Lord Samper's Library

  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...

  The weather is cooling down a bit, at least for now, but my tired (slightly overheated) old brain is taking a little while to catch up so, as you’ve probably gathered, I’m all about the short reads this week. Bits and pieces to keep me ticking over and entertained. And ‘Alien Harvest’, as well, but I already moaned about that yesterday , no more moaning about it today ;o) Anyway… I’m doing pretty well with my, kind of, resolution to read more books that I already own (it’s still a ‘work in progress’ but I’m happy with it) so it was no surprise that I decided to go for a couple of Imperial Guard short stories from the ‘Soldiers of the Imperium’ collection – a book that has gone unread for… lets just say ‘too long’. I picked one tale from an author that I’ve never read and the other tale? Well, does it count as a re-read if I listened to the audio-book years ago and could barely remember the plot when I came back to it the other day? Technically, yes, I guess ;o) Enough of that, le...