I picked up the sign in Washington’s National Archive. I think it suits me. And I’ve just been called an addict by a certain young novelist (whose book is here somewhere) but I think that’s a little strong don’t you? With the pom-pon thing in mind and it being the start-ish of the second part [...]
Posts under ‘Lists’
Personal: Top Five Books from July to December 2010
Now lists are always odd things to make and some can be more controversial than others… but I’ve been looking at the new catalogues from a lot of UK publishers wondering what is going to be exciting to read. And there are a lot of exciting books. There are books that I know I want [...]
Lists/Awards: British Fantasy Awards 2010 – Best Novel
Here is the British Fantasy Awards 2010 longlist. Everything here has been recommended by a BFS or FantasyCon member I’m narrowing my focus on the novels as usual as it’s what I know more about but it still makes for interesting reading. I’ve marked books I’ve read in italics and books that would be high [...]
List: Unbound! & NextRead’s Top 50 SFF Books
SFX released a list of the top 25 SFF books and we thought it was lame. We decided to put our money where our mouths are and come up with our own list. Both of us contributed 25 books to this list. We agreed to only have one book by each author. This may be [...]
List: Five Books I Love
I’ve just done this top five quiz on Facebook and trying to get it done quickly I choose five books I love off the top of my head. Well not quite the books off the top of my head but books that for some reason have stuck with me and here they are: [...]
‘Your Blog is Fabulous!’
I’m really shocked and delighted to be nominated for the "Your Blog is Fabulous!" Award by both Fantasy Cafe and Dark Wolf’s Fantasy Book Reviews. Thank you both! I’m chuffed. EDIT: I missed the nomination off Liz who does My Favourite Books!!! How’s I miss that! Thank you Liz!! I have to point [...]
Comment: Guardian's Science Fiction & Fantasy Novels Everyone Must Read: The Meme
Nethspace points me to SF Signal and the guardian’s SFF contribution to 1000 novels everyone must read. And seeing that it’s a meme I thought I’d go through the list. KEY:Read and Own but Unread 1. Douglas Adams: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (1979) 2. Brian W Aldiss: Non-Stop (1958) 3. Isaac Asimov: [...]