Category: Fiction
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Berserk: a new chapter on the way
Kentaro Miura’s Berserk is infamous not only for its content (the analogy with GoT is only up to a point: the manga is definitively…
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Three for the Months (April 2020)
One of the things lockdown is good for (in addition of help fight Covid-2019) is that you get additional time for reading (even if…
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Deadly Companions: a reading list for the pandemic.
If like many people (including me) in this part of the world you’re in lockdown, total or partial, you might find some of these…
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Three for the Months (March 2020)
I can’t believe the time has gone so fast! I still have to finish one of my February books, but the line up for…
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Three for the Month (February 2020)
I didn’t even notice I was doing this post on St Valentine Day, probably because I paid no attention to the celebration (sorry, Eros),…
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(A few reasons why) you should read/watch Berserk
People who follow this blog already know how much I could possibly love manga (and anime). However, one friend just made me realise I’ve…
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Three for the Month (January 2020)
Thanks to Christmas (time + gift cards), I had the opportunity to go on a shopping spree in my favourite places: bookshops and manga…
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Three for the Month (December 2019)
After Medieval history in November (rewarded by S2 of Knightfall just landed on Netflix, something that makes me cringe but I can’t void watching…
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Three for the Month (November 2019)
November is traditionally the SF month in the blogging community but this year, due to job reasons, is going for me to be Medieval…
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Three for the Month (October 2019)
This month I am slightly late to announce my three selected books, but the good thing is that I have already started reading them.…
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In the Shadow of the Moon (2019) – A review.
“One of the chief joys of the time travel subgenre is strictly mechanical: it’s all about the ways nonlinear characters let creators deconstruct a…
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Three for the Month (September 2019)
In these difficult (in the sense of super-busy) days at work, it is never an easy task to find time to read a new…
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Voting for the Hugo Awards
The end of July is rapidly approaching, and it’s now the time to vote for the Hugo Awards, whether you’re attending Worldcon (this year…
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Interview with Kelly Matsuura, Publisher and Editor of The Insignia Series Anthologies
I am thrilled to host this month an interview with Kelly Matsuura, the Publisher of the Insignia Series, anthologies of Asian SF and Fantasy. Who…
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Writing about (historical) witchcraft.
It is with a lot of pleasure that I can finally give the announcement. My article “The Inquisitor’s creatures: the historical roots of the…
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Netflix’s Roman Empire Season 3: The Mad Emperor
I have already talked about this interesting and well-researched historical series on the Roman Empire, which devoted the first season to Emperor Commodus (you…
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The Friday Face-Off: A cover featuring a desert landscape
The meme The Friday Face-Off was originally created by Books by Proxy. Each week bloggers showcase books with covers centred around a weekly theme.…
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Mary Queen of Scots (2018). A review.
I was since the beginning not that keen to watch this movie, for a fairly good reason. Having researched the historical period and the…
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The autopsy of Jane Doe (2016). A review.
This relatively unknown movie, right now available on Netflix, was a pleasant surprise for many reasons -the first being that it is not what…
