Lord Samper's Library

Thankfully, it looks like Covid decided to pay me just a short visit :o) I’m still not a hundred percent, still feeling wiped out, but noticeably better than I was just a couple of days ago. Fingers crossed, I’ll get to enjoy some of my week off with my daughters. I still can’t really concentrate on books though so decided to go with another slice of ‘Doctor Who’, on the telly, last night. I don’t know where I got the idea to finally watch ‘Shada’ as the DVD was definitely not in a position to catch my eye and inspire a viewing… ‘Shada’ was what I was after though and once I’d found it (at the bottom of a small pile of MCU DVDS…) I settled down for a viewing and… ‘Delicate matter, slightly, It’s about a book…’ When Chris Parsons borrows a book from an elderly university professor, he is surprised to find it written in a strange alien language. He is even more surprised when the book is revealed to be not of this earth at all. Chris is about to enter a world of invisible spaceships, mon...

It feels like an absolute age since I last did one of these posts ( back in October last year to be precise ) and what better time to get back into it than a day when all my brain was really good for was watching ‘Doctor Who’ on the telly? Funnily enough, the last time I tried watching some ‘Classic Doctor Who’, for the blog, ‘Planet of Evil’ got the nod but a number of things prevented me from finishing it. Okay… I fell asleep and there was never a good time to get back into it after that, until now that is. Covid may have messed up my sleep routine but it was kind enough to leave me a small window of opportunity to finally watch this story. So that’s what I did, let me tell you all about it… The Doctor and Sarah answer an intergalactic distress call that takes them to a far-flung planet at the edge of the known universe. Arriving at the same time as a rescue team, they search for survivors of an earlier expedition. But will anyone be allowed to leave the planet alive…? I ended up rea...

What...?? A book about zombies and I didn't finish it? Well, it can happen and yesterday it did. To be fair, I don't think it was entirely the book's fault, my brain is all fogged up, with Covid, and that's never conducive to a good reading experience. Even so... Well, we'll get to that in a minute. I saw 'Zombie Apocalypse' in the Catford British Heart Foundation shop and thought it might be a good one for my eldest daughter who enjoyed 'The Girl With All The Gifts' and wants to read more zombie books. She's in Plymouth right now though, and I was after something to read, so I thought I'd have a little re-read (I last read it fourteen years ago) before she got back. And that is where we begin... In the near future, a desperate and ever more controlling UK government attempts to restore a sense of national pride with a New Festival of Britain. But construction work on the site of an old church in South London releases a centuries old plague t...

At some point along the line, I forgot to add the volume numbers. Dammit… Oh well, if you’ve been keeping count, you’ll know that we’re up to Volume 9 and although there are still more volumes left to cover, this book sees the end of a major arc in the life of the Goon. I’m full of Covid (although it’s not as bad as it was the first time I had it) but still managed to stay awake for long enough to finish ‘Calamity of Conscience’. It wasn’t hard, the pages pretty much turn themselves here… All the soldiers head to the battlefield, including the monstrous Wicker Man – apparently the mob boss Labrazio isn’t the only one who has come back from the dead. And those aren’t the only faces who have returned to the town on the edge of Horse-Eater’s Wood. The Goon also needs to face the love of his life, who has come back with a grave secret. But all of these showdowns pale in comparison to the big fight this story this story has been building to… I’m going to keep this one fairly short and sweet...

Turns out that what I thought was a nasty cold, yesterday, is actually a dose of Covid... Not the worst case I've ever had but still not pleasant at all. Oh well, just one day until the weekend now... ;o) With all that going on then, I thought I'd give myself the day off and recycle another post to keep things ticking over here while I get over the Covid. I hope you don't mind another recycled post... That really wasn't meant to be what this blog was all about but at the moment, it's really helping me out so please bear with me just a little bit longer? I did manage to read a little 'Goon' yesterday so the equivalent post, of many years ago, was chosen to get its time in the sun. I've tweaked it a little so if you want the original post, it can be found over Here . For everyone else, lets keep going with this... The Goon thought he had taken care of Labrazio a long time ago but apparently not; he’s back and tearing up the burg in a hail of bullets and ot...

I had a filthy rotten cold yesterday and I'll be honest, I don't feel much better today. Just a couple more days to get through and then I'm on leave... (keep telling yourself that Graeme, just keep telling yourself) I did take some time to read 'A Place of Heartache and Grief', last night, but I need to concentrate on work today (that's going to be hard enough, I do like to have a moan when I get a cold...) so I'm enlisting the help of 'past me' with the actual post. He didn't have a cold, when he posted, as I seem to recall ;o) I've left a paragraph or two out, and changed a couple of bits here and there, so if you want the full original post (and to see what my posts looked like in 2009) then just click Here . With the usual pre-amble done then, let me tell you about 'A Place of Heartache and Grief'... It’s been three months since the Zombie Priest’s demonic creations (‘Chug-Heads’, the offspring of Mother Corpse) made their appear...

Page Count: 152 Pages (Including the ‘Note on the Text(s)’ at the back which I don’t normally read but this one was worth that time spent). My Amazon purchases list swore blind that I had purchased this book and who am I to go against my Amazon purchases list? I couldn’t find ‘The Androids of Tara’ at all though, not until I nudged a pile of books and found it nestled right at the bottom. Turns out that I still have far too many books to read in one lifetime. Oh well, I’d better keep reading then… ;o) I found my copy of ‘The Androids of Tara’ just in time to make it the latest in a long line of ‘short, sweet reads that get me to work and then back again. For reasons that will become clear in a second, there isn’t an awful lot to say about ‘The Androids of Tara’ but that’s never stopped me before so… Here we go ;o) "Why is your first impulse to reach for your swords and never a screwdriver?" The Doctor and Romana's search for the fourth segment of the all-powerful Key to...