I'm moving away from this blog to a site of my own, which will also be a place where I load documents for gaming, and other purposes. The new URL is http://bowmanm.squarespace.com/ .

I've now caught up on the current novels, until Thursday, when the next three 11th Doctor novels come out on Kindle.

But, in the meantime, 5 DVDs come out tomorrow: The Space Museum and The Chase for the 1st Doctor, The Time Monster for the 3rd Doctor, and Underworld and The Horns of Nimon for the 4th Doctor. So I'll be busy.

With the end of Series 5, I'm now getting back to the Death March, kind of.

My first priority is to catch up on the current books. I had seven Tenth Doctor books and three Eleventh Doctor books (with three more coming out next week). To catch up on. Luckily all but two of them are available for Kindle, so I've picked them up from Amazon and reading them on the iPad and iPhone.

When caught up I'm going to get back to Fifth Doctor comics. Once I get to the Virgin New Adventures I'm going to look for scans and try reading them that way. I just don't think I'll be able to proceed far with any speed reading them in paper.

Tags: books, doctor who

I have finished "The Call of Cthulhu" and have now caught up with the H.P. Literary Podcast. At this point I'll read along with the podcast.

I've decided against converting The Complete Masks of Nyarlathotep to run with Trail of Cthulhu rules. It's not designed for that type of story. Instead, I'll give the group the choice of playing MoN with Call of Cthulhu rules or The Armitage Files, a Trail of Cthulhu campaign.

I have been reading Lovecraft in chronological order and have reached the midpoint, the 26th story out of 51. Of course, his later stories are longer, so I'm not at the midpoint by page count. I've really been enjoying this and will stop when I catch up to the podcast (they've just released their discussions on "The Call of Cthulhu") and then read along with them.

Tags: books, lovecraft

I have finally reading all of the Dresden Files novels and stories, as well as the roleplaying game. I'm still really liking the feel of reading on the iPad so am going to proceed with other things I can read on it.

I intend on running The Complete Masks of Nyarlathotep starting this summer, once the Masks of Nyarlathotep Companion comes out. I'll be using Trail of Cthulhu instead of Call of Cthulhu to run this.

Thus, I am re-reading Trail of Cthulhu, the Keeper's Resource Book, and Rough Magicks. I'll be reading all of these as PDFs using GoodReader.

In addition I'm going to re-read all of Lovecraft's stories, in chronological order (in the three Penguin collections edited by S.T. Joshi, in iBooks). After each story I'll read the relevant essay in Ken Hite's Tour de Lovecraft (in GoodReader) and listen to the appropriate podcast from the H.P. Lovecraft Literary Podcast.

Tags: books, lovecraft

Just finished watching "The Beast Below" and I liked it quite a bit. There wasn't anything that really stood out as an awesome moment, unlike "The Eleventh Hour", but it was a good story.

Tags: doctor who, tv

Before I watch today's episode I thought I'd mention that I loved "The Eleventh Hour," the first episode of Series 5 of new Who. Thanks to YouTube I got to watch it on my iPad (and then next week I'll be able to watch it again in HD thanks to iTunes). I was a little unsure of Matt Smith at the beginning of the episode, but by the end I loved his performance. I'm really looking forward to the rest of the series.

Tags: doctor who, tv

I'm going on a hiatus from the Death March. A planned hiatus, so I will be back on it.

I got an iPad this weekend and have some reading I was putting off until I got one: I want to read the new Dresden Files Roleplaying Game, Changes (the new Dresden Files novel), and Team of Rivals. All of these on the iPad so I can see whether I'm going to switch most of my reading there or not. Once I've completed these I will resume reading The Tides of Time (the collected Fifth Doctor comic strips).

Tags: doctor who

I've read the Fourth Doctor comics from Doctor Who Weekly and Doctor Who: A Marvel Monthly. These are contained in The Iron Legion, Dragon's Claw, and one story is in The Tides of Time (the Fifth Doctor collection). The stories start in 17 Oct. 1979 and run through Jan. 1982.

Virtually the entire 300+ pages were drawn by Dave Gibbons, so it's great to look at, and the collections are full-size, not comics size, so even better. The stories, though, are not my cup of tea, they're like 2000 AD crossed with Doctor Who. The stories later in the run are a bit more to my taste, but are much shorter (one or two issues instead of six).

Tags: comics, doctor who