Greetings, fabled followers, craven cultists, grimoire gnomes and blog butterflies! The first twelfth of 2020 is behind us and the eternal question must be asked: What the heck happened last month? Here, at the Reliquary, not too much. Books were read, old posts revisited, humans hunted for spo--don't know where that came from, to tell... Continue Reading →
I am drunk on words. https://giphy.com/gifs/xiSNlqXMxsMdG https://images-eu.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51qFQs1lfAL.jpg I've read quite a lot this past week. After finishing Sanderson's Starsight, whose review you can find here (Spoilers, I thought it was beautiful), I moved onto listening to an old favourite, one of the very first books I ever wrote a teeny, tiny review for. The book... Continue Reading →
Or: How many different ways can I name my reader's diary? These past few days, I had the pleasure of finishing several novels and beginning several more, as well as reading another short story by the brilliant Ursula Le Guin. A Dangerous Fortune by Ken Follett This is my second proper piece of historical fiction... Continue Reading →
Today, I woke up and listened, for a little over three hours, to George Orwell's Animal Farm. I should do a double feature of China Mieville's October and this book -- one shows the build-up to the Russian revolution, and the other uses allegory with animals to illustrate how easily revolution turns to something much... Continue Reading →
Well, well, have I been a busy bookworm in those short moments of freedom before my last terrible, bad, no-good exam. This week provided gallons in terms of both entertainment and value thanks to two excellent audiobooks -- the first is October, authored by China Mieville. Despite the name, this novel is not the New... Continue Reading →
I thought I'd write a wee diary. Not the 'Dear Diary, a madwoman in the bus told me they were listening in through my headphones!' kind, but a journal about what I read on a day-to-day basis. The sort of content I can put on my blog when I don't have enough time to put the work necessary... Continue Reading →
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