Life and Vikings, II. Now with cowboys!
Well, the year is winding itself down. I guess there's just a couple days left, or something?
Three car-loads of us (ten persons) headed up to Toronto yesterday for the Grand Geek Trip. 401 Convenience, Hairy Tarantula, World's Biggest Book Store, and then a nice jaunt over to the Silver Snail. And food and drink.
My purchases were pretty sparse. The latest expansion for Small World, which includes a tray for all the previous expansions (which I also have). Fourth edition L5R, bought more from a sense of completion then a desire to run it. So, a pretty foolish purchase, really.
And then we got to the book store. Damn. Seven books. *sigh* Okay, I'll read them all. Many are "known properties" and a couple were books I'd pondered based on reviews and recommendations from the Webs. So, the trip was about twice as expensive as I planned it to be. Luckily, the geek trips don't happen too often.
Not much for me for comics this time around, that was really the area-of-interest of others. ANd then we were home.
True Grit? I loved it. Chaz felt it was his least favourite Coen Brothers movie. On the other hand, for the repartee alone I felt it deserved accolades. At any rate, I really enjoyed it.
Book 51/51.14 The Wolf Sea by Robert Low, pb, 366 pages
The second in a series that started with The Whale Road, the Orm and the Oathsworn arrive in Miklagaard, Constantinople. Sometimes the worst part of knowing where Attila's horde is isn't that you don't actually have any of it. It's that everyone thinks you do, and can guide them there.
Orm, sure that he and the Oathsworn are Odinn-cursed, ends up embroiled in intrigues, and chases another varangi, their nemesis Starkad, south, across the wine-dark seas of the Mediterranean, across the rocky wastes of the holy land, and to Jerusalem.
Enjoyable sword pr0n, but the next two books are going onto the queue, time for me to read something about non-Vikings for a while.
Doug.
Three car-loads of us (ten persons) headed up to Toronto yesterday for the Grand Geek Trip. 401 Convenience, Hairy Tarantula, World's Biggest Book Store, and then a nice jaunt over to the Silver Snail. And food and drink.
My purchases were pretty sparse. The latest expansion for Small World, which includes a tray for all the previous expansions (which I also have). Fourth edition L5R, bought more from a sense of completion then a desire to run it. So, a pretty foolish purchase, really.
And then we got to the book store. Damn. Seven books. *sigh* Okay, I'll read them all. Many are "known properties" and a couple were books I'd pondered based on reviews and recommendations from the Webs. So, the trip was about twice as expensive as I planned it to be. Luckily, the geek trips don't happen too often.
Not much for me for comics this time around, that was really the area-of-interest of others. ANd then we were home.
True Grit? I loved it. Chaz felt it was his least favourite Coen Brothers movie. On the other hand, for the repartee alone I felt it deserved accolades. At any rate, I really enjoyed it.
Book 51/51.14 The Wolf Sea by Robert Low, pb, 366 pages
The second in a series that started with The Whale Road, the Orm and the Oathsworn arrive in Miklagaard, Constantinople. Sometimes the worst part of knowing where Attila's horde is isn't that you don't actually have any of it. It's that everyone thinks you do, and can guide them there.
Orm, sure that he and the Oathsworn are Odinn-cursed, ends up embroiled in intrigues, and chases another varangi, their nemesis Starkad, south, across the wine-dark seas of the Mediterranean, across the rocky wastes of the holy land, and to Jerusalem.
Enjoyable sword pr0n, but the next two books are going onto the queue, time for me to read something about non-Vikings for a while.
Doug.