scuttler's Cove' and it looks very promising, promising enough that I thought I'd take a chance on 'Withered Hill'. I will be reading 'Scuttler's Cove' first but 'Withered Hill' won't be far away.
I'm more about the shorter reads, at the moment, but finally finishing 'Into the Narrowdark' has given me a little taste for for a chunkier read and so I thought it was time to give 'Legacy of Ash' another go. I'll be reading 'The Navigator's Children' first but again, this one won't be far away.
Having said that though, I'm still very much about the short reads as well. Warhammer 40,000 books have really been there for me, just recently, and so 'Siege of Vraks' was an easy purchase. I might pick it up for a read today.


'Deadpool: Paws' was a book that I enjoyed years ago and I need books that I enjoy right now so this was another easy purchase; I can see this one being a commuting read later this week.
And 'Horus Rising' & 'Fulgrim' were bought to fill in a couple of gaps in my 'Horus Heresy' collection. I feel a re-read of the first four or five books coming on, might be a little while before that happens though.

And that's your lot for this week; I'm going to sit by my work phone and hope that it doesn't ring ;o)

Anything here catch your eye? Leave a comment and let me know.

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