I picked up this book after watching BBC’s “Between The Covers”, aside from a spell where I was obsessed with the Rocky franchise I’ve never really followed boxing, but I do like learning about talented individuals that are at the peak of their powers. The Fight details the events of the infamous Rumble in the […]
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What Are You Reading? April 2021
Well, I’m getting through things quicker than I’d anticipated, however, I’m still struggling through that Final Fantasy I, II, III: Memory of Heroes from Takashi Umemura. It’s a strange book, I’m still on Final Fantasy II and it’s really dragging. These aren’t complicated plots, certainly nothing on what comes from the series later, but the tales […]
True Grit – Charles Portis
Close Encounters Books Without Pictures returns! and it’s not A Song of Ice and Fire related! This month we read through Charles Portis’ “True Grit”, a book from a genre I have no experience of reading. First impressions were that it would be an “easy” book to read, coming off the back of George RR […]
What Are You Reading? March 2021
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Spy X Family – Tatsuya Endo
Like alot of these recent Manga reviews that I’ve been featuring here on Bar Harukiya, I’ve gone into Spy X Family completely blind, I had no expectations going on and had no idea what I was letting myself in for. So that I’ve come out the otherside feeling really rather confused is, in my opinion, […]
Dreamcast: Year One – Andrew J Dickinson
It’s no secret that I’m a big fan of SEGA’s final home console, in fact, I still have my Dreamcast set up (alongside my PS2, PS3, PS4 and Xbox One), it played a massive part in my teens. I still remember buying it from Gamestation in Nottingham (the one near the old Odeon cinema, that […]
Why are we still talking about comics as a genre?
A few weeks back I happened across a typical lockdown/buzzfeed style article, wherein the author discusses a list of things that popular opinion dictactes you should check out. In this the author lists five Graphic Novels that they believe everyone should read (Watchmen, Maus, Ghost World, Jimmy Corrigan the Smartest Kid in the World, Fun […]