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I've just posted my review of Doctor Who season 3 episodes 12 and 13 "The Sound of Drums" and "The Last of the Time Lords" (the final two episodes) over on the Scholar's Blog Spoiler Zone.

Just a quick reminder that the discussion of Louis Sachar's The Boy Who Lost His Face has now started. Feel free to pop over and participate if you've read it.

I've just posted my review of Doctor Who season 3 episode 11 "Utopia" over on the Scholar's Blog Spoiler Zone.

Warning - this review contains spoilers of major proportions - more so than any other review I've written for season 3... You have been warned !

I've just posted my review of Doctor Who season 3 episode 10 "Blink" over on the Scholar's Blog Spoiler Zone.

Warning - this episode really is best viewed without any kind of advanced information, so be really, really sure you want spoilers before you read the review !

I've just posted my review of Doctor Who Season 3 episodes 8 and 9 "Human Nature" and "The Family of Blood" over on the Scholar's Blog Spoiler Zone. It's taken me the best part of a week as all my creativity was sucked out of me by the stresses over work.

I've just posted my review of Doctor Who Season 3 episode 7 "42" over on the Scholar's Blog Spoiler Zone. And it's posted only four days after the show aired (and two days after I got the disc) !

I've just posted my review of Linda Buckley-Archer's The Tar Man over on the Scholar's Blog Spoiler Zone.

I've just posted my review of Doctor Who Season 3 episode 6 "The Lazarus Experiment" over on the Scholar's Blog Spoiler Zone. Sorry, it did take two weeks to review after all, but that's partly because it took a week for the disc to get into my hands between the workmate who usually records it for me taking a week off work, and the Post Office deciding to keep the disc that an acquaintance had kindly sent me!

I've just posted a review of Catherine Fisher's Incarceron over on the Scholar's Blog Spoiler Zone.

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I've begun reading Linda Buckley-Archer's The Tar Man - so far, so good (nice bit of horse riding in the opening chapter !!) - but I honestly haven't got far with it yet as it's been a busy morning.

I've just (finally !) posted my review of Doctor Who Season 3 episode 4 and 5 -"Daleks in Manhattan" and "Evolution of the Daleks" over on the Scholar's Blog Spoiler Zone. (I promise not to take two weeks to post a review of "The Lazarus Experiment" !)

I've just posted a review of Malcolm Rose's over on the Scholar's Blog Spoiler Zone.

I won't be posting a review of Doctor Who's Season 3 episode 4, "Daleks In Manhattan" during next week, as it's the first of a two-parter (written by Helen Raynor - the first woman to write for New Who), so expect both "Daleks In Manhattan" and "Evolution of the Daleks" to be reviewed together the week after next.

Talking of the Daleks, users of the BBC Doctor Who website were recently polled to discover the scariest monsters in the Whoniverse - and the Daleks were voted number 1 (to my surprise since I find the Cybermen far more chilling!)

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In other news, I've been lucky enough to receive an ARC of Marcus Sedgwick's new YA book, Blood Red, Snow White which isn't out until July, from Waterstones.com. They recently did a draw for readers of their children's newsletter, to "win" a book to review on their website, and I got the book I wanted - and believe me, no one was more shocked than I was when it arrived in yesterday's mail ! The book is described as The Russian Revolution - fairy tale, spy thriller, love story - one man's life during the last days of the Romanovs. So far, it's fascinating reading - and totally like anything else Sedgwick has written (not that any of his books are similar to any of the others).

I've just (finally) posted my review of Doctor Who Season 3 episode 3 - "Gridlock" over on the Scholar's Blog Spoiler Zone.

I've just posted my review of Doctor Who Season 3 episode 2 - "The Shakespeare Code" over on the Scholar's Blog Spoiler Zone.

I've just posted a review of the Doctor Who Season 3 first episode "Smith and Jones" over on the Scholar's Blog Spoiler Zone. In fairness to anyone who intends to watch Doctor Who's third season but may not get to see the episodes yet, for whatever reason, reviews of the episodes will be posted over there each week.