Grïgnyr the Ecordian by Geoff Bottone

A while back I decided that I should blog about each book I read. Some of the other bloggers I enjoy do that, and it seems like a great way to both share your “reviews”1 and to keep track of your reading2. Then that drifted to become only the fiction books: I pretty-much alternate between fiction and nonfiction in my reading. And then that drifted into… well… forgetting about it entirely and blogging about other things instead3 So let’s see what I can remember of the year’s fiction so far, starting with… Grïgnyr the Ecordian: A Retelling of The Eye of Argon, by Geoff Bottone. Which probably takes some explanation all by itself. Back before we had kids, the rest of my polycule and I spent a few years (e.g. 2011, 2012) hosting what we called Argh! It Burns! Night on or near Burns Night. Burns Night, of course, is an opportunity to eat haggis, drink whisky, and tell stories. Argh! It Burns Night, by contrast, was an opportunity to eat haggis, drink whisky, and… read out terrible…