Picture the scene… thousands of fans scream at the top of their lungs as their favourite band strolls onto the stage, the cheering continues as the band loosen up. The axeman casually taps his fingers on the neck of his prized possession, the frontman struts around whipping the crowd into an expectant frenzy and the…
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Whatever you do, don’t read this book, I mean it, don’t do it. Unless you’ve already seen the play of course, then you can read it all you like. To read it before though, that would be an exercise of self-ruination, you’ll be cutting your nose off to spite your face. All you will have…
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As the Tomeopathy website has developed over the last couple of months, it’s struck me that it would be nice to feature an alternative voice, a second opinion, a Yang to my Ying. What’s required is a contrast, someone or something at the opposite end of the age/gender/personality spectrum to Tomeopathy. As luck would have…
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Children of Blood and Bone is Tomi Adeyemi’s debut novel, released earlier this year. It’s kind of a big deal, critically lauded, sequel in the pipeline, huge film rights deal, etcetera, etcetera. A lot of the praise I’ve seen relates to its use of West African mythology and the manner in which it handles difficult…
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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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The shortlist for the 2018 Man Booker prize, the fiftieth edition no less, was announced on Thursday. Six books have been plucked from the longlist, which itself is selected from all the novels written in English and released in the UK during 2018, a pretty large field one imagines. That shortlist: Everything Under; The Long…
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