Lord Samper's Library

  Page Count: 254 Pages (at least as far as the ‘Word Bearers Omnibus’ Collection is concerned) These days, I’m trying not to ‘read the sequel’ straight after finishing the first book; it helps me keep my reading ‘fresh’ but perhaps more importantly, it saves this blog from getting too repetitive. It has happened here before and it’s always a little awkward, isn’t it? ;o) Last night though… I’d just come off the back of the kind of Monday where it’s not only a Monday (which is bad enough) but also a Monday where I’ve only got ten working days left before my job finishes up. There were all sorts of confusing thoughts going round my head then and on days like that, well… Those days are exactly the kind of days where you jump straight into a sequel and blog be damned. I was after something familiar and a bit distracting, don’t judge me ;o) ‘Dark Disciple’ it was then and while I might just take a little break now, before tackling the final book ‘Dark Creed’, this ended up being just t...

  Page Count: 415 Pages This weekend was not a good one for reading or blog posts, you probably noticed ;o) Lets just say that it was far too hot and Cat 1 finally lost all patience with Cat 2. Not that Cat 2 really cared much at all, she just got on with the important work of polishing off Cat 1’s breakfast when she got the chance. Honestly, I’m just glad that both of them are back with their owner and no longer my problem ;o) (I miss them…) I did manage to read one book though, just the one (and mainly whenever the cats took themselves off to find a shady spot)… I found a copy of Anthony Reynolds’ ‘Dark Apostle’, Greenwich Oxfam (again), the other day, and while it was a re-read, that worked for me as it was just too hot to read something new. And I say ‘re-read’ but does it count if the last time you read it was seventeen years ago? Anyway… While I’d say never trust a Heretic Astartes (although the World Eaters are surprisingly honest about their aims), the Word Bearers are part...