I fired up my book bingo generator and here is the card I got. I have a year to work on it, and I think this one will be a bit easier than last year. When I originally rolled this card, I ended up getting a few challenges from my last card. I spun the …
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My 2020 in Books
Time to look at what I read in 2020, and make some plans for 2021. Let's start with my book bingo challenge. I got three bingos and filled all but five tiles. I enjoyed this challenge a lot, and it led me to seek out a range of books I might not have picked up …
Favourite 2020 Books So Far
I've read a lot this year. As of writing, I am five books away from completing my Goodreads 80 book reading challenge and I've filled most of my bingo card. I still have a tiny bit of time left on these challenges, so I'll hold off talking about them for now. In this post, I'm …
Review: Slan – A. E. van Vogt
Title: Slan by A.E. van Vogt Published 1940 Score: 8/10 This is another classic science fiction book that has been sitting on my TBR pile for too long. Slan is one of the classic stories of the Golden Age of Science Fiction. For many years after it's publication, it was seen as one of the …
New Short Story – Six Big Do Nots of Earth Tourism
As I said in an earlier post, I'm not doing NaNoWrMo this year, but I am doing more writing. Now I'm here to share the first fruit of these labours. Wait, that sounded weird. Maybe I've been doing too much writing. Introducing the Six Big Do Nots of Earth Tourism, a flash fiction piece about …
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Ayreon Transitus
Time for a fantasy album review. I started this review last month when I got the album, but I held off on it until I receive my companion comic book. The comic has only just arrived, due to a combination of me ordering late and things taking forever to ship to Australia. But I've read …
Should I do NaNoWrMo This Year?
No. I should not. I will probably die if I push myself to write that much. Besides, I finally got back to my long neglected story about telepathic tree fungi and am ready to write about the fight with the dragon. I don't want to shelve that for a month to do NaNoWrMo. On the …
2020 Book Bingo: Bingo #3 Review
Wow, all but one of the books in this row (Briar Rose) I have already talked about in some way befort. So, yay, quick post full of copy and pasting. I have extended the other reviews a bit, added a few thoughts on the books now that it's been a while since I read them, …
6 Awesome Science Fiction Metal Songs
Time for something a little different. Let's talk about music. I just finished listening to the new Ayreon album Transitus and omg, mind blown. Not going to talk about that just now though, since a tie-in comic book was released alongside this album and I do not yet have my hands on that comic. Not …
Review: Trans Wizard Harriet Porber and the Bad Boy Parasaurolophus by Chuck Tingle
Trans Wizard Harriet Porber and the Bad Boy Parasaurolophus: An Adult Romance Novel by Chuck Tingle Published June 2020 Score: It's by Chuck Tingle This review needs a bit more context than normal. If you've never heard of Chuck Tingle before, then I assume that the title and the cover of this book have left …
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