Sundays with Sherlock – The Hound of the Baskervilles – Conan Doyle

Published: August 1901 Publisher: Penguin Pages: 224 Serie: Sherlock Holmes # 5 Format Read: Audible Blurp: The death, quite suddenly, of Sir Charles Baskerville in mysterious circumstances is the trigger for one of the most extraordinary cases ever to challenge the brilliant analytical mind of Sherlock Holmes. As rumors of a legendary hound said to […]

Metal Monday – Diva Dance from Fifth Element

Welcome to another Metal Monday, for today’s post I decided to do something different. Seeing as I finished Fulgrim last week and the fact that it contained some scenes which seemed to be otherworldly and operatic I had the scene of today’s vid playing in my head as it evolved into something completely different… Fifth Element […]

Fulgrim – Graham McNeill

Published: 31 July 2007 Publisher: Black Library Pages: 512 Series: Horus Heresy #5 Format Read: Physical Copy Blurp: Under the command of the newly appointed Warmaster Horus, the Great Crusade continues. Fulgrim, Primarch of the Emperor’s Children, leads his warriors into battle against a vile alien foe, unaware of the darker forces that have already […]

My First New Books for 2020…

As I described in a previous post about books I was thinking of getting last year. The first one has just arrived in the mail… Cadia Stands is a book I need to read before reading the second one in the series by the same author. I got Book 2 from Net Galley last year and […]

Metro 2034 – Dmitry Glukhovsky

Published: 16 March 2009 Publisher: Gollancz Pages: 311 Series: Metro #2 Format Read: Physical Copy Blurp: It’s the year 2034. After a devastating war much of the world lies in ruins. Moscow is a ghost town. A few survivors retreated into the depths of the underground network to build a new civilization. They found only […]

Sundays with Sherlock: The Sign Of Four

Published: February 1890 Publisher: Penguin Classics Pages: 129 Series: Sherlock Holmes #1 Format Read: Audible Blurp: (copied from Good Reads) First published in 1890, the second of Sir Arthur Conan-Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories, The Sign of the Four is a classic of detective fiction and a forerunner of this now-ubiquitous genre. The story has everything […]

The Blinding Knife – Brent Weeks

Published: 11 September 2012 Publisher: Orbit Pages: 671 Series: Lightbringer Book 2 Format Read: Audible/ Physical copy Blurp: Gavin Guile is dying. He’d thought he had five years left—now he has less than one. With fifty thousand refugees, a bastard son, and an ex-fiancée who may have learned his darkest secret, Gavin has problems on […]

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