Wednesday, August 31, 2005

The Fetch of Mardy Watt - Charles Butler

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I started reading Charles Butler's The Fetch of Mardy Watt during my half hour lunch break at work today - and finished it about an hou...
Tuesday, August 30, 2005

A Lecture and a Poem

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This is a combination post as I'm newly returned from my trip to Gloucestershire and too tired to think too much, so I'm going to sh...
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Monday, August 29, 2005

Northern Storm - Juliet E McKenna

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Whilst it is not wholly necessary to have read Juliet E McKenna's The Swordsman's Oath in order to understand or enjoy Southern Fir...
Sunday, August 28, 2005

Southern Fire - Juliet E McKenna

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Juliet E McKenna’s Southern Fire is the first book in a series of a four, "The Aldabreshin Compass". It is set in the same world...
Saturday, August 27, 2005

Maggie Furey's 'Artefacts of Power' series - reprise

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I finished this "Sword and Sorcery" series last night. Maggie Furey’s ‘Artefacts of Power’ series features four Artefacts, one for...
Friday, August 26, 2005

News

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Just a brief note here - since theoretically I'm on holiday - I've been awarded a grant from the SF Foundation, which will enable me...
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Thursday, August 25, 2005

Home to Gloucestershire

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Though I was not born in Gloucestershire (like my brother) and though I no longer live there, for me going to Gloucestershire is going home....
Wednesday, August 24, 2005

Buried in Books

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As a continuation, of sorts, to my post yesterday, someone sent this article from the LA Times to the Child_Lit list, where we've been ...
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Tuesday, August 23, 2005

Tower of Books

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I keep this pile of library books in my room - it's my pending pile - actually, it's more of a tower at the moment as I've some ...
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Monday, August 22, 2005

Books at any hour

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I love this idea that the Parisians have come up - it's a "Livre à toute heure" or a book-at-any-hour machine. Five of the ha...
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Sunday, August 21, 2005

P-CON III

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Well, well, this is my 50th post - and frankly I'm amazed I've managed to post 50 days in a row ! There have been days when I've...
Saturday, August 20, 2005

Forthcoming Films

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I'm vaguely looking forward to the new Harry Potter film in November - having had mixed reactions to the first three (I hated the first ...
Friday, August 19, 2005

Nimbus-2003 Proceedings

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Finally, after 2 years of waiting, the Nimbus-2003 Harry Potter Conference (at which my paper Harry Potter: A Universal Hero ? was presente...
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Thursday, August 18, 2005

The Tyranny of Reading

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Hester Lacey has an interesting piece in the Guardian newspaper today from which I shall quote the most thought-provoking bits (the full ar...
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Wednesday, August 17, 2005

Maggie Furey's 'Artefacts of Power' series

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I have started picking up fantasy books at random in the library - this is safer than picking up books at random in the bookshops, since I c...
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Tuesday, August 16, 2005

Fantasy series

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Fantasy is famous for its mult-part series, starting with Tolkien and progressing to the likes of Robert Jordan's seemingly endless Whee...
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Monday, August 15, 2005

Destiny and Morality

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I have found a further twist on the choosing one's path/accepting one's destiny dichotomy . In Garth Nix's The Keys to the Kingd...
Sunday, August 14, 2005

Ursula Le Guin & Garth Nix: a reprise

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I finished reading Ursula Le Guin's Changing Planes yesterday, which I mentioned here on Friday . It's an odd book, but only in the...
Saturday, August 13, 2005

Reader and Critic

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I've noticed that people who are passionate readers and don't know me, or don't know me very well, often regard me with some sus...
Friday, August 12, 2005

Odd, Surreal and Ambiguous Books

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I seem to have read rather a lot of ambiguous, or even downright surreal, books so far this year. First there was the frankly scary Timon...
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