Lord Samper's Library

I’ll be honest, I’m really not sure how Wednesday has turned up so quickly, given that the last couple of days have gone so slowly. I’ll take it though, just a few more days until the weekend :o) Yesterday was a day in the office and I had a book in my bag all ready for the bus ride there and back. That was the plan anyway… What actually happened was that I overslept and had to take a train instead. Have you ever tried reading on the rush hour train? Yeah… And if that wasn’t bad enough, I fell asleep on the bus going home; not the best day for reading then ;o) And that means today’s post is one about the little bits and pieces that I’ve managed to read/listen to over the last couple of days. Hope you don’t mind… ‘More Sinned Against’ – Karl Edward Wagner Page Count: 15 Pages I’ve had a copy of Karl Edward Wagner’s ‘In A Lonely Place’ sat on my shelf for far too long now and I thought I’d dip into it and pick a story, at random, for a read. For a little context, I’ve read some of Wagner...

  Page Count: 202 Pages The hospital was pretty busy yesterday so there was a bit of a wait to see the Doctor and then, an even longer wait to pick up my tablets afterwards. Was I annoyed though, or even slightly bothered? Not this Graeme... If I’m going to be sat in a hospital waiting room, you can be damn sure that I’ll have a book or two in my bag and that’s exactly what I had yesterday ;o) It’s been a little while since I read some Warhammer 40K but I’m not quite ready to jump into another long series (not yet anyway) so Mike Brooks’ ‘Huron Blackheart: Master of the Maelstrom’, and its slim page count, seemed like a good alternative. A bite sized chunk of ‘grimdark far future’ and a leading man whom I’d heard a lot about but never really seen much of. It couldn’t go wrong, could it…? Of course it couldn’t, and it didn’t. The renegade leader of the Red Corsairs must adapt to an Imperium led by Roboute Guilliman, all while struggling to retain power in the face of dissension amon...

I’m not one for coming up with long, sprawling, posts here at the best of times, not any more. Today’s post though is definitely going to be shorter than usual, sorry about that :o) To be fair, it’s my first day back at work, after annual leave, and we all know how that goes. And on top of that, I’ll be at the hospital for most of the afternoon with blood tests and so on. And if that wasn’t enough, I felt pretty sick for most of yesterday so didn’t really read that much anyway… Not the worst problems to have but yeah, today is a ‘short post day’. I did get a little reading under my belt, yesterday, though and given the state I was in, a little ‘Doctor Who’ seemed like the best way forward. And I was pretty keen to crack open those old hardbacks that I found the other day ; given the state some of the pages were in, I thought I should read them while they were still attached to the books… ;o) There weren’t any big surprises to be had here; as a rule, Terrance Dicks sticks very closely t...

Yesterday ended up being a little bit of a bonus for this Graeme… :o) My daughters wanted to spend some time with their Mum and I had nothing urgent to take care of (or if I did, I’d totally forgotten what it was, that happens more often than it should) so… I slept in for as long as I could (I didn’t beat any records but it was a good attempt) and spent the rest of the day either reading, watching TV or prowling my flat, trying to satisfy a craving for a particular food that I still can’t quite identify. Tell me I’m not the only person who does that? Anyway… I settled for a couple of Bao Buns in the end (I had to eat something…) but that doesn’t really make for much of a blog post here so, let me tell you a little bit about some movies that I watched... ‘Thrash’ (2026) I’ve got a bit of a soft spot for ‘Shark’ and ‘Croc’ movies, at the moment, so when ‘Thrash’ popped up on Netflix, it was an easy decision to make for a little Saturday afternoon viewing. But… Is it just me or do most Ne...

Apologies for the lack of blogging yesterday! I'll be honest... After a spirited defense, this week finally got the better of me on Thursday night. Whatever book I was reading at the time (I can't remember), I just put it down and went to bed. And that left me with nothing to post about yesterday but you know what? Sometimes that's ok :o) I don't think I touched a book yesterday but that was ok too; I spent some proper quality time with my daughters and hung out with the kitten while she was coming off her anaesthetic (she had 'that' operation). The kitten is fine by the way, just really drugged up and a little more unpredictable than usual... It seemed like a good time then to have a little re-set of the ol' TBR pile and set some reading goals for the next few weeks. Notice I said 'weeks'... I got a little carried away, browsing the bookshelves, and there's no way that I'm going to finish this little lot anytime soon (especially as I'll ...

  Page Count: 168 Pages Newsagents everywhere hate me for this but I’ve got a habit of saving winning scratch-cards and cashing them in en masse. Luckily for all concerned, it’s only a problem when I have a run of good luck ;o) A bit of an odd way to open a post here then but essentially, that’s what led me to ‘Plunge’; a small run of winning scratch-cards and a need to be out of my ex’s house for a bit. Well, more like the eldest cats need for me to be out of my ex’s house for a bit, I’m considerate like that ;o) I love some horror, in my comic book reading, and while I’d never heard of ‘Plunge’, Joe Hill’s name on the front cover did exactly what it was placed there to do. Chemotherapy has knocked a few holes in my memory but I promise, this is really the last of the books that I read over the Bank Holiday Weekend... PLUNGE INTO TERROR!  In 1983, a state-of-the-art drilling ship, the Derleth, vanished near the Arctic Circle. Decades later, it has begun sending a distress cal...