A Storm of Swords: Part 2 Blood and Gold
If you are a big reader you may well read A Storm of Swords as one book. However, if you are like me, reading a book longer than Anna Karenina is no small undertaking. To make it easier I read Part 1...
View ArticleA Feast For Crows (Part One)
When reading A Song of Ice and Fire you soon get into the George R. R. Martin routine. Nothing happens for ages and then loads of people die. The first book of A Feast for Crows follows a similar vein...
View ArticleA Feast For Crows (Part Two)
As I mentioned in my post about part one most A Song of Ice and Fire novels follow a predictable format of not a lot happening then a bunch of people dying. Again in part two though, there were not...
View ArticleA Dance with Dragons (Part One)
A Dance with Dragons is the 5th novel in George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series. I am in two minds about it. Some of it, especially at the start is just confusing. Sam is back at The Wall...
View ArticleThe Shepherd’s Crown
So this is it then, the final Pratchett novel. Worse, it’s a Tiffany Aching novel. Pratchett comes out swinging for his final work. Perhaps it was his last chance to do something big, or perhaps he was...
View ArticleThe Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul is a novel by Douglas Adams. It is the second book in his Dirk Gently series. I tried reading the novel a few decades ago and never got very far, so it was nice to...
View ArticleA Dance with Dragons (Part Two)
The second half of A Dance with Dragons from George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire has been a long time coming. I use Audible for a lot of my function, including this, and to say Audible had...
View ArticleTour de France 2018
It’s not been a strong start to the season for me. Sure, I knocked out my first metric tonne at the Flat n Fast 100, but at grand tour level, my performance has been lacking. My fantasy Giro team put...
View ArticleLa Vuelta 2018
Vuelta a España is one of the four “grand tours” of cycling (three if you don’t count Tour de Yorkshire). It takes place each year in August/September and winds its way primarily through the...
View ArticleBlood of Elves
Blood of Elves is a fantasy fiction book by Andrzej Sapkowski. It is the first in the Witcher series and having a bunch of Audible credits I took a punt and bought the first three. I did not pay off...
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