Symbiont by Mira Grant
Parasitology #2 Part of my Sci Fi Experience 2015 In Parasite we met Sal Mitchell, or Sally as she doesn’t like to be called. She had been in a car crash,...
30 December 2014
Those who hunt the night by Barbara Hambly
A James Asher book #1, also published as Immortal Blood James Asher, retired spy and scholar, comes home one day to find a vampire in his house. A vampire who has...
21 December 2014
The Hobbit : the battle of the five armies [based on the book] by J.R.R. Tolkien dir. by Peter Jackson
Bilbo and the dwarves have woken the dragon, and Smaug awake is something you don’t want to encounter. As the film begins he is busy destroying Laketown and burning its inhabitants....
14 December 2014
The Winter Long by Seanan McGuire
An October Daye novel: #8 October Daye has come a long way since Simon Torquill transformed her into a fish. She’s uncovered a lot about who she is, who her real...
6 December 2014
The Seventh Bride by T. Kingfisher
Rhea is a miller’s daughter. She is fifteen. And she is engaged. Her betrothed is a lord, and she had never met him before he gave her is ring to wear....
29 November 2014
Interstellar dir. by Christopher Nolan
Some time in the near future a blight hits earth. At first it hits the wheat and then spreads to other crops. The whole world turns its attention to farming, to...
11 November 2014
Spirit Gate by Kate Elliott
Crossroads #1 Once The Hundred was a place of peace and safety. The Guardians delivered justice and the reeves flew in answer to them. But no one has seen the Guardians...
10 November 2014
The Babadook dir. by Jennifer Kent
Samuel’s father died driving his mother to the hospital the day Samuel was born. Ever since it has just been Samuel (Noah Wiseman) and Amelia (Essie Davis). And life isn’t easy....
9 November 2014
The five jars by M. R. James
Available free from Gutenberg This novel takes the form of a letter from our nameless narrator to Jane, he wants to explain how it is that he was talking to owls,...
4 November 2014
The Magician’s Nephew by C. S. Lewis
The Chronicles of Narnia : book one (or six, depending on whether you go by Narnian history or publication date) In the summer of 1900 Digory and Polly meet. Digory has...
3 November 2014
Hawkeye : my life as a weapon by Matt Fraction
The first five issues of the Hawkeye series together with issue #6 of Young Avengers. This is the story of what Hawkeye does when he’s not Avenging1 . Clint Barton battles...
1 November 2014
The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater
First read in August 2012, reread Oct 2014 as part of this year’s RIP reading1 . Near the village of Thisby on the island of Skarmouth lives Puck Connolly her two...
29 October 2014
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