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Since coming to Kingston, Amazon has consistently impressed me, leading to increased purchases from them.
Whaddya think? Did I overdo it?
I think I may just miss Amazon most of all when I go home.

Royal Assassin is the second book in the Farseer Trilogy, a review of the first book, Assassin’s Apprentice, can be found here.
The story follows FitzChivalry after the ending of Assassin’s Apprentice and plunges him back into his world at Buckkeep amidst Regal’s ambitions for the throne, the Red-Ship Raiders, more Forged Ones and his love [...]

After finishing reading A Clash Of Kings by George R. R. Martin, I was in the mood for some good fantasy and so I crowdsourced for recommendations. Robin Hobb’s Farseer Trilogy appeared too many times to be ignored, so I hopped on to Amazon.ca and gave it a go.
When I got the book, two things [...]

A blog is supposed to be about me. I realise I share a lot about my passions: books, music, entertainment and comic books/graphic novels, but perhaps not a whole lot about myself. So here’s my first blog post about it.
I consider myself very much a kid of the ’80s and the ’90s. Not just because [...]

So the quote from earlier today actually came from the only Heroes book in existence (thus far) by Aury Wallington called “Saving Charlie“, which tells the story “in between episodes” way back in season one, when Hiro went back in time to save Charlie from Sylar (or as referred to in the book, Brain Man)
I [...]

Unlike in the US (and arguably back home), the Canadian bookstores aren’t pimping the “Twilight” series for all their worth.
In the always-fun Film 240 class, we were shown the trailer for the “Twilight” movie, opening later this year:

Afterwhich, we were polled on whether we would watch this movie, to which the answer was overwhelmingly no. [...]

My Amazon Package Has Arrived! from Daryl Tay on Vimeo.

Since I posted up details about the party, I’ve gotten numerous requests for the yearly wishlist to go up. So here comes the shameless time of the year, although when you think about it it’s not that shameless. I just have enough mugs and photo frames accumulated from previous year’s birthdays. So something actually useful [...]

“The man in black fled across the desert…. and the gunslinger followed”
With these words I first entered the first book of Stephen King’s Dark Tower series, The Gunslinger. I picked it up last year partially because I knew Marvel was doing a graphic novel and partially because apparently a lot of the Lost mythology is [...]