Latest book received

[Commander Vyper]

Simon Pegg's auto-biography Nerd do Well. Got it from my wife for my birthday, very good indeed.

[Tomsche]

Received the 1 of 4 Excalibur Marvel miniseries issue today, which now means I have each and every issue of the original series, miniseries and `new` Excalibur 

[leonmallett]

Got the Mercs rulebook in the post yesterday.

But possibly way cooler if the Hellboy hardcover (vol. 1) that I received as a Christmas present from my wife.

[Bugsda]

"In Rommel's Backyard" A memoir of the LRDG
"Commando" A boer's journal by Deneys Reitz
"The Real Deadwood" by John Ames
"The Authentic Life of Billy The Kid" by Pat Garrett
"Sioux Dawn" and "Red Cloud's Revenge" By Terry C Johnston

Hoka Hey! It is a good day to read 

[abhorsen950]

On Christmas day, A Journeys end was in my stocking. Very pleased with this and began reading it this morning after I finished Down and Out in Paris and London.

[Wirelizard]

Big coffee-table book on Canadian aviation, from one of the relatives. Lots of period photos and really nice paintings of great moments in Canadian aviation, including lots of interwar & WW1 photos for inspiration - apparently one of the last intact Hawker Harts is in the Canadian Aviation Museum's collection.

One great painting of a RN flying boat attacking a zeppelin!

[Tomsche]

My monthly trip to Antwerps second hand bookstore `De Sleghte` yielded the following loot today:

Battlestar Galactica novelisation of the miniseries
Star Wars - Heir to the Empire volume 1
Star Wars - The Courtship of Princess Leia
Star Trek - Log 3
Stargate SG1 - Relativity
Buck Rogers - Arrival
Susan R. Matthews - Colony Fleet
Max Allan Collins - Waterworld (yes, that Costner vehicle)
Arthur C. Clarke - 2001: A Space odyssey
Leprechauns (the novel of the Colm Meaney flick)

Not a bad shopping lunch trip I must say 

[Steve F]

Caroline Alexander The War That Killed Achilles: The True Story of the Iliad - argues that Homer rejects the traditional values of epic heroism, and that this is embodied in Achilles' scepticism towards the idea that glory is worth dying for.

Neil R Storey & Molly Housego Women In The First World War - a profusely illustrated little Shire Publications book, drawing on the Imperial War Museum archives.  Should really be called British Women ..., though.

Neither is directly relevant to any of my current projects, but it all goes in the pot!

[Hammers]

Neither is directly relevant to any of my current projects, but it all goes in the pot!

Good expression to which I can totally relate. 

[AndrewBeasley]

The stories of Sherlock Holmes - Kindle version £0.00 

4 full books and 50+ short stories

Now should I start hunting for figures before I start to read, during or after...

[Pentaro]

The Three Wise Men were generous this year



Mungo Park, "Travels in the interior of Africa"

"Flashman and the Dragon" - after this one and "Abyssinia" I'll finish the whole series

Enrique Gómez Carrillo, "El Japón heroico y galante" (Gallant and heroic Japan) - a Guatemalan journalist describes pre-WW1 Japan, this is going to be a great read.

Plus, I read "Hellboy: The wild hunt". I really like Fegredo's art in this series, but it's the same story we've read again and again and I found it silly and boring. The previous story, "The crooked man" with Corben was one of my favorite "Hellboys" though.

[Froggy the Great]

I just scored the first six books of the Time-Life series on WW2 for $5 at a library sale.

[Hammers]

I just scored the first six books of the Time-Life series on WW2 for $5 at a library sale.

I love that series.

[zemjw]

Almost received - one waiting for me at the Post Office and one in the mail

Sculpting Figures - Body Language by Mike Blank from Historex agents
Kevin Dallimore's Painting and Modelling Guide Master Class from Foundry (was on sale)

[archangel1]

Pleasantly surprised with this one.  I had no doubt about the quality of it but I wasn't sure whether it would simply be a photo gallery of their product.  It actually does give you some quite detailed modelling and painting tips and shows you them 'in action' through a series of good closeup photos.  One minor quibble, though - the text of some of the captions is hard to read, being white lettering on a pale background.