A phenomenal collection of medical patient accounts of encounters with the mysterious during severe illness and life-threatening injury from the voice of the physician who took care of them. Both touching and thought-provoking, this book invites you to reconsider what happens when we die, and in doing so, challenges you to ponder that perhaps we…… Continue reading Near Death in the ICU by Laura Bellg, MD – A Book Review
I’m finally getting a bit of reading mojo back and, along with it, comes a heck of a lot of indecision … namely I have six books sat on my kindle and zero clue which to plump for next. I’m reading a Harry Potter book, so am in no rush to decide, but curious what…… Continue reading Books I can’t Wait for … and My Indecision
The world-famous cosmologist and number one best-selling author of A Brief History of Time leaves us with his final thoughts on the universe’s biggest questions in this brilliant posthumous work. How did the universe begin? Will humanity survive on Earth? Is there intelligent life beyond our solar system? Could artificial intelligence ever outsmart us? Throughout his extraordinary…… Continue reading Brief Answers to the Big Questions by Stephen Hawking – An Audio Book Review
Château Blissac, on its hill above St Roque, is in a setting where every prospect pleases. But it doesn’t please its current occupier, J. Wellington Gedge. Mr Gedge wants none of it – and particularly none of the domineering Mrs Gedge’s imperious wish that he should become American Ambassador to Paris. Instead he pines for…… Continue reading Hot Water by P. G. Wodehouse – An Audio Book Review
Blurb: INFINITY IS ONLY THE BEGINNING. The Pandominion: a political and trading alliance of a million worlds – except that they’re really just the one world, Earth, in many different realities. And when an AI threat arises that could destroy everything the Pandominion has built, they’ll eradicate it by whatever means necessary, no matter the…… Continue reading Infinity Gate by M. R. Carey – A Book Review
Despite my lack of reading or blogging time, the urge to pick more stuff up just isn’t easy to shake. Other than the Harry Potter books, I haven’t been able to sink my teeth into anything recently. Audio Books have been a bit more successful on that front, but who needs success when you can…… Continue reading Book Haul
Blurb: Owen Deathstalker, last of the infamous warrior Clan, always considered himself more of a writer than a fighter, preferring his history books to making any actual history with a sword. But books won’t protect him from Her Imperial Majesty Lionstone XIV, who just Outlawed and condemned Owen to death, without any explanation, reason, or…… Continue reading Deathstalker by Simon R. Green – An Audio Book Review
Blurb: If you could travel back in time, the period from 1660 to 1700 would make one of the most exciting destinations in history. It’s the age of Samuel Pepys and the Great Fire of London, bawdy comedy and the libertine court of Charles II, Christopher Wren in architecture, Henry Purcell in music and Isaac…… Continue reading The Time Traveller’s Guide to Restoration Britain by Ian Mortimer – An Audio Book Review
Blurb: Fleeing from a traumatic break-in, Londoners Paul and Tricia Feenan sell up to escape to the isolated Holiwell village where Tricia has inherited a property. Scattered throughout the settlement are centuries-old stones used during the Great Plague as boundary markers. No plague-sufferer was permitted to pass them and enter the village. The plague diminished,…… Continue reading The Plague Stones by James Brogden – An Audio Book Review
Blurb: History shapes those who travel through it. Determined to save the antiques store she has inherited from ruin after the unexplained disappearance of her parents, Sarah Lester discovers a jumbled collection of vintage postcards that leads her on a journey through time. Unprepared for the story the postcards weave about their reclusive former owner,…… Continue reading Fifteen Postcards by Kirsten McKenzie – An Audio Book Review
Swords & Spectres 