Skip to main content

Featured

eBook – The Empire Striketh Back

eBook –  The Empire Striketh Back Full title :  William Shakespeare's The Empire Striketh Back By : Ian Doescher  Iillustrations :  Nicolas Delort Score : 9/10 Year : 2014 Publisher : Quirk Books  eISBN :  978-1-59474-716-8 Based on  978-1-59474-715-1 (hard cover) Pages : 176 *  Language : English From Goodreads : Hot on the heels of the New York Times best seller William Shakespeare’s Star Wars comes the next two installments of the original trilogy: William Shakespeare’s The Empire Striketh Back  (and not reviewed as yet,  William Shakespeare’s The Jedi Doth Return.) Return to the star-crossed galaxy far, far away as the brooding young hero, a power-mad emperor, and their jesting droids match wits, struggle for power, and soliloquize in elegant and impeccable iambic pentameter. Illustrated with beautiful black-and-white Elizabethan-style artwork, these two plays offer essential reading for all ages. Something Wookiee this way comes!  *** As he explains at the end, Ian Doescher
Post a Comment
Read more
Labels

To be read and watched January 2018



Alright, in the past few months, I'd posted a few 'to be read and watched' entries a bit too often. I also kept rescheduling book reading and movie-watching, so from now on, I'll make an entry only once am done with announced materials.
This month, there are 2 books that I have to set as priority 

This one which a friend had offered and would be a great way to start the year, partially because it's short, partially because 2017's first 2 books were Harry Potter 6 & 7, and it'd be funny to start 2 years with the same stuff. 

 > Review 
















Second priority (Charrière's book), another friend had lent me a couple months ago and that I had set aside. It'd be my first book in French this year, and I want to at least this Yourcenar's book, offered by her brother... 







Update : as I couldn't get into the story, I gave up on Charrière's novel.

At some point this month, I'm supposed to receive also this book and shall start reading as soon as I can after that


The biggest reading project of the year is this 7-book box-set my wife offered last week. It corresponds to the 4 novels and 56 short stories Doyle originally wrote, in this beautiful set, which will allow me to avoid having a huge volume at hand for the task ahead. 
Update : the review for this first story, a study in scarlet, in book 1. 



And any other book that I borrow from friends or library ; buy, or have bought and have been on our shelves may be read at some point. For example, Tolkien's history of Middle-Earth series have been waiting with this second book already on shelf, and the rest to be bought. 





We have been re-watching Star Trek DS9. 
Yesterday's first episode of 2018 was S5EP03, Nor the battle to the strong. and thus we have just under 3 seasons left. 

















As announced last month, we have a plan of re-watching The Dark Crystal, when we can coordinate with a friend who hasn't seen it yet to come over. 





I'd also like to watch more movies in 2018 than I did in 2017, as I often borrowed DVD from the library but hadn't got around to watch most of them in time and had to return. I'll make efforts towards correcting this, rather soon. 

Email Post

Comments

Post a Comment