by Louise | Dec 4, 2012 | fantasy, novel, podcast, review, scrolls
A while ago, shortly after I started using Twitter in any sort of earnest, I fell in with bad company. These people are rude, funny and always online. They read and watch what pleases them, mainly geeky fantasy stuff, and then they write about what they think of it....
by Louise | Jun 23, 2012 | book club, modern, novel, review
Ok, I’m going to come right out and say it – I don’t really like Iain Banks. This is based on a reasonable sampling of his work – I have read Consider Phlebas and The Player of Games, as well as The Crow Road and Espedair Street. I have also read The Wasp Factory...
by Louise | May 20, 2012 | fantasy, novel, review
So today I finished The Wise Man’s Fear by Patrick Rothfuss, the middle book in the Kingkiller chronicle. This makes me sad, because Mr Rothfuss seems to have taken a leaf out of George R R Martin’s (very long, impeccably written but unfeasibly complicated) book and...
by Louise | May 2, 2012 | book club, novel, review
In line with my resolve to blog more often I’m publishing a review of a book I read for a fledgling book club, formed by myself and some friends from work who basically wanted a literary excuse to get together in a pub and laugh a lot. I wrote the review because...
