Koi's Notebook

14/1/10 - Ill
15/1/10 - Ill
16/1/10 - Editing
17/1/10 - 865 words on Pral-Vrai System
18/1/10 - Ill
19/1/10 - Ill
20/1/10 - Day Off
21/1/10 - 849 words on "Majestic Skies"
22/1/10 - 1088 words on Cult of Irix
23/1/10 - 30/1/10 - Ill
31/1/10 - 493 words on The Veiled Queen & The Drowning Pool
01/2/10 - 11/2/10 - Ill
12/2/10 - Art; Altaïr

( Review: Sharpe's Siege by Bernard Cornwell )

This book is:
* - compelling historical military fiction
* - crisply written and clearly plotted
* - good reading

This book is not:
* - bright, shiny, happy fun-times
* - contained of most of the regular Sharpe cast
* - anything at all like the Gaunt's Ghosts novels

2/1/10 - Ill
3/1/10 - 1987 words on Pral-Vrai System
4/1/10 - Ill
5/1/10 - 1120 words on Pral-Vrai System

( Review: Everyman Ghost Stories, ed. John Hampden )

This book is:
* - full of human, elegant ghost stories
* - heavy on the Inescapable Classics
* - a great collection of good stories

This book is not:
* - easy prose
* - to be read in one go
* - in print

16/12/09 - 18/12/09 - Ill

( Review: Necropolis by Dan Abnett )

This book is:
* - better than the sum of its parts
* - better than Ghostmaker
* - an okay read

This book is not:
* - made of very many good parts
* - better than First and Only
* - more than okay

29/11/09 - Art; Black Wizards: The Cauldron
30/11/09 - Blocked
1/12/09 - Ill
2/12/09 - Ill
3/12/09 - 2248 words on various
4/12/09 - Ill

( Review: Warriors of Ultramar by Graham McNeill )

This book is:
* - exciting
* - full of strong characters
* - a good read

This book is not:
* - original
* - strongly plotted
* - contained of prose worthy of its characters

14/11/09 - 17/11/09 - Ill
18/11/09 - Art: Dark Redemption profiles
19/11/09 - Art: Dark Redemption profiles
20/11/09 - Art: Dark Redemption profiles
21/11/09 - Day Off

( Review: Ghostmaker by Dan Abnett )

This book is:
* - a collection of character vignettes
* - technically well-written
* - two-elevenths good reading

This book is not:
* - particularly fun
* - contained of enough plot
* - nine-elevenths good reading

30/10/09 - 4/11/09 - Ill
5/11/09 - 1147 words on Pral-Vrai System
6/11/09 - 4343 words on Pral-Vrai System
7/11/09 - 3958 words on Pral-Vrai System

( Review: Nightbringer by Graham McNeill )

This book is:
* - a good book with a great ending
* - contained of excellently-realised characters
* - a good starter book for the new W40K reader

This book is not:
* - taking any risks
* - doing much for in its first three-quarters
* - going to suffer for a second reading

12/10/09 - 22/10/09 - Ill

( Review: In Praise of Shadows by Junichiro Tanizaki )

This book is:
* - a rambling discourse on the lost delights of darkness
* - subtle
* - beautiful

This book is not:
* - long
* - bold
* - to be read quickly

28/9/09-1/10/09 - House moving
2/10/09 - Ill
3/10/09 - Ill
4/10/09 - House moving
5/10/09 - House moving
6/10/09 - 8/10/09 - Ill

( Review: First and Only by Dan Abnett )

This book is:
* - well-written
* - surprisingly shory
* - good as a sci-fi novel, excellent as a W40K novel

This book is not:
* - of any specific genre
* - going to win prizes for originality
* - excellent as a non-tie-in novel

18/9/09 - 24/9/09 - House Moving

( Review: Dark Apostle by Anthony Reynolds )

This book is:
* - very slow in the plot
* - mostly battle scenes
* - bland despite the slaughter of untold thousands

This book is not:
* - well thought-out by the author
* - graceful
* - as good as it could have been

20/7/09 - 22/7/09 - Ill
23/7/09 - Art: Commission
24/7/09 - Ill
25/7/09 - Art: Commission
26/7/09 - 1/8/09 - Ill
2/8/09 - Art: Dark Redemption profiles
3/8/09 - Ill
4/8/09 - Art: Dark Redemption profiles
5/8/09 - 10/8/09 - Ill

( Review: Bloomsbury Classic Ghost Stories )

This book is:
* - short
* - heavy going
* - full of old stories

This book is not:
* - interesting
* - scary
* - worth buying