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Slower going than I thought it would be.

Buehlman doesn't do light hearted. And that's sort of the point. Been looking forward to this one since it was released last year.

King. Master of the page.

Insofar as that he will use a page when a sentence would have done.

I'll stick with it. Only two more books to go. Blimey. He goes on worse than Dickens

An utter pleasure so far. The author writes in an endearing and engaging way, it's not too academic and I'm learning things about history as well as music.

Seriously thinking of not finishing this. It just winds me up with all the nonsense he talks. It's why it's taking me so long so get through it. I can only handle his nonsense about once or twice a month.

I can't for the life of me work out why this book has done so well.

I suppose I'm reading to see where I'm going wrong. There may well yet be some nuggets of extraordinary insight....

Nonsense.
But I'll stick with it.
If you're going to study magic, then study magic. Don't study pseudoscience. Dispenza states many things that are simply out and out false, claiming some scientific basis for them. A curious book.

Utterly sublime storytelling.

Still reading it out loud to my missus. I'm really enjoying it, doing the different voices. I've got Tony down as a manic Frank Muir 😉

My missus hadn't read any Nevill before, and I'd been recommending this one for a while. However, because I've been wanting to re-read this one myself for ages, I've ended up reading it out loud to her, which is different. So we can essentially read it at the same time. As gripping as I remembered it.

I'm doubtful. But I'll give it a go.

I don't claim to understand a lot of this, I guess it's the reasoning and the mathematics that I don't always follow, but Mr Rovelli is such a good writer that you can't fail to be gripped by the narrative, the conclusions, the sheer weirdness of the universe. I started this thinking I would give in after ten pages, but here I am halfway through.

An extraordinary book. I love the way Alan Moore presents, at this stage, gods, deities and magic itself, as simply ideas. Ideas of course are as real as anything else, yet we can't measure them or see them. And without ideas, where would this tangible world be?

Can't find any details for this book on GoodReads so;
ISBN 9780575113497
published 2011 by Gollancz
This edition printed by Orion

Stories:
The Tower Of The Elephant
Rogues in the House
The Frost Giants Daughter
Queen of the Black Coast
A witch Shall be Born
The People of the Black Circle
Red Nails
Beyond the Black River
The Hyborian Age
Cimmeria (verse)

Not much.

So far, not was promised from the blurb

Not what was