Lord Samper's Library

I've been deep in 'Empire of Grass' this week (and it's a big book so when I say 'deep'...) so I haven't had a lot of time to read anything else. And that's before we get onto work and how that's been... It's at times like this then that I'm glad I have an HBR (Have Been Read) pile that I can dip into and keep things ticking over ;o) I had a little root around and 'Dark Imperium' was the book that popped out. It's been a while since I read 'Dark Imperium' so I thought I'd better post something before I forget it entirely (easily done these days...) And so here we are. Fell times have come to the galaxy. Cadia has fallen, destroyed by the onslaught of Chaos. A Great Rift in the warp has opened and from its depths spew daemons and the horrors of Old Night. But all hope is not lost… A hero, long absent, has returned, and with him comes the wrath of the Ultramarines reborn. Roboute Guilliman has arisen to lead the Impe...

Well, the plan for last night was to hole up with some pizza and see if I could get another hundred pages into 'Empire of Grass'. That was the plan... What really happened was that while I wasn't constantly hitting 'refresh', on the laptop, and trying to keep up with the troubles of Boris Johnson (all very much deserved, fuck you Boris); I was busy trying to figure out where I'd left my copy of 'Empire of Grass'. Under my dressing gown of course, where else would I leave it? I still got pizza though ;o) By the time I'd managed to stop myself refreshing the news page, that didn't leave me with a lot of time for reading but luckily I always have a few anthologies ready for just this kind of situation. I'd already decided to tackle 'Warcry' one story at a time and while I was looking for that book, I found my copy of 'The Harrowed Paths' as well. It was like someone was telling me to read something from that book too... So that...

Last weekend was a busy one but I still managed to find some time to watch a few movies, one ‘re-watch’ along with a couple that I’d always meant to watch and finally had the chance to do just that. I’ll be honest, the ‘re-watch’ was just as good as I knew it would be but the other two…? They were more of a mixed bag. Let me tell you all about them… ‘Childs Play’ (1988) First up is the re-watch and I’m not going to recap the plot because, well… we all know it already don’t we? I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve watched ‘Childs Play’ but it still manages to creep the hell out of me, every single time. This is mostly because of the way that the movie draws out the moments leading up to a killing but also, you very rarely see Chucky do the deed until later on in the film. There are a lot of ‘fill the gaps in yourself’ moments, over the course of the film, and you end up freaking yourself out doing just that. Well played ‘Childs Play’, well played. The animatronics hold up really w...

I always seem to find an excuse not to come up with a 'My Top 10 Doctor Who Stories' list but if I ever do, it's a safe bet that 'The Curse of Fenric' will be sat very high up that list. Easily in the top five. I love all Doctor Who stories (well,  not all of them  but you know what I mean) but I have a real soft spot for 'The Curse of Fenric'. I won't go into the 'whys' again, you can either take my word for it or read my review over  Here  ;o) I used to have a copy of the novelisation, back in the day, which I loved to pieces but had to get rid of it during one of many house moves so as soon as it finally settled in that I could be in my current flat as long as I wanted, I had a little look on Amazon and found another copy to replace it :o) I found myself with a couple of hours to kill, yesterday evening, so settled down for a read... You can probably guess which way this post is going but bear with me ;o) 'If this is a top secret naval...

Bloody hell, I'd only just got last week out of the way and now here's another one to deal with. It's cool, I've got this ;o) This should have been yesterday's post but yesterday ended up kind of getting away from me (not in a bad way, just incredibly busy) so it's today's post instead. If I hadn't said, you probably wouldn't have noticed... ;o) But anyway... We're entering that time of the month, once again, where the book purchases start to dry up, mostly because I need to buy food but also because a tiny, guilty part of me starts to think about all the books that I've bought and should be reading... I'm working on that but in the meantime, a few books have still managed to find their way back to mine, just a few... Let me show you. A day will come when I do one of these posts and don't feature a book by Guy N. Smith. Today though... Today is not that day ;o) I saw 'Satan's Snowdrop' going cheap on eBay and had to grab i...

It's looking good... Does HBO have a streaming service? *Googles*... Ooh, it does have a streaming service. I might have to fork out for that now... Look out for 'House of the Dragon' in August.

Just to prove that I do read ‘whole books’ every now and then… 😉 It’s been a bit of a crazy week but it’s done now and I’m hoping to get a couple more books under my belt over the weekend. Lets see how that pans out, shall we? In the meantime… For a number of reasons (all of which were on me, not the books), I’ve been the only person (on Book Twitter) who couldn’t get into John Gwynne’s ‘Faithful and the Fallen’ books. Like I said, it’s not the books. I’ve either been burnt out on reading, hellishly busy at work or falling foul of my inability to finish series that are longer than a trilogy. ‘The Faithful and the Fallen’ is only one book longer than that but it counts ☹ I couldn’t help but feel like I was missing out though, especially when the rest of Book Twitter was having a great time with the books, and if there’s one thing I hate, it’s feeling like I’m missing out on something. So I thought I’d give ‘The Shadow of the Gods’ a go and see how I did with that. It was only the o...