Continuing from last month and being serious about trying to make this a regular feature, here’s the second instalment of “What Are You Reading?”. Not only is it a good way for me to hopefully engage with you guys, but it also gives me a bit of space to talk about books I may not […]
Category: Books
What Are You Reading? Feb 2021
I have a habit of trying to do regular posts that tie into one big thing, like my Final Fantasy IX playthrough (hopefully some positive news on that soon), Hitchcock watch, Book Club and Top 100 Movies. There have been others too, and I’ll return to all of them at different times depending on what […]
A Dance With Dragons 2: After the Feast – George R R Martin
I must admit I spent a long time with this book wondering if and when anything was going to happen, despite being the second part of a much bigger book, it felt like it was setting things up for another part. But then THAT ending. I’m left not wanting more, but NEEDING more. Now I […]
A Dance with Dragons 1: Dreams and Dust – George R R Martin
I’m opening this by saying I’m actually typing this up having just finished the second part of A Dance with Dragons, I should have written this up back in October or November of last year, but, well, didn’t. I did have notes though, and I’m fleshing them out as best as I can to complete […]
Vic Lee’s Corona Diary 2020: A personal illustrated journal of the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020 – Vic Lee
I think over the next six to twelve months we’re going to be seeing more of this kind of thing, diaries detailing the events of 2020 and the personal impact they’ve had upon the authors, or self-help books designed around surviving 2021 because, and let’s be brutally honest here, this is not going away any […]
Rogue Planet – Cullen Bunn, Andy MacDonald, Nick Filardi
When the heavily in debt crew of the salvage vessel happen upon a distress beacon coming from the planet “Lonely Orphan” which has no solar system to call home, things don’t work out the way they hoped in this sci-fi horror comic from Oni Press. The book opens up aboard the Cortes as the crew […]
Lord of Light – Roger Zelazny
2020 has been tough on everyone, a lot of us have lost our outlets and opportunities to socialise. Some of that is slowly coming back and I think there’ll be more appreciation of those situations once we have a bit more freedom. I’m not the most social person, I’m awful at making plans and committing […]
Kusama: A Graphic Biography – Elisa Macellari
Yayoi Kusama is an artist that I wasn’t aware that I knew, I’d seen pictures of some of her work in the tome-like books that were in the rooms I took GCSE Art & Design, I remember seeing pictures of her mirrored balls, and yet I’d never retained her name. It was only through reading […]
Ten Thousand Light Years From Home – James Triptree Jr
“Ten Thousand Light Years From Home” is a collection of fifteen short stories that take place here on Earth and in outer space. First published in 1973 the stories were collected under a pen name: James Triptree Jr, but were written by a woman: Alice Bradley Sheldon. Sheldon is a fascinating woman, and unlike the […]
My Riot – Rick Spears, Emmett Helen
Young Adult novels, and in this case, comics, tend to follow a similar formula (or at least from my experience they do): Young girl challenges the norms of her society in order to discover herself. My Riot is no different in that respect, however rather than settle for a dystopian future setting, we go way […]