Mount TBR – August
I did so well this month, only added 5 books, and I’ve already read one! Go me. Graudin, Ryan – Wolf by wolf : SF Signal (Kristin Centorcelli) describes it as...
17 August 2015
The Gift dir. by Joel Edgerton
Simon (Jason Bateman) and Robyn(Rebecca Hall) have just moved and are out shopping when they bump into Gordo(Joel Edgerton), an old friend of Simon’s. He visits their new home, bringing a...
16 August 2015
Woof – wip
This one isn’t finished yet, but I can’t give up my weekly resolution on week 2. That would just be wrong.
12 August 2015
The Blue Place by Nicola Griffith
When you read that a series of books are “brilliant and heartbreaking and made of awesome sauce and everybody should read them but go into them blind or you won’t get...
10 August 2015
Hounded by Kevin Hearne
Book 1 in the Iron Druid Chronicles Atticus O’Sullivan is not what he appears to be. He is not 21 years old. He is not American. His name isn’t even Atticus,...
8 August 2015
The Empire Ascendant by Kameron Hurley
The Worldbreaker Saga # 2. Received free from Netgalley, this book will be published in October. I’m stealing the description from netgalley because I hate recapping follow up books in a...
5 August 2015
Moo!
I’m trying to get back into drawing stuff every now and then. For a few months I’ve been telling myself that I really should try one of those daily art prompts,...
4 August 2015
The Glad Hosts by Rebecca Campbell
Read the short story online at Lackington’s and then the discussion on metafilter. Mai is a colonist on Shanti, entranced with this alien world and its permanent spring. Although it took...
3 August 2015
End of Watch dir. by David Ayer
The opening voice-over to this film was almost enough to make me turn if off straight away, but then I would have had to find something else to watch, so I...
2 August 2015
Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation dir. by Christopher McQuarrie
Ethan Hunt and his team from MI4, apart from Paula Patton’s Jane character1 have been off hunting down the Syndicate, an evil anti-IMF so to speak. But the CIA don’t believe...
2 August 2015
The law of becoming by Kate Elliott
The fourth novel of the Jaran The closer I got to the end of this book the slower I found myself reading. I just didn’t want it to end. First of...
25 July 2015
Ant-man dir. by Peyton Reed
Sometimes I have to wonder why, exactly, a story has to be told. Why this particular story, with this articular character. Because watching Ant-man the overwhelming feeling I had was “meh”...
23 July 2015