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SF and fantasy fiction fan. Lost my dad and sister to cancer so want to support this cause

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Love is an ass

A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare

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As I’m heading to London tomorrow to see this performed in the open air I decided a read of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream was in order. It’s also exactly the right time of year to read or see this play as the lazy, long, days of summer are a defining characteristic of this story. This is a story of star-crossed lovers, jealousy, and mistaken identity tangled up in the ongoing games of immortal fairies. Hermia is being forced to marry Demetrius (who loves her) but Hermia is in love with Lysander. Also tangled here is Helena who still love […]

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7/10/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:10 |

A trip back to childhood

Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome

Swallowdale by Arthur Ransome

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For me, some of my favourite books are those that remind me of a time or place. And so it was that when I went on holiday to the Lake District I decided I wanted to reread books in the Swallows and Amazons series – specifically the original book and it’s sequel Swallowdale. I first read this series starting at the age of about eight and they have stuck with me ever since for their depiction of childhood adventure The books follow the adventures of children in the early 1900s. In these novels we follow the Walker children – John, […]

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7/1/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:9 |

New guy, same weird problems

The October Man by Ben Aaronovitch

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Ben Aaronovitch takes a detour from London in his latest urban fantasy novella, but doesn’t really go too far afield. In The October Man we take a break from the adventures of Peter Grant in London to see what is happening elsewhere in the world of magical policing. We arrive in Germany to enjoy an adventure with Peter’s counterpart Tobias (Tobi) Winter, another young copper who turned out to have a bit of a gift with magic. Tobi is assigned to work a case in Trier where a man has died in weird circumstances – his body consumed by the […]

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6/28/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:7 |

Assassins, Templars, and Gods: It’s confusing around here…

Assassin's Creed Uprising Volume 1: Common Ground by Alex Paknadel, Dan Watters, Jose Holder

Assassin's Creed Uprising Volume 2: Inflection Point by Alex Paknadel, Dan Watters, Jose Holder

Assassin's Creed Uprising Volume 3: Finale by Alex Paknadel, Dan Watters, Jose Holder

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Assassin’s Creed was the reason I bought a PS3, and since then I have played every game (only failing to complete Assassin’s Creed 3 because it was irritating). What I didn’t do though was consume any of the other media relating to the games – not the books, nor the comics. But in playing the most recent game – Odyssey – an email chain I read through as the character Layla Hassan was intriguing and made me pick up the 3 volumes of Assassin’s Creed Uprising because it turns out they tied up a long running story thread outside of […]

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4/26/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:6 |

Rendezvous with a classic SF novel

Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C Clarke

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I haven’t been great about keeping up with reading this year, bouncing between a number of different books and struggling to finish them. So I focused on something small and classic to see if that would give me a reading kick-start. I picked Rendezvous with Rama because I haven’t actually read it before even though I grew up in a household full of classic SF thanks to my parent’s taste in books, and also the stories about the comet Oumuamua were still in my head. Rama is for the most part a hard SF novel set in the near-to-mid future. […]

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4/3/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:3 |

Did anyone think to check the building for personifications of Roman Gods

Lies Sleeping by Ben Aaronovitch

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Modern day London: home to a vibrant mix of cultures, faiths, and hipster coffee shops. And, in Ben Aaronovitch’s Rivers of London series, also home to gods and goddesses, the fae, ghosts of past London, and the terrifying spirit of Mr Punch from the Punch & Judy puppet show. Really it’s not surprising that the Met Police need their own magic division to cope with a city where any building could embody the spirit of a 2500 year old anglo-roman who got worshipped as a god and a vengeful magic practitioner wants to sacrifice them to change reality and make […]

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1/14/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:2 |

Twas the night before Hogswatch

Hogfather by Terry Pratchett

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It’s the night before Hogswatch and the Hogfather is missing. Without him delivering presents the little children will lose their belief and without it the sun will not come up. This calls for the intervention of one man – Death (well… one anthropomorphic personification anyway) – to masquerade as the Hogfather and help restore faith that the light will return. Yes, it’s a Discworld novel, buried midway through the series and featuring everybody’s favourite Grim Reaper. We’re also reunited with his grand-daughter Susan (currently acting as a governess and desperately trying not to turn into Mary Poppins), and the old […]

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1/10/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:1 |

The Belgariad: Not all tropes are bad

The Belgariad by David Eddings

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The Belgariad is a series of five books written by David Eddings starting with Pawn of Prophecy in 1982. I discovered the first in the summer of 1985 as an 12 year old on my last day of vacation and by the time I was home the next day I’d already finished it. This included reading in a car and feeling sick as a result but I couldn’t bring myself to put the book down. Luckily the whole series was out by then so I rapidly bought the rest of the books and finished the series for the first time. […]

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