Update – 27/11/2022
I was very optimistic at the beginning of November about hitting the 50K word count target on the story I’m writing (currently titled Once), but now as the month is coming to an end I don’t think I’ll...
View ArticleMy Current Favourite Manga Series
My favourite manga series currently is without a doubt Asadora! and I can’t wait for volume 6 which comes out just before Christmas. Naoki Urasawa is my favourite mangaka, and I’ve pretty much loved...
View ArticleTen Years Later
I realised earlier today that I must be reaching ten years of writing on this blog, and it turns out that I’ve just missed that anniversary. My first post was on the 27th November 2012. I can’t believe...
View ArticleBlood on the Tracks: Volume 1 – Manga Review
Before reading Blood on the Tracks, I’d not read much by Shūzō Oshimi, so I wasn’t really sure what to expect. I had a feeling it was going to be weird and a little messed up, but the story was …...
View ArticleDecember 2022
November was a pretty good and productive one for me. My main target was to write 50,000 words of a story with the working title ‘Once’, which didn’t go exactly to plan, but I still made good progress....
View ArticleMy Book Challenge for December
So far in December I’ve read one book, and am almost 100 pages into another. For December I want to have read at least 5 books. That’s my challenge that I’ve given myself. I’ve read a fair bit this...
View ArticleThey Called us Enemy – Review
They Called Us Enemy is an autobiographical graphic novel from George Takei. Instead of dealing with his time as an actor, most of the book is focused on his childhood, specifically growing up during...
View ArticleNichijou: Volume 1 – Manga Review
Nichijou is a comedy manga written and illustrated by Keiichi Arawi. It’s bizarre, surreal, and silly to the extreme. There’s not an overarching story (at least not in the first volume), just a series...
View ArticleLooking Back
As the year is coming to an end, I’ve been looking back at some of the things I’ve written on my blog. For the last week the most read post on my blog every day has been my review of … Continue reading →
View ArticleDC3 – Manga Review
DC3 is a one-shot manga story from the creators of The Promised Neverland, which I haven’t read. I chose this story mainly because it was short and I was looking for a quick read. I’m very glad I did...
View ArticleLate Night Pitstop
It was just sitting there, so I had to pick it up. Tell me you wouldn’t have done the same. Tell me with a straight face and I’ll try to believe you. It was just there, sitting on the side … Continue...
View ArticleMid-December
Just like every other month this year, December is flying by. If you saw my post the other day, you know that I’ve had a lot of time wasted with my heating. There’s no major update on that just yet, …...
View ArticleThe Camden Murder by Mike Hollow
The Camden Murder is the latest in the Blitz Detective series from Mike Hollow that follow DI John Jago and his assistant DC Cradock. In The Camden Murder, Les Latham is found dead in a burning car,...
View ArticleAsadora! – Volume 6 – Manga Review
Asadora! is a fantasy/historical drama manga by Naoki Urasawa that follows Asa Asada, a school girl who also works as a secret pilot for the government to monitor a potential kaiju (giant monster)...
View ArticleZom 100: Bucket List of the Dead – Volume 8 – Manga Review
With Volume 8, Zom 100 goes back to having almost completely stand alone stories where the characters get up to zany adventures while slowly weaving their way through Japan to try and find a cure for...
View ArticleThe Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
The Wasp Factory was the first published novel by Iain Banks. Originally Banks wanted to be a science fiction writer, and spent the majority of the seventies writing sci-fi novels that didn’t get...
View ArticleMagic in London – Whistling
Undecipherable babble bubbled through the crowd as Chuck walked down Shaftsbury Avenue towards Piccadilly Circus. The taste of buffalo sauce still lingering in his mouth from the burger he’d eaten half...
View ArticleMoriking – Manga Review
Moriking is a very strange manga that’s a lot to wrap your head around, so bear with me. Shota gets a pet rhinoceros beetle that he names Moriking. When Moriking starts to grow he changes into an adult...
View Article2022
Now that Christmas is over and 2023 is getting close, which will hopefully be an even better year than 2022, I’ve been looking back at what I’ve done this year. Writing-wise, this year has been pretty...
View ArticleBeastars – Volume 4 – Manga Review
The fourth volume of Beastars show Legoshi coming to terms with what the panda doctor told him in the previous volume about his feelings towards Haru. The Meteor Festival is getting closer, with...
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