I’m currently rebuilding the website as the old one got totally messed up when i was playing around with things (no idea what happened).
So i thought that while it was a total clusterfuck mess of SQL, i would take the opportunity to give it a whole new life and everything.
So if you go clicking on things you might find that very strange things happen. Don’t moan, i know a lot of things are broken, i’m working on it, it takes time.
I’ve got tons of old posts and pages from three websites that i’m working through and will be gradually posting all the stuff i want to keep on here while fixing all the broken things as i go through, one post, one page, at a time.
Other than doing all that, i will, of course, be continuing to add more new content and my latest posts will always appear directly below.
Enjoy
Ministry Protocol — Pip Ballantine & Tee Morris
1839 – A Nocturne for Alexandrina
1860 – Chinoiserie
1879 – A Feast of Famine
1888 – Panther Nights
1889 – Our Lady of Monsters
1889 – The New Recruit
1889 – The Boy, the Bomb, and the Witch Who Returned
1891 – The Clockwork Samurai
1894 – The Mystery of the Thrice Dead Man
1894 – New London Calling
1895 – The Trouble with Phoenixes
1898 – Where the River Shines
1894 – The Incident of the Clockwork Mikoshi
Pip’s Page Tee’s Page
#pipballantine #teemorris #steampunk
The Curse of the Silver Pharaoh — Pip Ballantine & Tee Morris
I discovered this huge steampunk series and i’m slowly collecting a good bunch of them before i have a go.
Ok, i admit it, it was the cover that got me. 
A steampunk outfit on a beautiful woman is all it takes to get me to buy a book. Yes, that’s the level of quality control we pride ourselves on here at Kindle Worm HQ — rest assured, you’re in safe hands.
I know, i’m a bad man. 
Pip’s Page Tee’s Page
#steampunk #pipballantine #teemorris
On Anarchism – Noam Chomsky
In all my years i’ve never gotten around to reading any of Noam’s stuff, so when a load of his books got put on offer for 99p i thought i’d give this a go at some time in the future, paid my pennies and threw it on ‘The Pile’.
You never know, i just may learn something i didn’t know i didn’t know.
Noam’s Page
#philosophy #noamchomsky
Abandon — Blake Crouch
Having totally loved having my head done in by ‘Dark Matter’ i immediately added Blake to my writers list in ‘Bookbub’ and, lo and behold, this popped up as a 99p deal and so the pile grew by one more book.
Blake’s Page
#blakecrouch
A Song of Ice and Fire — George R. R. Martin
I read this in 2014 thinking it wouldn’t be too long before the rest of the books were finished — oh, naivety becomes me. 
All i have to say is… ‘It better be worth the wait, George!’
Hopefully, now the TV series is in the can he’ll get on with finishing the books.
A Game of Thrones – 1996
A Clash of Kings – 1999
A Storm of Swords – 2000
A Feast for Crows – 2005
A Dance with Dragons – 2011
George’s Page
#fantasy #georgerrmartin
The Book of Deacon Anthology — Joseph R. Lallo
It’s been quite a few years since i read this — and, i might add, i immensely enjoyed it.
Since then Joseph has added quite a few novels and shorts to the series and you can find the whole series by clicking there.
The Rise of the Red Shadow
Entwell Origins: Ayna
The Book of Deacon
The Great Convergence
The Battle of Verril
Jade
The Stump and the Spire
Joseph’s Page
#fantasy #josephrlallo
Mr Penumbra’s 24-hour Bookstore — Robin Sloan
I read this quite some time ago, before i began writing a reviews, which is unfortunate but such is life. Anyways, since then i’ve read and reviewed ‘Ajax Penumbra: 1969’, which introduces the book store from a totally different perspective and gives a lot of background to ’24 Hour’. So i’d like to read this again one day straight after 1969, but i want to forget it all first and then start afresh.
It’s definitely a good book, that much i can remember.
Robin’s Page
#scifi #robinsloan
The Doors of Perception: And Heaven and Hell — Aldous Huxley
One day i’ll get around to reading this again, it’s been nearly 30 years and it just popped up in Kindle Daily Deals for 99p so i couldn’t turn it down.
I’m hoping to digitally rebuild my Aldous Huxley collection that i used to have years ago in real books – maybe when i’ve got a load i’ll have a good Huxley binge, but until then they can sit and gather some digital dust.
Aldous’ Page
#philosophy #aldoushuxley
Margaret Ogilvy — J.M.Barrie
>Having just read The Little White Bird and Peter Pan, it struck me that there may have been a little more to the characters than at first appears.
The character of Peter Pan was based on James’ brother, David, who died aged 13 (so never grew up), leaving the 6 year old James having to try and fill his shoes for his mother. So it made me wonder who Hook was based on. At first i thought Hook represented the parents but having read this book i’ve totally had a change of mind.
I suppose the clue is in Hook’s first name, also James. The hand that gets cut off by Peter, a metaphor for the part of James’ childhood, and life, that was taken from him the day his brother died. The hand is then fed to the ticking crocodile that follows Hook around wanting to consume the rest of him because it likes the taste — so is this another metaphor concerning the inevitable ticking clock of life, and that James felt the loss of his brother was continuously haunting and wanting to consume more of him and his family?
Then there’s Wendy, which having read this book cannot be based upon anyone other than Margaret Ogilvy herself. He mentions in the book how after his brother died, other local women who lost children would come to her to talk. Again, Wendy and the lost boys — the lost boys representing the children of the other women who went to join his brother David in heaven (Neverland).
But all that aside, this book was a heartfelt view into James’ home life and very much his relationship with his mother — who he obviously cared about immensely — and is an absolute must read for all fans of J.M. Barrie’s writing. The book also covers James’ early literary career and what made him want to become a writer. So a very worth while read.
So what’s next? After 3 books in a row, i’ll be taking a literary break away from Peter Pan, Neverland and J.M. Barrie as i’ve got a load of books on “The Pile” nagging to get read. But i’ll definitely be coming back to these three topics in my reading in the not too distant future.
Some more “Peter Pan and Neverland” books.
J. M. Barrie’s Page
#jmbarrie #peterpan #viclit
Babel-17 — Samuel R. Delany
One of the most imaginative sci-fi novels i’ve ever read.
I only bought it because i was looking for a book i read about 30 years ago that i can’t remember the title of and thought this may have been it, but it wasn’t. But i’m certainly not disappointed to have picked up the wrong book.
There’s all kinds of sub-genres in sci-fi and i’m not really sure where this one would fit. It’s mostly a deep dive into linguistics, as in how words and language are used and the meanings they convey, and Samuel does a wonderful exploration throughout the book.
It also takes in the future body modification — some interesting things going in this book, and does bring to mind some amazing potential within current science for the future body mod industry. The real future is certainly going to be interesting.
Anyways, well worth a read, and definitely worth it’s place in the “SF Masterworks” series.
Samuel’s Page
#scifi #sfmasterworks #bodymods #samuelrdelany
Fiction
The Expanse Drags on . . .
Fiction
0ooh yean, K. J. Parker.
Nonfiction
