The urge to write the obligatory Happy New Year message.
Archive | December 2013
Review: The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
I celebrated New Year’s Eve by going to the cinema with my two best friends this afternoon. We had been looking forward to seeing ‘The Desolation of Smaug’ since seeing the first Hobbit film last year.
The journey of Bilbo and his dwarven companions continues as they try to escape the orcs. They take refuge in the house is Beorn the skinshifter, who offers them limited assistance. He dislikes dwarves, but hates orcs more.
A journey through Mirkwood goes badly wrong but Bilbo, and a dozen barrels come to their rescue. Kili makes a conquest if a romantic nature. Later, they make their way to Laketown, and from there their ultimate goal, Erebor – The Lonely Mountain – is only a stones throw, or a dragon’s wingflap, away.
Almost 2014. Already.
This time of year people all over the world settle in to get drunk and make promises to themselves about what they’ll do next year.
My friends know me quite well, it turns out
One bought me a book of comic, verse, renditions of myths, and the other bought me the most beautiful notebook in the history of notebooks.
Daily Prompt: You’re a Winner!
Daily Prompt: I Was Here
“Watch out for those hairy spider things; they’ll take your eyes out.”
Review: The Best British Fantasy 2013
Editor: Steve Haynes
Salt Publishing
2013
Contributors:
Jon Wallace Lavie Tidhar Joseph D’Lacey
E. J. Swift Carole Johnstone Cheryl Moore
Steph Swainston Kim Larkin-Smith Mark Morris
Cate Gardner Sam Stone Alison Littlewood
Simon Kurt Unsworth Lisa Tuttle Simon Bestwick
Tyler Keevil Adam L. G. Nevil
