Ended.
It’s 1:23pm, I’m in my office, and I’ve just finished Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. It’s good. 🙂 Continue reading Ended.
Category: Books
I’m in my office…
It’s Saturday morning, just before 10am. I’m in my office, and I have Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows in front of me. 🙂 Continue reading I’m in my office…
A few new DVD purchases
This week, I’ve bought a few DVDs… Around the World in 80 Days, starring David Niven. It’s a classic “cameo” film, in which the object of the film, it seems, is to see how many famous actors you can get into it at once. Niven won the Oscar for this film, probably as a tribute to all his other films… Citizen Kane, starring Mr Welles. … Continue reading A few new DVD purchases
Brust reads Order of the Stick!
Ok, this may sound trivial, but I’ve just discovered that my favourite living fantasy author, Steven Brust, reads Order of the Stick and gets distracted when Rich Burlew doesn’t update it promptly. That’s cool! Also cool is that he plays Neverwinter Nights, and that hewrites cool books. (Cool books being ones I really enjoy reading; see Brust’s Theory of Coolness). Favourite dead author? Roger Zelazny, … Continue reading Brust reads Order of the Stick!
Ysabel
The other book I picked up recently was Ysabel, by Guy Gavriel Kay. I haven’t written much about what I read, but Kay is one of my all-time favourite writers. Nearly all of his books are classics of the fantasy genre. Well, in my opinion they are. 🙂 Ysabel is a more subdued work than the regular style of Kay’s work, but very charming indeed. … Continue reading Ysabel
Renegade’s Magic
I’ve just finished reading Renegade’s Magic, the final book of Robin Hobb’s Soldier’s Son trilogy. I found it somewhat disappointing. As with some of her other books (final of the Assassin trilogy as well), Hobb has the main character too much a spectator to events. Well, that’s not true: Navarre spends a lot of the book as being the main protagonist of all the events, … Continue reading Renegade’s Magic
The Harlequin
Apart from seeing Othello, the other thing I did in Melbourne last weekend was visit Mind Games and Minotaur Books. This was mostly depressing, since I didn’t actually have much money (I got paid yesterday). I had enough for one purchase… that ended up being the new Laurell K. Hamilton book, The Harlequin. And I bought it from Angus & Robertson since they were selling … Continue reading The Harlequin
Othello – Bell Shakespeare Company
I went to see the Bell Shakespeare Company’s production of Othello on the weekend. I generally enjoy Bell’s productions of plays, most of which I’ve seen when the company has toured Ballarat. Travelling down to Melbourne to watch it was a first for me. Unfortunately, the experience was not a good one. The trouble can be laid at the feet of the lead actors, who, … Continue reading Othello – Bell Shakespeare Company