Ramblings of the Easily Distracted

One of the reasons I keep this blog is that I have a record of what I thought about something in the immediate period after experiencing...

I feel that I let myself down slightly this year on holiday, as I only managed to get through two books in the week we were away. In my ...

I feel like I've been lazy in catching up with reviewing books here. It's not that I'm not reading much (I'm up to 12 so...

After some dailliances with "mere fiction" recently, I seem to be solidly back on a History kick at the moment. This is partly...

As some of your may recall, I pretty much flipped out for the Welcome to Night Vale podcast last year, as I got sucked into its compelli...

So to finish off our trilogy of 2015 reviews, we come to the written word. This year I've managed to read 30 books, which I think is...

There was a bit of excitement yesterday when J K Rowling mentioned on a Radio 2 interview that she has "written some of a childrens ...

In conversation last week I realised that I've already sailed past my target of reading 20 books a year. In some ways thats not a ch...

So, we are still in "round up" mode and this time it's all the reading I've been doing. Somehow, I feel I'm making...

As a famous archologist almost said, "Spiders! Why did it have to be Spiders?!". Yes, I am mildly arachnophobic, and yes, I am...

There are a lot of fictional worlds out there that are engrossing, engaging and yet places you really wouldn't want to actually live...

One of the nice things about being on holiday is that I usually get chance to catch up on some big reading of big books, the sort of th...

A few years back I ran through a year of reading crime and detective fiction, to see how I enjoyed the genre. I started way back with Wi...

Having watched (and reviewed) Frank recently, I've been on a bit of a roll with Jon Ronson. He's one of those writers that alwa...

Crime is a genre I don't read enough. I few years back I read a "Year of Crime", 20 books from different writers across t...

Anyone who even casually glances at this blog, or my twitter feed, or facebook page, or, to be honest, probably just meets me, will quic...

So Farewell, then, 2014, and don't let the door hit you on the way out. There seems to be a general consensus that its been a bad year...

Ben Aaronovitch's Peter Grant series was one my big literary discoveries of last year, something that had slipped under my radar un...

I realised with some pleasure recently that I've hit my target of reading 20 books this year, which may not seem that many to some ...

Over on the Dissecting Worlds channel, we're currently doing a series on Spies and all things Espionage related. We've just re...