» by ChrisM October 25th, 2008 at 4:30 am » Comments (4)

It has been a long time since I wrote any book reviews on this site, and there are still a dozen or so titles waiting for their turn. Recently, I ...more »

» by ChrisM April 20th, 2008 at 1:03 pm » Comments (0)

Reading does, in general, expand your mind, help you to think in new directions, and even relax you after a stressful day. Cracked has listed five books that maybe should not ...more »

» by ChrisM March 19th, 2008 at 5:37 am » Comments (0)

Not much to add, I know little about the man's private life, but enjoyed many of his books. Thanks for all your work. more »

» by ChrisM March 14th, 2008 at 8:53 pm » Comments (0)

One of my favourite author, Terry Pratchett has said ""Personally, I'd eat the arse out of a dead mole..." Not a strange attempt at grabbing publicity for his books, but ...more »

» by ChrisM February 20th, 2008 at 9:21 pm » Comments (0)

A fellow forum member over at XDA Developers has been busy writing a program to automatically recognise bar codes from the built in cameras available in some PDAs. The potential ...more »

» by ChrisM February 13th, 2008 at 9:44 am » Comments (0)

Quick explanation for those of you who thought I had given up on posting here, or had no internet access - I am currently still deep in the process of ...more »

» by ChrisM February 6th, 2008 at 4:18 pm » Comments (0)

A recent idea I had for a science fiction book... Inhabitants on a planet, completely unlike our own. Not being carbon or even silicon based, they view energy in a much ...more »

» by ChrisM October 25th, 2007 at 6:20 pm » Comments (15)

I have finally finished the collection of e-books stored on my PDA. However, I know that the book reviews here stalled a long time ago now. I hope to return ...more »

» by ChrisM September 15th, 2007 at 9:23 am » Comments (0)

Things had happened a little differently in Russia, around 1917? Many historians have debated as to the exact order of events around the time of the revolution, and for a ...more »

» by ChrisM August 12th, 2007 at 3:21 am » Comments (0)

It took a while, but all 1100 (or near enough) posts on this blog have now had new (mostly additional) categories assigned to them, where appropriate. If you check the ...more »

» by ChrisM July 17th, 2007 at 1:22 am » Comments (0)

I know, I know, it has been weeks and weeks since I did a book review, and sadly this is not actually going to be a proper one. The reason for ...more »

» by ChrisM June 20th, 2007 at 1:38 am » Comments (0)

Last week I meant to post a picture of Ira's new hair colour. She went to the Salon after work finished, had a cut and then the colouring process finished. Ten ...more »

» by ChrisM June 5th, 2007 at 2:17 am » Comments (0)

A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 1) - George R. R. Martin I went back to the fantasy genre at this point, and really got into ...more »

» by ChrisM June 4th, 2007 at 8:12 pm » Comments (0)

The American department of Homeland Security recently called on the skills of respected SciFi writers to assist them in brain storming on new ways to defeat contraband smugglers, illegal aliens ...more »

» by ChrisM June 2nd, 2007 at 1:56 pm » Comments (1)

The Call of Cthulhu - H.P. Lovecraft Here we have a book split into three sections, with the links between them presented via someone who is searching for the truth behind ...more »

» by ChrisM June 2nd, 2007 at 1:38 pm » Comments (0)

The Call of the Wild - Jack London Set amongst the heady times of the American gold rushes, the main character in this book is a dog. We see the dog ...more »

» by ChrisM June 2nd, 2007 at 1:27 pm » Comments (0)

Martin Eden - Jack London This is definitely a book for budding writers to read and try and take some heart from. The main character is actually a sailor, who sees ...more »

» by ChrisM June 1st, 2007 at 4:06 pm » Comments (3)

The Mist - Stephen King Unlike the last review, I actually enjoyed this book a lot. Ever one for a helpfully descriptive title, a mysterious mist does indeed largely feature in ...more »

» by ChrisM June 1st, 2007 at 1:41 am » Comments (0)

Cell - Stephen King OK, I may just be in a bad mood as I write this review, but I did find this book formulaic, especially compared to The Mist (see ...more »

» by ChrisM May 31st, 2007 at 8:48 pm » Comments (1)

Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes If you enjoyed the first Forest Gump book, you are quite likely to enjoy this book. The main character in Flowers for Algernon has severe ...more »