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Blog: question, i’m reading a copy of Smoke and Mirrors i found at a garage sale and ran into a piece of slang i’m not familiar with, in Troll Bridge you wrote “His hair was long, like one of my sister’s little plastic gonks, and his eyes bulged. He was naked and his penis hung from the bush of gonk hair between his legs.” urban dictionary has Not been useful, i texted the groupchat to help me play Guess The Weird British Slang and we were at a loss, what the hell is a gonk? from
Neil Gaiman in the group Fans of Neil Gaiman 2 years, 8 months agoThis is where I’d normally say, Google. Google is your friend. But Googling “Gonks” would give you the wrong thing, because lots of toys have sprung up in the l […]
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Blog: sir have you read Neuromancer by William Gibson? from
Neil Gaiman in the group Fans of Neil Gaiman 2 years, 8 months agoI have.There’s an edition of Neuromancer as part of Penguin Galaxy’s SF Classics, with an introduction by me in it.
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Blog: Isabel Allende: ‘I have been displaced most of my life’ from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 2 years, 8 months agoThe Chilean American author on the allure of Arabian Nights, the inspiration of Gabriel García Márquez and the heartbreak of Jack LondonMy earliest reading m […]
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I dream of water in the group The Muse of Last Resort: 2 years, 8 months agoEvery night when you go to sleep you have a vivid dream that you are struggling to stay above the water of a slightly choppy sea with no boat or land in sight. When you wake up, you and your bed are soaked with briny water.
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Blog: The Art of Personal Writing that’s Not Self-Indulgent from
Copyblogger in the group Copy Blogger Fans 2 years, 8 months agoWhenever I talk about personal writing, and I advise that you should write for a specific group of people to…
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Blog: Mercia’s Take by Daniel Wiles review – a brilliant debut from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 2 years, 8 months agoThe hand-to-mouth life of a 19th-century miner in the Black Country shows the human cost of the industrial revolutionMichael Cash is a hewer – he descends into t […]
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Colin Blaze gets a box in the group The Muse of Last Resort: 2 years, 8 months agoOn a slow Sunday afternoon, a substitute postman finally figured out how to deliver a parcel to the office of Colin Blaze. This in itself was impressive but it was nothing compared to the weird collection of […]
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Blog: I Read Books: Lumious from
Night of the Hats in the group Night of the Hats 2 years, 8 months agoLuminous A short story collection by science fiction writer Greg Egan. Egan is very high concept by which I mean his stories are driven by the scientific ideas, […]
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Blog: 24. How Not to Fall In Love from
Becky's Book Reviews in the group Book bloggers 2 years, 8 months agoHow Not to Fall in Love. Jacqueline Firkins. 2021. [December] 239 pages. [Source: Library]First sentence: I’m kneeling in front of Frosty the Snowman’s […]
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michaelvj60 became a registered member 2 years, 8 months ago
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Blog: New Animal by Ella Baxter review – bleak comedy of sex and estrangement from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 2 years, 8 months agoA mortuary makeup artist negotiates the landscape of 21st-century sexuality in this sharp debutNever mind new animals: Ella Baxter’s debut novel looks at first t […]
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Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post
Of Andipardmin born in the group The Muse of Last Resort: 2 years, 8 months agoYou have invested great efforts into fitting in where you live. You have good friends, a decent job, and nothing remotely strange has happened near you for some years.
However, you do not come from this world. […]
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Blog: I Watch Films: Terror (1978) from
Night of the Hats in the group Night of the Hats 2 years, 8 months agoTerror (1978) The unhelpfully named Terror opens with a woman accused of witchcraft being hunted down and killed. This turns out to have been a film made by James […]
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Harryclaus became a registered member 2 years, 8 months ago
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Blog: 23. I, Robot from
Becky's Book Reviews in the group Book bloggers 2 years, 8 months agoI, Robot. Isaac Asimov. 1950. 304 pages. [Source: Library]First sentence: I looked at my notes and I didn’t like them. I’d spent three days at U.S. Robots and mig […]
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Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post
Colin Blaze and the complexity of history in the group The Muse of Last Resort: 2 years, 8 months agoColin Blaze was grabbing a coffee with his assistant Harry. This in itself was not unusual. What was strange was that the police chief marched in, chewed Blaze a new one for failing to hand in paperwork, and then […]
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Blog: Monster Of The Week 109: ColdUncaringUniverse from
Night of the Hats in the group Night of the Hats 2 years, 8 months agoMonster Of The Week 109 is ColdUncaringUniverse, a bit standoffish, difficult to get close to, doesn’t judge you at all, in the end a monster that tells us more […]
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Nancy Taylor became a registered member 2 years, 8 months ago
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Blog: 22. Operation Do-Over from
Becky's Book Reviews in the group Book bloggers 2 years, 8 months agoOperation Do-Over. Gordon Korman. 2022. [January] 304 pages. [Source: Library]First sentence: I’m standing next to the bumper cars when the first bolt of lightning […]
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Blog: Margaret Atwood joins writers calling for urgent action over missing Rwandan poet from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 2 years, 8 months agoMore than 100 authors from around the world have written to the Rwandan president about the case of Innocent Bahati, who disappeared a year ago todayMargaret […]
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Blog: The big idea: can foreign policy be feminist? from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 2 years, 8 months agoTying gender to military intervention has often been disastrous. Is there another way?From Laura Bush’s famous radio speech declaring that the invasion of A […]
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Blog: Poem of the week: An Ode to Himself by Ben Jonson from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 2 years, 8 months agoJonson’s poetic response to bad reviews of his plays by ‘wolf’ and ‘ass’ praises poetry and urges a return to deeper sources of inspirationAn Ode to Himself
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Neil Gaiman in the group Fans of Neil Gaiman 2 years, 8 months agoEasily the best thing about being 15 in the UK was the weekly arrival of the Muppet Show. Especially because we got 2 minutes every week that Americans never […]
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Blog: Mr Gaiman. It’s a weird question to ask you I know but I can’t write my thesis. I love writing anything else. I love writing my fanfictions, and scenarios but whenever I try to do my uni thesis I just can’t. Can you suggest anything? I need serious help because deadline is coming very soon. And I can’t get graduate if I don’t send the thesis. from
Neil Gaiman in the group Fans of Neil Gaiman 2 years, 8 months agoI’m in the same place with an introduction I’m meant to be writing, for a very fancy publisher, for some books I love by an author I love. It’s so late it’s […]
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Blog: why would Amazon not want our man!!? from
Neil Gaiman in the group Fans of Neil Gaiman 2 years, 8 months agoFor the same reason that lots of people on Tumblr got upset when David Tennant & Michael Sheen was first announced, and for the same reason that they had never […]
