Drood

  • Catch Up

    [tweetmeme source=”nettiewriter” http://www.URL.com] Hey, it’s been a while! How are you? Have you been on holiday? You’re looking good. I feel like you are an old friend I haven’t seen in months and that there is loads to catch up on. I haven’t posted much recently – all sorts of boring reasons for that –…

  • Drood by Dan Simmons

    [tweetmeme source=”nettiewriter” http://www.URL.com] The narrator of this epic tale (nearly 800 pages) is William Wilkie Collins, author of the Woman In White and friend of Charles Dickens.  When Dickens, his young mistress and her mother survive the Staplehurst Rail Disaster, he tells his friend about the atrocities he saw and how he tried to help.…