Books from the Backlog is a fun way to
feature some of those neglected
books sitting on your bookshelf. You might
be surprised by some of the unread books hiding in your stacks. Go to
Carole's blog and add your blog post link in to join in the fun! Hosted
by Carole at https://carolesrandomlife.blogspot.co.uk/
This seems
like a fun feature and I have been planning to take part since Carole
launched this so at last, here we go! I have a TON of unread books to
choose from in various genres and I'm looking forward to sharing some of
them with everybody.
The British government
now runs island prisons for the worst offenders from its mainland jails.
New arrivals are dumped by helicopter and must learn to survive as best
they can. To Sert, one afternoon in July, is brought Anthony John
Routledge, sentenced for a sex-murder he did not commit. Routledge knows
he is he is here for ever. And he knows he must quickly forget the
rules of civilized life.
This book was the inspiration for the Ray Liotta film 'No Escape' but there isn't much similar about them from what I remember! I was disappointed that they were so different when I first read it but that was back in the 90's. I still have it and plan to read the book again and ana;lyse and review it in it's own right!
For the first time ever, Chuckles Book Cave is going to be joining in with Scifi month hosted by https://onemore.org/ and https://deargeekplace.com/ , which runs the whole month of November. There will be blog posts, Twitter posts and even a giveaway and I'm pretty excited at taking part this year and reading some SF books and watching SF films hopefully.
Here are most of the unread SF books I have on my shelf and I hope to get to as many as I can. No specific target in mind, just reading fun! A few are rereads so I can refresh my memory as to what happened but most are new to me.
1) Martha Wells-Exit Strategy
2) Amie Kaufman-Illuminae
3) Anne McCaffrey-Dinosaur Planet
4) Anne McCaffrey-The Survivors
5) Christopher Brookmeyer-Bedlam
6) Ernest Cline-Armada
7) Jeff VanderMeer-Annihilation
8) Elizabeth Briggs-Future Shock
9) Elizabeth Briggs-Future Threat
10) Elizabeth Briggs-Future Lost
11) Joelle Charbonneau-The Testing
12) Joelle Charbonneau-Independent Study
13) Joelle Charbonneau-Graduation Day
14) Becky Chambers-The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet
15) Nicholas Sansbury Smith-Hell Divers
16) Jules Verne-Journey to the Center of the Earth
17) Andy Weir-The Martian
18) PK Hawkins-Recon Marines
19) Richard Herley-The Penal Colony
20) Kenneth C Johnson-V
21) Mur Lafferty-Six Wakes
22) Marie Lu-Warcross
Hi everyone, Dave coming at you across the airwaves...well internet waves or whatever they are! What does a furry pumpkin know about technology anyway? It's a cold October day with a hint of frost in the air and I've been considering getting my own back on pumpkin carvers by dressing as Pennywise the Clown with a chainsaw and causing a few frights...but nobody in our area goes much for trick or treat style Halloween. Our street has no decorations or cannibalistic offerings (carved pumpkins!) so I'm feeling good about life right now. Tonight will be a cosy night in front of the fire, watching a bit of TV and eating chocolate and crisps, ignoring the door if anyone knocks. I'm not a social kind of guy!
We enjoyed our usual Halloween ritual of watching John Carpenter's The Fog, one of my mum's favourite horror films, followed by a tasty lunch of scallops and prawns in a parsley and lobster sauce with cheese crusty bread! Yum! This afternoon sadly was spent looking online at hoovers as ours exploded again and showered the carpet with all kinds. My grampa is off to get a new one as we speak. We're giving all the carpets in the house a Lily of the Valley Shake N Vac before we hoover so things should smell nice. Being a pumpkin I prefer the Pine Fresh variety like a forest floor but mum couldn't get it this time round.
Our shopping officially finished! One final trip out to fill up the fridge and we have enough food in the house to see us to the end of January easily. We just happened to witness a sale at Thorntons so a big pile of chocolate boxes came into the house yesterday and some cake for good measure! You need Halloween snacks, right? We just don't share them with anyone! To cap off a good day, Amazon delivered a few more books which we'll share with you on the Friday roundup post but I can tell you that one was the new Halloween novel! Excited! I'm doing the pumpkin wiggle as we speak!
We did have an issue with a book company in the US that we've ordered successfully from a few times. We've waited three weeks for delivery and as well as being late, they sent the wrong book! Instead of the Monster Haven novel we were waiting keenly on, we were sent an actual Harlequin romance without even a remote connection to what we bought! What's going on with that? At least we're getting a refund!
Tomorrow is the start of Scifi month which my mum is taking part in for the first time. We'll be starting with a bit of Murderbot I think! Dust off those dinosaur planets, weird tech and dystopian adventures! Tonight, I might just watch The Thing and Aliens!
Laters!
Dave
Can't Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted at http://www.wishfulendings.com/ to spotlight and discuss books we're excited about but haven't read, which may not even be released yet.
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The official novelization of the highly anticipated revamp of the classic horror film Halloween.
In 1978, Laurie Strode survived an encounter with Michael
Myers, a masked figure who killed her friends and terrorized the town of
Haddonfield, Illinois on Halloween night. Myers was later gunned down,
apprehended and committed to Smith's Grove State Hospital.
For
forty years, memories of that nightmarish ordeal have haunted Laurie and
now Myers is back once again on Halloween, having escaped a routine
transfer, leaving a trail of bodies in his wake. This time, Laurie is
prepared with years of survival training to protect herself, her
daughter Karen and her granddaughter Allyson, a teenager separated from
her family and enjoying Halloween festivities.
CHUCKLES WANT! It's just been released and I want it right now!
Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish
in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of
2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to
bring bookish friends together. http://www.thatartsyreadergirl.com/top-ten-tuesday/
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comments, and I won't allow them to follow new people, update my
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This week I decided just to do a list of ten favourite slasher horror films/film series.
1) Halloween
2) Sleepaway Camp
3) The Burning
4) Friday the 13th
5) Scream
6) My Bloody Valentine
7) Fatal Games
8) Pieces
9) Stagefright
10) I know what you did last summer
