Loudmouthman

Blogday! again ?

It rolls around so quickly doesnt it ?

Here are my recommended  go reads , must reads and do reads from my reader in no order of preference.

Gias Blog
Her smart, concise and wide ranging content reflects her own  interests and passion in science, entertainment and geekery.There is little I dont find myself nodding in agreement with or bookmarking for retrieval later.

Sizemore
Mike, aka Sizemore , writes about movies, books, tech and London with style that makes designers of Apple products look like 3yr old pottery students. You know that image works better in my head than in my post.

Ourman inside
Roll up all the presenters of The Gadget Show and give them a dog and you have got Christian Payne. Whilst his blog is not specifically focused on tech I think if you watch and listen to his work you’ll see he drives technology to deliver his content.

Social Media Business Strategy by Chris Brogan
The man , the machine , the blog post-o-matic and where most content churned out may bland and and become didactic with age and repition,  Chris Brogans  continues to refine and stay relative and consistent. Theres probably a  reference to Fine Wine which I could fit in there but im saving that for a post about Gary Vaynerchuck.

Web Strategy by Jeremaih Owyang
If there was one person I could ask to spend some time following and learning from then  honest to gods Jeremaih would be it. His more recent posting , Get Noticed is yet another example of paying attention and learning from ideas.

Thankss for reading.

I am not afraid to confess that when I read fiction I like it to be more fantasy than reality based . Indeed Imuch of the content gracing my bookshelves is a fair amount of Sword, Sorcery and Spacecraft paperbacks.

So I have Sizemore the more recent collection to my bookshelves.

A Darkness Forged In Fire : Book one of The Iron Elves by Chris Evans is the story of Elves who shunned by their own race because they are marked by the Shadow Monarch choose to serve in the Human armies to seek pay for the sins of the heritage. Actually theres an awful lot of backstory and exposition. Basically the Iron part is that they tend to use Iron more than Wood which is apparently frowned upon by most of their peers.

So far so sword and sorcery.

If your a fan or the Robert Jordan , Bernard Cornwell style of writing specifically with a militaristic bent extended only by overly long descriptive renderings of how a horse is walking or how a Shako ( yes I had to look it up ) was tilted on someones head, then this is going to be your book.

One short comment about Elves; I have yet to read a fantasy novel in which Elves are anything other than Humans with pointy ears and a “namby pamby” green theme running through everything from their outfits to their housing. This book did not change that view. If it wasn’t occasionally driven home that the main protagonist had a thing about an oak tree it wouldn’t have mattered.