Book Review

Horus Rising

November 2, 2024 · 1 min

I was introduced to the world of Warhammer 40k (from Games Workshop), as a freshman in college. I played the tabletop game and collected figurines. Many years later I stumbled upon the fiction published by Games Workshop, Black Library division. Their immersive fiction spanned the Warhammer universe which takes place 40k in the far future. Then in 2016, they started publishing some of the historical events that shaped that universe. The seminal event in this universe is the Horus Heresy which occurred 10k earlier. This is where the Warmaster Horus, one of the emperor’s sons, betrays him, leading to a brutal civil war between the loyalist and traitor factions …

Book Review

The Three Musketeers

October 22, 2024 · 1 min

Finished listening to the Audible Original Drama of the Three Musketeers. This was a fully dramatized audio book, with 39 actors bringing to life the characters of D’Artagnan, Athos, Porthos and Aramis. While the dramatization is not a 100% faithful retelling of the Alexander Dumas classic, it is still very well done and very entertaining. This was one of those audible books, that once I started, I wanted to keep listening to, until complete.

Book Review

The Complete midshipman Bolitho

October 12, 2024 · 1 min

Finished reading “The Complete Midshipman Bolitho” by Alexander Kent. This is the first book, in a series of nautical fiction novels set during the late 18th century in the Royal Navy. The central character in the series is Richard Bolitho. In researching about the book series, I discovered, that Alexander Kent was actually a pseudonym for Douglas Reeman. This book is actually a compilation of the first 3 Bolitho books. …

Book Review

Nightfall

October 6, 2024 · 1 min

I read Nightfall and other stories by Isaac Asimov, back when I was a teenager (so 30 some years ago). This time around, I finished “reading” this book again, this time as an audio book, from Audible. Nightfall and other stories is a collection of 20 stories, compiled by Asimov himself, who prefaced each story with an introduction. The first story is “Nightfall”, the tale of a world ordinarily illuminated by sunlight at all times. Darkness only happens once every 2000 years. This is the one story I remembered from the first time I read it, and it still one of the greatest science fiction stories of all time. …

Essay

So Apparently I Have Been Blogging

September 21, 2024 · 1 min

So apparently, I have been blogging since 2010 per my profile on this site… I know I have never posted anything on any blog site, but I guess, I must have logged into blogger once, long ago. While I have been thinking about blogging off and on for a while, I actually have never posted anything. I wanted to create a separate place to post things I didn’t want to share specifically on other social media sites, or where I can go more in depth than I normally do on those sites. I am not going to post anything from the past, just new things going forward. So finally, after 14 years of procrastination here is my first post.