Lord Samper's Library

The last few weeks haven't been great for reading but I have managed to get a few comics and a couple of books under my belt. I'm going to have to space posts out a bit (things are still very busy what with one thing and everything else...) but posts will happen ;o) In the meantime, I've got a few books on the go along with some others that I'd like to get to sooner rather than later (we'll see how that goes). Lets take a look, shall we? Apologies in advance for the photos... I am reading the 'Siege of Terra' books completely out of order, more or less based on whatever cover happens to catch my eye ;o) 'Mortis' has a massive Titan, attacking the walls of the Imperial Palace, so there was no contest really. It has been a slog to get through, more on that another time, but I'm on the home straight and the plan is to finish it today, Fingers crossed and all that ;o) 'Fifteen Hours' is in this pile as the Book Stooge had things to say about...

Is to enjoy what you're reading ;o) It really is that simple but it's something that it's all too easy to forget, especially when there is so much else going on that we have to deal with. My days have been packed recently, work in particular has been really demanding, and my mental health has taken a bit of a beating, to the point where I've seriously considered jacking the blog in, just to give myself a little breathing space. The thing is though, I'm still enjoying the blog enough to want to keep going with it so... What needed to change? For me, part of it was that sense of obligation around certain books that have been piled up for far too long and have me feeling all guilty that they'll never be read. That's fairly easily sorted, I'm in the process of having a bit of a cull (okay, a lot of a cull...) to get rid of some of the more obvious books that won't ever be read. No pressure to get it done but it will happen. The second part was just as si...

I'm one day in and it's already becoming clear that this won't be one of those holiday weeks where loads of reading gets done; not until the girls go off on holiday with their Mum anyway. The thing is though, having a reading plan worked so well last time that I really want to do it again and see what happens, even though I know that will be 'no books being read because I was trying to stop my kids from killing each other. In the spirit of hopeless optimism then... Lets take a look at what I'll be reading this week, given half a chance... A nice easy one to kick things off as I'm actually in and out of both of these books as we speak ;o) A couple of days ago, I'd have said I'd finish 'Dominion' first but then I had a little brain snap and it's full steam ahead with 'Stormbringer!' I really need to finish this 'Elric Re-Read'... Nothing against 'The Hangman Feeds The Jackal' (which is looking very good so far) but the ...

I'd more or less stopped doing these posts as I just wasn't getting the books read and it had reached the point where I could have just posted any old picture and still not read the book... Where was the point in that? I'm feeling a little more confident about this week's reading, this time round, so here goes and we'll see how it pans out this time next week... I had to put 'Empire of Grass' down, last year, as it just wasn't working for me back then. Right now though? I'm just over halfway through and it's a slow burner but it's so richly detailed (and the new characters have a found their voice now) that I don't mind; I'm in it until the end now. I'd like to finish it this week, so I can start on 'Into The Narrowdark', but I'll be a little sad when I do. We'll see... I'm in the office, a couple of days this week, so I've picked a couple of shorter reads for the commute (or for the end of a long day when ...

So, at the beginning of last month (more or less) I posted a picture of all the books I was reading and invited your laughter at my  strange ability to start several books at once and somehow finish precisely none of them... Well, roughly a month has gone by and I thought it might be cool to make it monthly feature on the blog and actually see what I've been able to finish (or not) Here we are then, it's the beginning of March and the 'In Progress TBR Pile' is looking a little something like this, So, not the best month for reading then (the books in the picture anyway, I did read other things)... Out of last month's pile, I managed to finish 'Eric' and 'The Fortress of the Pearl' (review to come) but nothing else. I'm blaming work (of which there was loads). Of course, you could look at that picture and say that I read 40% of the books in the pile. That sounds a lot better doesn't it? Thank you ;o) My workload hasn't gone down at all, ...

This week hasn't been a bad one but it just hasn't been a week conducive to reading. In fact, the only reading I've really done (apart from 'An Occurrence in Crazy Bear Valley' )  has been going through the feedback covering the documentation that I produce for work... One day, I will produce something for work that's perfect straight off the bat; not today though. Seriously, I could barely see what I'd written underneath everything else that everyone else had written.  But anyway... In the absence of anything else, I thought it might be fun to post a picture of the books that I'm trying (and failing) to read right now. You can all laugh at my inability to finish all the cool books that everyone else read months ago ;o) I know it's not a race but I'm coming last anyway... When you've all finished laughing, maybe leave a comment saying what book I should concentrate on at the expense of all the others? Go on... Anyway, take a look at these lov...