Wisdom of Bookmonkey

About twenty pages into Jack Vance's Lyonesse II: The Green Pearl , I started thinking that the book would end up an awful lot like th...

Hello good readers, I'm back from the back of beyond and have become all rough and tumble. Or at least, able to pose as mostly rough...

So I'm off to the mountains pretty soon, don't worry I won't forget you, I'll just have a small break between posts. Rea...

One of the joys of having children five years apart is the ability to take the lessons learned with the first kid and see if they have any...

Picking up M. John Harrison’s 1974 Science Fiction novel The Centauri Device , I was pretty excited, as the book was only 185 pages long a...

Last night I read that Robin Williams had passed. Like just about everyone I know, I've been enjoying Robin Williams films, televi...

One of the joys of watching classic television with my kids is it allows me to revisit personal favourites of my own childhood.  When they...