Someone moved the goalposts while I was not looking so my well- aimed kick at crossbar drifted tamely into touch . Fervent , red – faced referee blew hard upon his whistle and brought the game to a halt though all those others kept on playing scoring tries from their own pitch half . [...]
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 [...]
On a dark December afternoon daylight was about to disappear and an eager moon begun to re -assert itself behind fast – moving slivers of grey , sullen cloud . I levered it from the soil severing the ground – level cord connecting it to it’s parent . More in hope than expectation , [...]
We heard them before we saw them. Drums banging, boots crunching. Everyone in the village was out in the square slowly forming into a half moon in front of the soldiers as they stomped their shining black boots in time with the drums. Then there was silence. One soldier came forward, his scarlet jacket a [...]
“Can you hear the drums,” the General yanked the man’s head up so that he could look into the bloodied and bruised eyes, “Fernando?” he jerked his head back down again Fernando felt nothing. “They are counting down the remainder of your life,” the General spat in Fernando’s face, the spittle mingling with blood from [...]
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 always had the idea that I saw one on a weekday winter evening out in the car with my parents . I heard it’s salutary screech through closed windows . I noticed it’s flat round head and it’s white wings beating wildly . I marked it off in my bird book kept the memory [...]
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. [...]