Omg. Omg. Omg. So adorable. Barraryar is the first book I’ve read that is a sequel to one from the list. The first book in the series was Shards of Honour which as I said was friggin’ adorkable. THE ADORKABLENESS CONTINUES. The story starts from right after the end of the last book. Aral and … Continue reading
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Comics round up #3
Mouse Guard: Legends of the Guard volume 2 I realise I haven’t read volume 1 yet but I can catch up. I love Mouse Guard and this volume is beautiful. It has stories from various writers and artists (including one of my favourites, Stan Sakai) all woven together in the narrative of patrons of a … Continue reading
Book review: Journey to the Centre of the Earth
I think this is the first Jules Verne I’ve ever read. It was kind of laughably hilarious and completely improbable. So, plotwise it does what it says on the tin. A German professor finds a 16th century manuscript with a 12th century note that tells you the entrance the centre of the earth. The Professor … Continue reading
Book review: Anathem
I do not even know where to begin with this book. Okay, I do. With an editor. Holy shit. Long. So long. So overly and pointlessly long. Okay, maybe not. But LONG. It started slow, first 200 pages or so, with me going: what is the plot. What is going on. I do not understand. … Continue reading
My 22 year old self just squee’d
Here follows a really quite geeky post. When I was an undergraduate, I absolutely loved studying the Reformation and Early Modern German history. I had to take a European history course in my second year and my professor just sold it to me without even trying. So hooked. Anyway, he still gave me the best … Continue reading
Book review: Animal Farm
Don’t ask me why this appears on the list but it does. Surely it belongs as polemic or some such. So everyone must know that this is an allegory of the events in Russia under the Soviet Union, right? There’s not much to say there really. Good intentions gone really fucking awry. So impressions – … Continue reading
All the Peace of Westphalia action
Yesterday we had a double dose of Peace of Westphalia tourism – we were in Münster as mentioned yesterday but we also made a stop in Osnabrück. The Peace of Westphalia was made up of several treaties 1 – The Treaty of Münster which ended the 80 years war between the Dutch Republic and Spain … Continue reading
Book review: Soon I will be Invincible
I can’t seem to bring myself to read another thing from the list lately. Most of them just seem too long and not that interesting. So I took a detour and read Soon I will Be Invincible by Austin Grossman. I’m not sure how or why I bought it but it existed on my Nexus … Continue reading
Let’s watch all the things
I don’t know what has come over me this year. I’ve lived in London for almost 8 years now and I have done, by all accounts, a lot of things. I’ve been on the London Eye, climbed up Big Ben, Tower of London, Monument, you name it. Lots of museums and things, moreso, than the … Continue reading
Comics round up #2
Hawkeye: Little hits Matt Fraction, David Aja I loved the trade paperback of Hawkeye: My life as a weapon and I loved this. Clint just gets into ALL the trouble – with gangsters, with his friends, with his girlfriend, with the Avengers. It’s complex but also astoundingly funny. There is one panel where he just … Continue reading
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