Published: 6 January 2011Publisher: Black LibraryPages: 444Series: Horus Heresy #15Format Read: Physical Copy Blurp: The Emperor is enraged. Primarch Magnus the Red of the Thousand Sons Legion has made a terrible mistake that endangers the very safety of Terra. With no other choice, the Emperor charges Leman Russ, Primarch of the Space Wolves, with the […]
Read more "Prospero Burns – Dan Abnett"Last week Friday, Milou and I went on quite a road trip to go look at a pet that we basically already decided was going to come home with us, no matter if we had to break into the sanctuary or if I had to wrestle the caretakers. Milou and I have been wanting to […]
Read more "Ladies and Gentlemen, meet Oi…"Welcome to the first Metal Monday of June. Seeing as we are now in high summer with days going into the 20 degrees Celsius (that is quite warm for The Netherlands) people seem to be more relaxed and happy over all. I have had some great days back at the zoo over weekends and I […]
Read more "Metal Monday – King Buffalo – Burning"Published: 1 October 2009Publisher: SkyhorsePages: 288Series: Stand AloneFormat Read: AudibleDuration: 9h 9mins Blurp: Who would suspect that the same mind that created the most famous literary detective of all time also took on the eternally popular genre of vampires? Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, a contemporary of Bram Stoker, gave us some fascinating works of vampire […]
Read more "Vampire Stories – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle"A short post today. Seeing as I only finished one book from my Reading Plans last month, I will be recycling that exact list and add a few too it… June is season month here by us and in between switching from one job to the other is turning into a bit of a tricky […]
Read more "June 2021 Reading Plans"Phew, May is already passed and I feel like my blog particularly stank in the content department, but then I just looked back and saw I did quite a lot of posts in the first week or two of the month, before going semi cold turkey. Five book reviews went up while I completed 7 […]
Read more "May 2021 – Recap"Welcome to the last Metal Monday for this month. I have a song today that I connected with while struggling through my read through of Prospero Burns. Septic Flesh is not a band I have been listening or given much time to, but each time I hear them my mind just goes into a different […]
Read more "Metal Monday – Septic Flesh – Portrait of a Headless Man"Published: 15 September 1995Publisher: Tor BooksPages: 404 Format Read: AudibleDuration: 12h 15mins Blurp: In 1878, two young stage magicians clash in the dark during the course of a fraudulent séance. From this moment on, their lives become webs of deceit and revelation as they vie to outwit and expose one another. Their rivalry will take them […]
Read more "The Prestige – Christopher Priest"Published: 8 July 2013Publisher: CenturyPages: 304Series: Apocalypse Now Now #1Format Read: AudibleDuration: 10 h 38 mins Blurp: Baxter Zevcenko’s life is pretty sweet. As the 16-year-old kingpin of the Spider, his smut-peddling schoolyard syndicate, he’s making a name for himself as an up-and-coming entrepreneur. Profits are on the rise, the other gangs are staying out […]
Read more "Apocalypse Now Now – Charlie Human"Welcome to another themed Metal Monday. Seeing as I am going through a very tough time in completing a current read that features the Space Wolves, I thought I could share another song with the word Wolf in it. I have been lacking in content these past few weeks and been a bit absent from […]
Read more "Metal Monday – Tribulation – Hour of the Wolf"