Book Review: Mockingjay
Project 2012: Day 144 Look, if you’ve reached this stage, the end of “Catching Fire,” you’re going to read this book. Catching Fire didn’t conclude as a story in it’s own right, and on the Kindle I had...
View ArticleBook Review: Brainrush
Project 2012: Day 151 Brainrush is another of my experiments to find new authors, not to mention cheap reads, on the Kindle. I think the book cost all of $3. Of course for that price, you don’t mind a...
View ArticleBook Review: The Enemy of my Enemy (Brainrush 2)
Project 2012: Day 158 Well if Brainrush was a cheap, shallow, implausible, yet exciting read; Brainrush 2 takes it a step further. We have the villains from the previous book. They’ve progressed,...
View ArticleBook Review: Harlequin
Project 2012: Day 179 I’ve just read this trilogy by Bernard Cornwell, one of my favourite authors. Cornwell has a great ability to take historic scenarios (battles) and bring them to life through one...
View ArticleBook Review: Vagabond
Project 2012: Day 186 We rejoin Thomas of Hookton, and his love, Sir Guillame d’Evecque’s bastard daughter, North England. Just south of Scotland. Vagabond, may be my favourite of the Trilogy. The...
View ArticleBook Review: Heretic
Project 2012: Day 193 This is 3rd in the Grail Quest instalment, and a fitting end to the series. As with most trilogies, if you’ve gotten this far, chances are you’re going to read the conclusion to...
View ArticleBook Review: A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire – Book 1)
Project 2012: Day 298 It was my daughters that finally got me to start reading this series by George R R Martin. Now made famous by the TV Series. I haven’t watched the series, and rather suspect I...
View ArticleBook Review: A Clash of Kings (A Song of Fire & Ice Book 2)
Project 2012: Day 305 This is the second instalment in the George R.R. Martin epic fantasy tale. And as with the first book, is a real page turner. We meet more characters in this work, Sam Tarly, the...
View ArticleBook Review: A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 3)
Project 2012: Day 312 Can this series get any more violent? As it turns out, yes! This was one of those books I downloaded (thanks to a birthday gift from my girls and good friend Heinrich) onto the...
View ArticleBook Review: Understanding Other People: The Five Secrets to Human Behaviour
Project 2012: Day 347 Anyone who reads my blog knows that understanding people is a passion of mine. So when Amazon offers one of the latest books in that vein, I find it almost impossible to resist....
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