Quick notification

..that I am still alive. Yes I know it has been awful quiet here but sadly I don’t seem to be able to read much these days. My typical day would be waking up at 7 AM, going to school at 7.50 and arriving there at 8.20 AM, around 3-4 PM my school-day ends and after that I hurry to my tennis training, job at the local supermarket or whatever. Dinner at home, doing some homework and then.. I am just too tired to read many pages in a book.

I did finish reading “I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell” by Tucker Max which is supposedly a New York Times bestseller. It was great fun and hilarious at times. Synopsis of the book:

“My name is Tucker Max, and I am an asshole.

I get excessively drunk at inappropriate times, disregard social norms, indulge every whim, ignore the consequences of my actions, mock idiots and posers, sleep with more women than is safe or reasonable, and just generally act like a raging dickhead.

But, I do contribute to humanity in one very important way. I share my adventures with the world.”

I would recommend reading it to everyone who does not shy away from the more ‘vulgar’ themes of life. At the least you will have be able to stand NSFW language.

As for other readings, like I said I can’t seem to be able to read a lot so I am still ploughing my way through Winterbirth by Brian Ruckley. So far it have been a slow read and right now I am really hoping for it to pick up some pace, as it would quicken the read enormously. There have been some changes as well, some of you might know I am quite active over at the FantasyBookSpot board (Join now!) and now I have joined their ranks of AR’s (associate reviewers). This means that I will be doing reviews on FantasyBookSpot.com as well (in a somewhat similar fashion as Neth Space) when I read books that have not been reviewed there yet. Winterbirth is one of those. Apart from where the review is located, nothing much will change it is still the same ‘ol Gravel Pit style review. It is just at another website, but I do hope that will not stop you from reading my thoughts on books. Why there you ask? Well, as I pointed out some time ago, one of my goals of blogging and reviewing is to expose the works of authors that I think deserve the attention. The best reviews on FBS generate about 9000 page views while mine generate about 120 page views. So what would you think would be the better way to expose works to a general public? You got it right.

Don’t get me wrong, I am dedicated to this blog, I love ‘owning’ some small place in the blogosphere so I will keep updating here for sure. I will also let you when I put a review at FBS, so you can just sit on your lazy buts and click the link! What a service, eh? Of course, not every novel I pick up has not had its review on FBS yet, and those I will review here accordingly. For example, I just ordered the last two novels of the Prince of Nothing trilogy and I will post my thoughts on them here. Same goes for series that I have already started reviewing here. No need to worry!

And in other news, Orbit Books just put this really nice cover of the third Joe Pitt novel, “Half the Blood of Brooklyn”. Remember I reviewed the first on in the series, Already Dead, some time ago? Without further ado, I hereby present:

Lovely eh?!