We had a nice time at the beach, though it appears while my daughter is a beach girl, my son could care less for the sand and oppressive sunlight. Five minutes of splashing in the waves and he was done for the day.
One morning I took him for a stroll to a used book place and scored two John Jakes sword-&sorcery, non-Brak titles; Master of the Dark Gate and Witch of the Dark Gate. Maybe they're sword-&-planet, I'm not really sure. Later that same day, I drove out to a further used book store and stumbled on a hard cover of Manly Wade Wellman's The Old Gods Waken.
I also made the mistake over the past month of getting sucked into three books at once, not counting comics and graphic novels. Given my current reading time per day, I haven't finished any of them. I did complete one graphic novel at the beach, so I hope to review that soon.
Work is going to be very busy and I'm behind on numerous personal goals at home, so I might have a quiet Fall around the "social media" circles. We'll see.
I always hate coming back to work from a break and seeing the stuff piled up. i'll be dealing with that tomorrow myself. I've got those Jakes books. Read Witch of the Dark GAte years ago. Don't remember a lot about it.
ReplyDeleteVery cool, I didn't know Jakes had even done anything S&S/S&P that wasn't Brak related. I'll keep an eye out.
ReplyDeleteDave; they were mentioned on the discussion thread for Jakes over at conan.com
ReplyDeleteThere is a third one, FYI, called The Last Magicians.