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 , [...]
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Book Review – Ready Player One – Ernest Cline.
Posted: 23rd August 2011 by Mathew Bridle in Articles, Book Review, Mathew's Blog, Member's BlogsI 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 [...]
Runes of the Earth – Stephen Donaldson
Posted: 16th August 2011 by Mathew Bridle in Articles, Book Review, Book Review, Mathew's Blog, Member's BlogsTags: Book Review, Fantasy Novel, stephen donaldson, thomas covenant
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 [...]
Book Review: Percy Jackson and the lightening thief – Rick Riordan
Posted: 5th August 2011 by Mathew Bridle in Articles, Book Review, Book Review, Mathew's Blog, Member's BlogsTags: Book Review, greek gods, Horsham Writers, Mathew E C Bridle, percy jackson, rick riordan
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, [...]
Book Review: The Human Race – O.C. Heaton
Posted: 3rd August 2011 by Mathew Bridle in Articles, Book Review, Book Review, Mathew's Blog, Member's BlogsTags: Book Review, Mathew E C Bridle, Sci Fi
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 cards had been the first thing he’d learnt. His grandmother valued them too highly to let his education in their tricks fall to anyone else. The summer of 1800 he’d spent in her garden learning to shuffle and interpret. ‘You see how it’s done? Patience is what you need, though I don’t expect you’ll [...]
The flicker of cards, a quickly beating heart Stopping once you see the name Green inked by a spinsters spider hand Evans, Mary Ann Pseudonyms anathema to this recorder Black letters typed beneath refer you back Eliot, George The intercession of a later woman Six by five and six by five again A wooden tomb [...]