I've just survived my first week back at school after the half term. This weekend I needed to recover and regroup, but I have to get a fancy dress outfit together for World Book Day 2014 and I am seriously stressed about it. I hate fancy dress. I hate the idea of dressing up and being someone else because that's exactly what I had to do with the ( Read more... )

I was reading another Steven Erikson book when I came across this quote, as Kalam, an assassin, who is wondering through the Realm of Shadow after his wife turfed him out of their dwelling as she is busy dealing with 1300 refugee children they picked up two books ago. The God of Assassins, a secondary deity in the Realm of Shadow, approaches him ( Read more... )

I've had Robert Jordan's fantasy epic The Wheel of Time sitting in pride of place on my bookshelf and staring at me for quite some time. I hadn't plucked up the will to read it, on the basis that I found it really, really hard to read the books as they were coming out with huge gaps in between (I'd much rather wait until they're finished), and I ( Read more... )