Since starting this website, I’ve navigated the pages of four books, I’ve enjoyed each of them and I’m now worrying that I’m only writing positive reviews. This is unfortunate as I’m looking forward to writing a coruscating take down of a mediocre novel. Instead I’ve had to direct my ire at sycophantic prize giving’s and…
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I’ve started writing this twice and it’s morphed into other blog entries about alternative topics, both related obliquely but not directly to my enjoyment of this book, both became too long, and both had more to do with other topics and less to do with The Name of the Wind. So before I get distracted…
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Tomeopathy has a confession to make, I abuse high street bookshops. I’m not talking about independent shops but the large chains, in fact let’s be honest Waterstones, WH Smiths and The Works entirely fail to create the correct ambiance for this particular indulgence. How do I do it? I abuse their facilities, I spend time…
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In the course of piecing this website together one of the jobs I’ve been busy with is creating collages of covers to illustrate the author pages, this has triggered a relapse of OCD, Outrage at Cover Design changes. Upon migrating from beautiful, space consuming paper to practical, minimal electric ink I barely see the covers…
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Where Joe Abercrombie is concerned, it seems that I may have been a little late to the party. I also snuck over the back fence, by reading his later trilogy first. Rather than reading The First Law Trilogy when it hit the shelves in 2006 (a full 6 years before the Shattered Sea Trilogy first…
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