A Tie and A Bishop
Yesterday I felt good getting a ramble out for the first time in months, so I figured I’d attempt to create a streak. Sure, two in a row is not much of a streak, but it’s twice as many rambles …
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Saving Your Child
Today’s ramble has a common theme running through it. I don’t always do this, and it just kinda happened, but I think it worked out. The theme centers around the concept that a parent will do almost anything to save …
The Rook Chapter 11 – Apex House (Part 2)
So from the first part of Chapter 11…emergency meeting called…lunch with Lady Linda Farrier…assessment of Thomas’ training or lack of her using her abilities…crazy use of Myfanwy’s powers on her driver… Now on to chapter 11 part 2 in which …
#Blaugust2019 the Second
Day one down and onto the second, Blaugustians are already producing tons of new content and I’m excited to see what everyone has to say. For me, day one was busy but I got some of the things I wanted …
The Rook Chapter 11 – Apex House (Part 1)
With an emergency meeting called by the Rooks because of the interrogation from chapter 6, it looks like Myfanwy will finally get to meet the rest of the Checquy Court. The problem is that not only are they faced with …
The Rook Chapter 9 – Belgian Alchemists
In my view, the most important thing we learned in the last chapter was that Gestalt does not like Toblerones, but we also learned that the spy they caught back in chapter 6 yelled about scouting for an invasion. This …
The Rook Chapter 5 – Controlling the Action
Heading in to chapter 5 of The Rook, I feel kinda a sense of relief. We got through our first meeting with Gestalt, in the last chapter, without any trouble and we confirmed that the interrogation we’re headed to is …
The Rook Chapter 4 – Meet Gestalt
Heading in to chapter 4 of The Rook by Daniel O’Malley, we’ve been given a purple folder view on our counterpart, Rook Gestalt, and I’m not sure I’d feel very comfortable meeting him. Not only is this basically the first …
First Days, Tedious Politics, and Hope
There are good reads and there are bad reads…The Rook chapter 3 turns out to be a pretty good one since we start to meet some of the other characters in the story. Who can be trusted and who is …
Supernatural Bugs and Too Many Comics
Today started out with our regular bug exterminator dropping by to spray around our yard to keep the number of nasties down and it quickly got busy. So busy in fact I didn’t have much time to throw together my …