While in Margaret River, I bought a couple of books, this one calling out to me because of its title and bright yellow cover. I’m glad I didn’t read it on a flight to Hawaii[…]
Continue reading …
Category: Books
Death Bowl / Rumble In The Jungle
I polished off the last two Blood Bowl novels over the last week, reading them under bedcovers while waiting for our children to go to sleep, on planes, or when I could have been reading[…]
Continue reading …
Dead Ball
I just finished reading a second Blood Bowl novel, better than the first. The lousy editing has gone, it’s easier to keep track of who’s who because the author murders 11 members of the 16[…]
Continue reading …
The World According To Danny Dyer
It hardly needs to be said that The World According To Danny Dyer is a strange book. I thought it was strange and I’d finished it last week, just before I went on the tramadol.[…]
Continue reading …
Blood Bowl – the novel
Right now, my world smells and tastes like chalk. I think it’s either a side effect or a direct effect of all the painkillers I’m on – the horse-pill sized paracetamol, the tiny green tramadol,[…]
Continue reading …
Forever And A Day
I read Anthony Dershowitz’ Trigger Mortis, a sequel to Goldfinger where James Bond unequivocally does not get Pussy Galore, at the start of 2017. In the mood for a bit more retro-Bond action, I downloaded[…]
Continue reading …
The Wallcreeper
I finished The Wallcreeper, sold to me alongside Mislaid, feeling a little disappointed, although the fault may have been more with me than the book.
Continue reading …
Mislaid
At a bit of a loss at what to do, I read an issue of the London Review of Books and a review of Nell Zink’s most recent books, Nicotine and Private Novelist, piqued my[…]
Continue reading …
Deep State
Deep State is the second Dagmar Shaw novel. It’s a sequel to This Is Not A Game, a feverish near-future novel by Walter Jon Williams that had a convincing, frantic first third through Jakarta. Deep[…]
Continue reading …
The Talon Of Horus
As is normal on Sundays, I got woke up by La Serpiente refusing to sleep in and had to take her out for pancakes to prevent the maelstrom that would ensue if she woke her[…]
Continue reading …