Tomeopathy is shallow, many is the time I’ve bought a book purely on the back of a nice cover, as a method of choosing reading material it’s not fool proof. Sometimes though, things turn out ok and you don’t spend too much time beating yourself up for wasting money. The day I bought Dreamwalker was…
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After perusing through my newly created book pile, it became clear that I has been sitting on a few books for quite a while, worse still there were some complete collections in there in serious need of my attention. At a glance, it was clear that the highest concentrations of unread books resided under the…
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Terry Pratchett’s Discworld Novels, pretty good eh? I started reading them when I picked up Pyramids as a 12 or 13 year old (circa 1991/92). I loved the wry sense of humour and imagination of that book, after reading it I decided it would be sensible to go back to the beginning of the series…
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Following a brief moment of respite in children’s literature, I’ve thrown myself back into the Malazan Book of the Fallen. I thought that having waded through the first three quarters of book one, ‘Gardens of the Moon’, wondering who everyone was, what the hell was happening, and whether or not to bother struggling to the…
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Apologies to all, I’m wa-aaay behind on writing reviews of books I read weeks ago, actually I’m behind on reading books too. My timelines for new recommended reading lists and thoughts about previously read books that I put up shortly after the turn of the year are completely shot as well. Turns out that I’m…
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Some books follow a plot with a trajectory as predictable as an arrow, see ‘Kings of the Wyld’ (this comment isn’t meant to be dismissive, there’s a lot of fun to be had in knowing what’s going to happen but enjoying getting there, They made 1026* episodes of Columbo for exactly this reason). Some books…
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I found a copy of ‘The Crooked Sixpence’ loitering on the shelf a few weeks ago, despite that fact that Tomeopathy Jr. had read it previously, and hadn’t provided a glowing recommendation (to be fair a scathing dismissal of all things Uncommon was also not sitting in my in tray (Tomeopathy Jr. can generally be…
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One of Tomeopathy’s belated New Year commitments was to read and report on more independently published fantasy, to that end I recently picked up the first book in ‘Brian Helsing: The World’s Unlikeliest Vampire Killer: Mission #1: Just Try Not to Die’ by Gareth K Pengelly, an urban-ish, Cornwall set, supernatural fantasy series. Hands up…
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A couple of weeks ago I waxed lyrical about the Brackenford Cycle series, the catalyst for that outpouring of love was the release of book number four in the series, Grindhelm’s Key. Tomeopathy always worries about the release of a new book in a cherished series, what if it doesn’t live up to the standards…
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