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https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c39jj9vkr34o "Scientists have found new but tentative evidence that a faraway world orbiting another star may be home to life." Indirect evidence, but quite a bit of a big deal nonetheless.

The guy brings Peter, Peter's mum and Nightingale - and the dozens of others - to life as completely distinct characters, with just his voice. He's like the one man VA equivalent of Sgt Pepper.

KHS is one of my two favourite narrators, together with Steven Pacey, who narrates most of Joe Abercrombie's books (and used to play Tarrant in the last two series of Blake's 7). Anyway, KHS also narrated "A Wizard of Earthsea" and "The Farthest Shore", and does the incredible job you'd expect...

I recently listened to The Children of Hurin, read by Christopher Lee. It was as epic as you'd imagine. Now I'm on The Silmarillion, read by Andy Serkis. Different, but also excellent.

Have you read/listened to The Rivers of London, narrated by Kobna Holdbrook-Smith? They're my favourites, together with The First Law. The Lies of Locke Lamora is also excellent, and Memory, Sorrow and Thorn by Tad Williams.

Joe Abercrombie has some excellent names for the grimdark sword & sorcery genre. Names that you can actually imagine people being called as they scrape the dung from their boots. Logen Ninefingers, Caul Shivers, Shy South, Curnden Craw, Shev and Javre. Even Sand dan Glokta and Jezal dan Luthar...

Did anyone else have no clue what was happening in the last 20 minutes or so of Ep. 5? It was too dark to see what was going on.

My guilty pleasure used to be "Big Time Rush". No clue why.

As they grow, they probably flee the Nest.

Dual shielding, hehehe...

Based on his level of output over the past decade, I don't think there's much risk of that anyway.

Not particularly great ones, anyway.

I started it a few years ago and got halfway through it. I can't remember exactly what I disliked about it, but I really did. Either the prose was too much tell and not enough show, or else the main character felt like a Mary Sue.

To me, first-person present tense always comes across as teen wish fulfilment. Like they're narrating their daydream or fantasy.

I think it became a thing when Stephen King wrote in "On Writing" that adverbs are bad. Except he uses them himself too (apparently; it's been ages since I read anything by him).

And indicates that they never actually read the book, where he's called "the Creature" (you know, as in "create", the whole premise of the book being Man aping God's work?). And Kurtz from Heart of Darkness a bogeyman? An awful person, definitely, but the narrator spends half the book looking...

With these things, I always get the impression that they're based mostly on "Look how many literary books I've read!"

Or they were just wiping the slate clean.

I'm just checking them out on Kobo, and they're only EUR 2.99 each, or free with Kobo Plus. I'll give them a try.

A nap sounds pretty good.