Sunday, November 12, 2006

The Revenge of Samuel Stokes - Penelope Lively

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Penelope Lively's The Revenge of Samuel Stokes is akin to her The Ghost of Thomas Kempe ( review ), but also different. Here the ghost...

An Introduction to Terry Pratchett

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Terry Pratchett is the astonishingly popular author-creator of the Discworld ( TM ) series; reportedly 1% of every book sold in the UK is wr...
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Saturday, November 11, 2006

Carnival of Children's Literature 9 - Giving Thanks

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A Readable Feast is hosting the Ninth Carnival of Children's Literature on the theme of "Giving Thanks" - specifically "...
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An Introduction to Charles Butler

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Charles Butler started writing fiction long before he became a lecturer. He wrote his first full-length book when he was eighteen, the summ...

An Introduction to Juliet E McKenna

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Juliet E McKenna is one of my favourite living writers of fantasy for grown ups who has so far written two series of fantasy novels. The Ta...

The Devil's Footsteps - E E Richardson

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One in fire, two in blood, Three in storm and four in flood, Five in anger, six in hate, Seven fear and evil eight. Nine in sorrow, ten in p...
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Friday, November 10, 2006

An occasional series

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Back in June, I wrote a guest column for Susan over at Chicken Spaghetti that was An Introduction to Terry Pratchett for the uninitiated. ...
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Poetry Friday 23: Remembrance 2

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Continuing my theme for November of poems for Remembrance, I'd like to offer the following poems. Break of Day in the Trenches The dark...
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Wednesday, November 08, 2006

Random Thoughts

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Normally at this time of year (my natal anniversary), I get all gloomy and start wondering what on earth I think I am doing, trying to make ...
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Dark Horse - Marcus Sedgwick

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Marcus Sedgwick is turning into one of my favourite YA fantasy authors. His output is astonishingly diverse, in terms of settings for his no...
Tuesday, November 07, 2006

Victory - Susan Cooper

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Susan Cooper's Victory is a mixture of historical and realistic fiction. Sam Robbins is an 11 year old farm boy in Kent whose uncle tak...
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Firefly Quote of the Week

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Zoe : Jayne. This is something the Captain has to do for himself. Mal : No! No, it's not! Zoe : Oh. ("War Stories", Season 1)
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Monday, November 06, 2006

Does being a reviewer affect my reading ?

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I've been thinking about this quite a bit since Jen Robinson posted about it on her Blog last week. An intense discussion has taken pla...
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Sunday, November 05, 2006

Dawn of Fear - Susan Cooper

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Susan Cooper's Dawn of Fear is a fictionalised autobiographical account of what it's like to be a child in WW2. The only real ficti...
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New books I want to read

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One of the painful pleasures of reading other people's Blogs is finding out about new books that are either (a) not yet out in the UK, o...
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Saturday, November 04, 2006

Finding Forrester - Movie Review

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It's not often I review a movie here that's not either Fantasy/SF or for children, but the coming-of-age movie from Gus van Sant, Fi...
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Scholar's Blog Spoiler Zone Update

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There's a review of Scott Westerfeld's Blue Noon over on the Scholar's Blog Spoiler Zone .

The Snow Walker Trilogy - Catherine Fisher

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I waited to review Catherine Fisher's The Snow Walker Trilogy all in one go because the three books are relatively short (under 200 pag...
Friday, November 03, 2006

Poetry Friday 22: Remembrance 1

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Since this year is the 90th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme, I'm devoting November to Remembrance and will be posting poems of th...
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Thursday, November 02, 2006

Gothic! Ten Original Dark Tales

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The ten "original dark tales" in Gothic! Ten Original Dark Tales (which is edited by Deborah Noyes) are as follows: "Lungewa...