2025 Reading Challenge 38 Jhereg
Here we go, a fantasy book - hopefully a lighter read after the challenging ones. I believe I picked Jhereg after a recommendation for the best...
2025 Reading Challenge 37 Nutshell
I wanted something very different to Black Easter, so I swapped around a few books to settle on Ian McEwan. I last read his book On Chesil Beach, and I could...
2025 Reading Challenge 36 Black Easter
It’s only a hundred or so pages, and I gave myself an extra week to read this after holiday time allowed me to get ahead. Black Easter by James Blish This is...
2025 Reading Challenge 35 Revenger
Some heavy stuff in recent reads, so I was happy to pick up some Space Opera fiction and return to Alastair Reynolds. I am not the most avid reader of his...
2025 Reading Challenge 34 The Outsider
Thanks to Matthew Broome for recommending a starting point for Camus. The Outsider, or The Stranger. The difference seems to stem from the translation of the...
2025 Reading Challenge 33 Great-Uncle Harry
The full title is Great-Uncle Harry: A Tale of War and Empire. Another Michael Palin tour de force, where he delves deep and wide to find out the background...
2025 Reading Challenge 32 The Loney
I bought The Loney in 2016, read a few chapters, got bored, put it away, felt guilty after a few months, started it again, got more bored and decided Andrew...
The Electric State, Into the Dust Bonus
The Nantz Diaries These diaries were written after each session by Alex Marchant, who played Nantz in the game. With Alex’s permission, I’m reposting them...
2025 Reading Challenge 31 The Satsuma Complex
A man goes for a drink with an acquaintance in a pub and also meets the woman of his dreams and wishes, but she disappears. He is determined to find her....
The Electric State, Into the Dust 3 of 3
We’ve now completed Into the Dust, having travelled through the three Stops that shaped our Journey. Some characters reached their destination, chasing...
The Electric State, Into the Dust 2.3 of 3
Again, the group make progress down the road, until they are waved down by some hill billy types. Getting out of the car, they see the group they have...
2025 Reading Challenge 30 1984
Welcome to Airstrip One. It is 1984. 1984 by George Orwell I bought the book in 1984 when the movie featuring John Hurt and Richard Burton came out, and The...
The Electric State, Into the Dust 2.2 of 3
2.2 is Stop Two of Three, and it’s called Roadside Murder. Time to throw in some oddities, a large Drone pokes its head out of a barn as the group stops to...
2025 Reading Challenge 29 Treasure Island
I remember that as a kid, my dad had walls of bookshelves in the living room, dining room, and upstairs. Many of the books were collections, like Punch, The...
2025 Reading Challenge 28 Vurt
“Mandy came out of the Vurt-U-Want, clutching a bag of goodies…” and so begins Vurt. Vurt jeff noon/vurt I wrote this review after a campaign of The Electric...
The Electric State, Into the Dust 2.1 of 3
Now, on to the mini campaign, Into the Dust. I will break this down into the sessions that covered each of the three stops, so 2.1 equals Stop One. We played...
2025 Reading Challenge 27 Hiroshima
The book begins on Monday, August 6, 1945, at 8:15 a.m. as we enter the life of Toshiko Sasaki, a twenty-year-old clerk in the employment of the East Asia...
The Electric State, Into the Dust 1 of 3
Back in February, I called on four travellers - Martin, Jon, Alex and Gareth to join me on a road trip into an alternate 90s dystopian landscape. The...
Coriolis: The Third Horizon, Emissary Lost 1 of 3
On Monday, the 30th June 2025, our group finished Emissary Lost. We’ve been playing for 336 days, comprising 18 sessions, each lasting two hours, 36 hours in...
2025 Reading Challenge 26 Out
Out is a 1997 Japanese modern, feminist, crime novel written by Natsuo Kirino and translated by Stephen Snyder. It concerns four work colleagues on the night...
