For the past month I have hardly been at home but as one of the titles was violent murder, a subject right up my street, I may save this homework for another month. However, rather than be completely blank I have a little to say on a book I read recently which may give some sort of [...]
I had never heard of Ernest Cline before this book arrived at my door and now I am glad that I have. Having been there at the birth of the home computer revolution, owned a number of those pieces of plastic history that I remember with more fondness than any of my old girlfriends this [...]
I love the cinema. For a couple of hours or so I can lose myself in another world, one that fully engages my senses and yet at the same time leaves me a curious bystander to the action. Then, when the final credits roll and normality returns, I want to feel touched and changed by [...]
Book seven in the saga and … it is very different. For a one there is no Thomas Covenant. Instead the dilemma of the white gold is taken up by Linden Avery which was obvious after the last book as Covenant had died in his own world. 10 years later and Linden Avery now has [...]
I have been meaning to read this book for quite some time. Having watched my 11 year old daughter practically destroy it with her re-reading I thought that I had better act quickly. I was glad that I did. Percy Jackson is a demigod, the son of Poseidon no less, one of the big three, [...]
Now here is an unusual book. The author, Mr Heaton, has clearly spent many a long day researching all things Icelandic, American airline history and a great deal of quantum physics relating to the plausibility of teleportation. Then he has taken said research and built a novel around it without killing the story at all. [...]
The second Thomas Covenant Trilogy comes to an end with a more than satisfying conclusion. As is the norm with Thomas Covenant we are treated to a fair number of introspective moments as indeed we are with Linden Avery. But not without good reason. The love between the two lead characters is complicated by their [...]
“Stone and Sea.” Can there be any more perilous a journey than that of Ur-Lord Thomas Covenant The Unbeliever and White Gold wielder Giantfriend? Could his title get any longer? Linden Avery now moves slowly to the fore as the questers sail the seas hounded by a Raver that assails them at the worst possible times. [...]
Having enjoyed the first Chronicles of Thomas Covenant so much I could not resist diving straight into the second. Within a few pages you soon discover that this chronicles has been written as single story instead of three connected ones. How so? Well, this book does not come to a satisfying conclusion as all three [...]
In March 2010 after a false start seven years earlier , Sarah Joyce signed to Atlantic Records and changed her name to Rumer . During last summer ‘Slow ‘ a haunting ballad of unrequited love was heard reqularly on Radio2 and Smooth Radio . It’s hypnotic melody and triple – tracked chorus made a strong impression [...]