Writing  +  Book Review Janice Hardy is a Fantasy author, and runs the Fiction University website / blog. Her blog is a source of interestin...

Book Review Highly spoken of, 'a classic', and yet... I don't know. It's epic scifi allright. Kim Stanley Robinson describes...

Audiobook Review This series is literally using ‘imagination’ as the primary magical means and method. It has some interesting aspects and i...

Music I suffer from an old time music revival, and now I'm stuck in the 70's. So let’s throw a classic at you: Boston’s debut album ...

Audiobook Review Space Opera by the numbers. So many books follow the traditional ‘captain down on his luck’ ‘fight against a secret force an...

Wallpaper I believe human nature is effectively blocking any usable form of communism and anarchism. That's why I believe in enlightened...

Audiobook Review Post apocalyptic YA with great concepts that becomes a little too far-fetched in the latter half of the third book. Concept...

Writing Simple, step by step instructions on how to maintain indents for regular text, as set in Word. In a nutshell: you need to set the in...

Music Yeah, that’s a song, not a book 🤔 Although the original was performed by Fred Astaire in the musical The Sky’s the Limit , and the be...

Datatalk Some newer drives use SMR instead of CMR recording. Unfortunately, manufacturers are not clear when they are using SMR technology. ...

Column  + Book Reviews I’m alternating between two fantasy / romance series, Faith Hunter’s Jane Yellowrock and Patricia Briggs’ Mercy Thom...

Book Review A somewhat humoristic horror (?) read. The main characters are 'british at all costs', featuring a paranormal gifted you...

Writing On  https://myindiebookshelf.com/ I ran into Lawrence Nault. Who is... real? Or not? When I see an AI generated or otherwise modifi...

Series Review Limitless  (the series) is more enjoyable than I expected (probably appeals to me because of the main character and his voice ...

Audiobook Review Trying to learn more about romance novels, I dipped my toes into the ‘Jane Yellowrock’ series. I think this is the second o...

Wallpaper So... I have a thing for eyes. Sue me. This wallpaper works great on multi-monitor setups with two identical monitors. Click on im...

Audiobook Review Sometimes I sample ultra cheap offers on Amazon / Audible. Here's one of those... It's another typical fantasy / ro...

Movie Review Ryan Reynolds is a busy bee. Here’s a high-octane, big FX take on The Truman Show (which is better) with a bit of The Matrix t...

Writing A little piece of Flash Fiction, triggered by user posts on Discord / Writers+ Lil, Matt, I hope you won't mind :-) (Written and...

Anime Review I think my first encounter with anime was back in '95. Yeah, I'm getting old 😔 (I know some people will hate me for ...

Series Review Shadow and Bone... Bone and Shadow...  Oh, what does it matter. It's just another Netflix fantasy series, decent first sea...

Series Review Things are never ever good enough. My god, can people complain! Yeah, I know. I do as well. It’s only human. But the amount of...

Series Review Street gang assists Watson and Holmes, fighting supernatural stuff. The single episode arcs are all tied together in the end. ...

Series Review I am a sucker for weird stuff with a bit of action, decent story line, interesting characters, and good production values. The...

Datatalk  + Kindle You can browse your library and retrieve all your purchased documents from your e-readers, but did you know you can send ...

Writing  + Reference Even if you're not interested in Wattpad, then the following links still provide some interesting reading, especial...

Audiobook Review I guess we’ve all read how our autistic Killer Bot handles the world, and in this book he finds a friend whilst rescuing hi...

Wallpaper I don't know what it is, but clouds always make for great wallpapers. This is a dual monitor version I found... somewhere 🤔 C...

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Series Review Oh dear.  Season 1  was promising, and had some interesting plotlines. An interesting ending. Lots of possibilities for a grea...

Series Review Just a single season, YA, and a bit tight on budget, yet quite promising. Unfortunately, there won't be a second season. I...

English:  Blogger is free, but a bit inflexible, so  I added some information to the 'about' pages. Dutch :  Blogger is gratis maar ...

Writing  +  Reference If your work uses any em-dashes (—) or ellipses (...) you may have considered the following conundrum: should you encl...

Series Review Are you old enough to remember the old  Addams' Family?  You might have seen one of the replays, or read any of the cartoo...

Writing I create and edit my covers in good ol' Photo Impact , with a dash of Krita on the side. I've shared this link in the past...

Writing I've updated immprep.exe, fixing two small bugs, and adding Word (.docx) support. Note that the command line parameters have cha...

Writing This is a follow-up to Book & Chapter Sizes . I found some information on the size of best selling books, and it seems they'...

Series Review Netflix has a habit of killing off promising fantasy series. Some barely make it past the first season, some get a few episode...

Column Elon Musk is still messing around with Twitter (aka the sewer of the Internet) and this time he has irked the user base by imposing l...

Amazon + Dutch Amazon is de grootste (online) boekhandel ter wereld, maar als Nederlandse gebruiker is niet altijd alles even duidelijk. Ee...

Formula 1 A few hours after the closure of the race in Austria (at the Red Bull ring) a number of drivers got additional time penalties, lea...

Movie Review Standard action flick with Jennifer Lopez as a former agent who went undercover to protect her newly born child, and has to pro...

Windows Why does Microsoft keep doing these things? My home server (a Windows 10 box) ran perfectly fine, and woke up when requested. And th...

Wallpaper Last month's wallpaper was a whopping 10kb, this one is actually the largest in my (small) collection, at 2.5 Mb. As usual I h...

Writing Warning: 18+, not suitable for work and the faint of heart. More covers from the Internet, trying to find a few good and bad example...

Audiobook Review  +  Movie Review "The Beloved Novel of Love, Friendship, Sisterhood and Magic". Right. They missed a single word ...

Writing Warning: 18+, not suitable for work and the faint of heart. I grabbed a few book covers from the Internet, trying to find a few good...

Audiobook Review You can't kill the dead. Well, it turns out you can.  With a bit of training. You know what's worse though than kil...

Writing Warning: 18+, not suitable for work and the faint of heart. I grabbed a few book covers from the Internet, trying to find a few good...

Column With Netflix continuing to increase their pricing, the offer of HBO Max looked pretty good... Who doesn't want a lifelong 50% dis...