Kieran Pell

Piransi by Susanna Clarke Winner of the 2021 Women’s Prize for Fiction

I was really late to the party here but THIS BOOK WAS BLOODY BRILLIANT!!!

The Blue Angel by Paul Magrs and Jeremy Hoad

this book is giving me immeasurable relief from some dull narrative non-fiction im slogging through at the moment. star trek, glass people, iris wildthyme and twenty questions.

cant ask for more than that

army of ghosts / doomsday

a cartoon of spongebob holding a bunch of papers in his hand ALT: a cartoon of spongebob holding a bunch of papers in his hand

i still have no idea what im supposed to be reading for my course which starts in 2 WEEKS!!! i thought it had to do david copperfield but nah not until after Christmas apparently so thats just a massive waste of time. i’m imagining the MA creative writing office is like this atm

If you see this, QTP with a title screen that’s iconic to you!

Books n Stuff: Fear Of The Dark with Kieran Pell

Helllo Everyone! This week more Books n Stuff! @lefthandeddalek.bsky.social joins me to talk about the novel Fear Of The Dark. We weren't very feared.

#DoctorWho

escaped the country for the weekend and now running around Rome, trying to conquer the behemoth David Copperfield before my course starts at the end of the month 😬

when I’m in the international gurning contest and i gotta bring out my blue steel

books and stuff! this week i force Luke to endure 300 pages of caves and blokes with guns facing off against creatures from before the dawn of time. it was reprinted so it must be good, right?

Helllo Everyone! Later this week @lefthandeddalek.bsky.social joins the Maran Chess Club for books and stuff!

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#DoctorWho

they took his eye, he took their lives…

party like its 1998 charity anthology

today is a good day

its so nice to hear a more favourable outlook of this season as i quite enjoyed it. the negative reception overall of rtd2 has soured me a lot on wider fandom a bit. i reckon we get a major reappraisal in 5-10 years

PARTY LIKE IT'S 1998 and OF THE CITY OF THE SAVED - the latest books from Obverse Books, now in stock.

In stock now, and don't they look lovely!

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i was gonna start it tomorrow whats wrong with it?

JUST GOT ACCEPTED INTO THE CREATIVE WRITING MA🎉🎉🎉

this means more to me than graduating did lol

"Without the humanities, all we have are the inhumanities." - Alan Moore.

definitely, condensing the origin by having mark gatiss tell it to me was nice and let us get to new territory on film.

my main gripe was how quick the globe was willing to accept we weren’t giving up this kid. FUCK THAT KID! surprised there wasnt a scene of someone trying to steal him away tbh.

just watched fantastic 4

dreadful script, probably because i dont care about babies.

film looked gorgeous tbf

go watch superman instead

*insert obligatory jeremy clarkson zero a levels and driving a nice car tweet*

spiderman is stuck in a time loop of the same action sequence for 2 and a half hours and has to engineer his escape somehow. even the mcu is feeling the ever restricting hand of a limited budget no matter how big

oooo didnt know ellis did hellblazer. recently read his run of the authority and enjoyed it. question is thought, does ennis beat delano?

should more doctor who stories feel like a bad acid trip in a public library?

the first faction paradox novel: This Town Will Never Let Us Go by Lawrence Miles

Lawrence Miles signature 228/300 for this hardcover

I am a very lucky man

just watched the new War of the Worlds on amazon prime

jesus that was shit. the editing gave me a migraine on top of it being for an ad for amazon and calling for a surveillance state stronger than is already in place.

potentially worst film ive seen this decade

empress of mars - fun runaround with ice warriors that is as deep as a puddle but a fun way to spend 45 minutes

monk trilogy - extremis is a neat take on simulation theory, PATEOTW is forgettable and Lie of the Land is shite Half-Life 2

eaters of light - cant remember a single thing about it apart from it been penned by Rona Munro

world enough and time / the doctor falls - a great story but set a precedent for fans to expect the show to perform intense fanwankery for the rest of eternity. when the show decided rightfully not to do this, fandom threw its cyberman dapol figure out of the pram and have cried for nearly a decade

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

just finished this. i assumed it was all hype and pretension but it truly was one of the best things i’ve ever had to privilege to read