So, in continuing reading books related to the Trojan War I recently read two books by Dan Simmons – Ilium and Olympos. These strange, convoluted, but interesting books were “loosely” about the Trojan War, but also included aliens, modern and post-modern humans. Essentially, there were four or five distinct and quite different stories being toldContinue reading “Books and book reviews”
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A Milestone Post
This is blog post number 1100 for me. I started this blog in 2021 not quite sure where it would go. Over the years I’ve varied the number of posts that I wrote. 2022 was a big year coming off the second year of the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic (COVID). WHo knows what this year will bringContinue reading “A Milestone Post”
Book review of the month
Typically, I’d rather be reading science-fiction but I had seen this book at Literati twice. Needing something to read I decided to get it, what could I lose? Anyway, a book with a cover having a female orc in a coffee shop with treats couldn’t be all that bad – right? Well, was I wrongContinue reading “Book review of the month”