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  • The Rising

    Today I devoured The Rising, Ian Tregillis’ second book about Dutch automata fighting French Canadians in an alternate 1920s setting. (Yes, it is slightly strange.) I enjoyed this more than the first novel, The Mechanical, perhaps because there’s less world-building going on this time and more action. (There is a bit too much action sometimes, […]

  • Unwise reading material?

    Last night we had friends over to play board games and drink booze, but unfortunately La Serpiente wasn’t on board with this, and flopped and shouted and clambered out of bed until almost nine p.m. This was probably our fault for letting her sleep until 3:30 yesterday afternoon, but who wakes a sleeping baby? The […]

  • The Annihilation Score

    I read the latest Charles Stross Laundry Files novel, The Annihilation Score, mostly on the plane back to Singapore. Unlike our flight out a couple of weeks ago, there were lots of empty seats, and La Serpiente slept on her own seat (mostly) rather than occupying my lap.

  • Twentieth Century Blues

    I had a lousy time at the track tonight. I’ve missed too many sessions lately, and as well as flying to London and back last week I had a race, so I shouldn’t have expected much. To exacerbate matters, instead of getting a good night’s sleep last night (when I really could have, as La […]

  • Edge Of Tomorrow

    Tonight we rented Edge Of Tomorrow, that Tom Cruise film with a terribly generic title that’s basically Groundhog Day crossed with Starship Troopers.

  • Robocop

    Today we went to see Robocop: it was released in Singapore a week before the UK, and twelve days before it showed in the USA. The original Robocop was one of the mainstays of my teenage years, until the VHS tape wore out, and I wasn’t alone. When the remake was announced, there was a […]