Published: Publisher: Pages: Format Read: Blur: Set during the events of all four Alien™ films, sending the Marines to alien worlds, to derelict space settlements, and into the nests of the universe’s most dangerous monsters, these adventures are guaranteed to send the blood racing— One way or another. When the Colonial Marines set out after […]
Read more "Aliens: Bug Hunt – Various"Welcome to another Metal Monday fellow followers. I have today a song that just oozes Industrial Metal. It also comes with some pretty hard hitting lyrics, but pretty much sums up exactly what I feel like and have been feeling for a while now. Very negative that is. I just do not know what 2020 […]
Read more "Metal Monday – N.I.N – The Wretched"Published: 1 September 2020 (Original was in 1908) Publisher: Manga Classics Inc Pages: 308 Format Read: Pocket Book App on I-phone Blurp: Siblings Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert were planning to adopt an orphaned boy to help out around their farm, Green Gables – instead, they got Anne Shirley. A plucky redheaded girl with a vibrant […]
Read more "Manga Classics: Anne of Green Gables – L.M Montgomery"Published: 1915Publisher: N/APages: 98Format Read: Audible Blurp: This is the story of a young man who, transformed overnight into a giant beetle-like insect, becomes an object of disgrace to his family, an outsider in his own home, a quintessentially alienated man. A harrowing—though absurdly comic—meditation on human feelings of inadequacy, guilt, and isolation, The Metamorphosis has taken […]
Read more "Metamorphosis – Frans Kafka"Welcome to another Metal Monday everyone. For today and as part of my Industrial Metal themed month I have quite a short but very significant song and band. A band I have been listening to from the early 2000’s. For those not familiar with the term industrial metal, Wiki states: Industrial metal is the fusion […]
Read more "Metal Monday – Static X- Hollow"Published: 1 January 2008Publisher: Black LibraryPages: 416Series: Horus Heresy Book 8Format Read: Physical Copy Blurp: Now that news of Horus’s treachery is in the open, a time of testing has come. Some Legions have already declared their allegiance to the Warmaster, while the loyalty of others lies firmly with the Emperor. As Horus deploys his […]
Read more "Battle for the Abyss – Ben Counter"I have been fortunate enough to have been given a few new books thanks to Black Library and Net Galley. Even though my back log of books for review far exceeds the amount of reading I can pull of in a short time, I still requested as I just cannot seem to be able to […]
Read more "The Heresy Grows…"Published: 5 June 2012Publisher: Tor BooksPages: 320Series: Stand AloneFormat Read: Audible Blurp: Ensign Andrew Dahl has just been assigned to the Universal Union Capital Ship Intrepid, flagship of the Universal Union since the year 2456. It’s a prestige posting, and Andrew is thrilled all the more to be assigned to the ship’s Xenobiology laboratory. Life couldn’t […]
Read more "Redshirts – John Scalzi"Please allow me to introduce to you all my Ouma (for those not versed in Afrikaans ouma is granny or directly translated: old mom), her name is Joyce and I love her a lot. Ouma is like any granny should be and I bet we could get into a fist fight as to whose gran […]
Read more "(re)Joyce!!!!!"Welcome to Metal Monday. I have a bit of a weird one today, by a band whose name I have been familiar with but never got into in the past. I was scrolling down my Youtube feed and got recommend a song by them taken from the album “Throes of Joy in the Jaws of […]
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