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True Grit – Charles Portis

31/03/202129/03/2021 Duane Weatherall Leave a comment

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 […]

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What Are You Reading? March 2021

03/03/202102/03/2021 Duane Weatherall Leave a comment

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 […]

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Lord of Light – Roger Zelazny

07/10/202007/10/2020 Duane Weatherall Leave a comment

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 […]

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A Feast For Crows – George R R Martin

15/04/202019/04/2020 Duane Weatherall 3 Comments

As mentioned in my Asterix post, Book Club is on hiatus at the moment until things begin to look brighter here in the UK and it’s safer to meet as a group and socialise again. That being said, I’m still actually playing catch up from February when things were tough for me personally (I still […]

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Asterix in Britain – René Goscinny & Albert Uderzo

01/04/202019/04/2020 Duane Weatherall 1 Comment

When Close Encounters posted on the Books With Pictures Facebook group page that we were going to be reading an Asterix book, I’m not going to lie, I had two thoughts, the first was “but isn’t that a kids book”, then it was “wow, I’ve not read one of those since Year 8” and it […]

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We3 – Grant Morrison, Frank Quitely

22/01/202019/04/2020 Duane Weatherall

This month’s Books WITH Pictures pick was We3 by Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely through Vertigo. It’s a book I’ll honestly admit I’ve never even heard of so my expectations going in were all over the place, especially as I flicked through it on the bus home before I sat down to read through it […]

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I Am Legend – Richard Matheson

06/12/201906/12/2019 Duane Weatherall 3 Comments

Novembers “Books Without Pictures” book was I Am Legend by Richard Matheson. I originally read this book years ago, not long before the Will Smith movie, so its been I’ve enjoyed going back to it, particularly as I’d somehow managed to blur the lines between some of the events of the book and the film, […]

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A Storm of Swords 1: Steel and Snow – George R R Martin

06/11/201920/04/2020 Duane Weatherall 1 Comment

It’s that time of the month again, first Wednesday of the month means Book Club update and we’re back to the A Game of Thrones series. This month I’ve been reading A Storm of Swords 1: Steel and Snow, which is actually the first part of the much bigger original release of A Storm of […]

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The Lies of Locke Lamora – Scott Lynch

02/10/201920/04/2020 Duane Weatherall 2 Comments

Book Club get together week again and for September we had been reading “The Lies of Locke Lamora” by Scott Lynch. “The Lies of Locke Lamora” is about an orphan who becomes a thief in a city where certain rules are in place, the key one for this tale is the “Secret Peace” whereby the […]

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A Clash of Kings – George R. R. Martin

04/09/201920/04/2020 Duane Weatherall 2 Comments

First Wednesday of the month means book club meeting time! For our September meet, so we read this through August, we covered the second of George R. R. Martin’s A Game of Thrones series, A Clash of Kings. I’m going to start by saying that I enjoyed this one more than the first book in […]

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