I walked a lot on Halloween and then it rained for the first 3 days of November (oscillating between rain and drizzle) and finally was mostly cloudy today with only late night drizzle. In other words exactly how I imagine November only warmer. But all of this combined with the time change made me want to sleep all day long (which I would if I didn' ( Read more... )

Gollancz announced on Monday that they’d are going to publish the rest of The Witcher books. First will come the missing set of short stories - The Sword of Destiny in May 2015. [Small spoiler]I always found it weird they decided to skip it as the stories in this are they're ones that set up the whole Ciri, the Child of Surprise thing. They explain a lot of who ( Read more... )

The persistent rumour Matt Smith is leaving Doctor Who inevitably became true. This means, of course, speculation craze about who will be the next Doctor. The rumour mill is fed by constant stream of sure picks. The Telegraph announced Rory Kinnear was picked. Other sources insisted it's down to Domhnall Gleeson, Daniel Kaluuya and Dominic Cooper. ( Read more... )

I'm living in a state of perfect summer right now. Or at least it would be called summer in Poland - it's still too cold for natives. It was 28 today and sunny and then suddenly it started to pour. The storm lasted an hour and then iit started to evaporate, The smell of of rain grass and the acacias blooming were so much like Polish June I got all ( Read more... )

I clicked on imdb page today and saw a link to a trailer for The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings console edition and it made me feel so weird. It's been over a quarter of century since the first short story was published. Just a competition story by a first time author. Who could imagine what the whole thing would grow to? Most didn't even imagine ( Read more... )

It seems that Andrzej Sapkowski’s Blood of Elves won the first ever David Gemmell Legend Award.

YES!!!

Since I love all the Witcher books this is very good news. The Blood of Elves is great, one of the best books I ever read and deserves any award it gets but the next ones are even better. Although I don't think I can choose the favourite book of the ( Read more... )