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RonaldVioni became a registered member 1 year, 10 months ago
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Blog: Word of the Day – Haplology from For Reading Addicts in the group Book bloggers 1 year, 10 months ago
The post Word of the Day – Haplology appeared first on For Reading Addicts.
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Blog: 180. Can This Be Christmas? from Becky's Book Reviews in the group Book bloggers 1 year, 10 months ago
Can This Be Christmas? Debbie Macomber. 1998. 91 pages. [Source: Library]First sentence: A robust version of “Little Drummer Boy” played in the background as Len […]
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Blog: Juana the Mad: a short story by Tessa Hadley from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 1 year, 10 months ago
A chance encounter at a Christmas party churns up buried memories in this exclusive tale by the prize-winning novelistIt was at a Christmas party in the 1980s. I […]
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Blog: I Watch Films: Never Take Candy From A Stranger from Night of the Hats in the group Night of the Hats 1 year, 10 months ago
Never Take Candy From A Stranger A family move to a Canadian town, where the daughter is molested by an old man, who has her take off her clothes and dance in […]
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Blog: Word of the Day – Dittography from For Reading Addicts in the group Book bloggers 1 year, 10 months ago
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Jason Latnar replied to the topic What are your Christmas plans this year? in the forum General Chat 1 year, 10 months ago
Stress myself to death, eat myself into a coma, and then pass out in front of the TV.
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Blog: from Neil Gaiman in the group Fans of Neil Gaiman 1 year, 10 months ago
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Blog: from Neil Gaiman in the group Fans of Neil Gaiman 1 year, 10 months ago
batcoins:a-dot-dev:metfell:metfell:Only good thing about Christmas time is I get to hear carol of the bells all the time but the bad part is I have to act normal […]
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Blog: Books I Read in November from A Little Blog of Books in the group Book bloggers 1 year, 10 months ago
Traitor King by Andrew Lownie is an account of the events which followed Edward VIII’s abdication of the throne in 1936 to marry American divorcee Wallis S […]
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Blog: Word of the Day – Impecunious from For Reading Addicts in the group Book bloggers 1 year, 10 months ago
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Blog: Innocence, sex and war: Geoff Dyer on why the Go-Between is a novel for our time from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 1 year, 10 months ago
When the novelist finally read The Go-Between, almost 70 years after its publication, he shared the same perspective as the novel’s ‘60-odd’ narrator, findi […]
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Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post Platform tip: Supporting characters in the group Author Buzz HQ: 1 year, 10 months ago
This week, let’s focus on supporting characters. On your blog, post a short interview with a supporting character covering what they want (but can’t or can’t have), some memorable moments from their past, and a […]
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Blog: ‘I’ve been banned since the beginning’: Jason Reynolds talks to Joseph Coelho from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 1 year, 10 months ago
The UK children’s laureate and America’s ambassador for young people’s literature discuss finding a voice and how to get kids readingJoseph Coelho and Jason Reyno […]
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Blog: Tom Gauld’s gift finder – cartoon from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 1 year, 10 months ago
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Blog: I Read Stories: Pagpag by J Marcelo Borromeo in Bureau Dispatch from Night of the Hats in the group Night of the Hats 1 year, 10 months ago
Pagpag by J Marcello Boromeo in Bureau Dispatch When you go home from a funeral you should make a stop along the way. For coffee or food or just somewhere. This […]
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Blog: Is Mother Dead by Vigdis Hjorth – a daughter’s lament from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 1 year, 10 months ago
The author of the controversial Will and Testament reopens old wounds in this gripping account of family traumaLast time the Norwegian author Vigdis Hjorth wrote […]
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Blog: hey neil, i know that theres a very low chance youll see this considering how many asks you get but its worth a shot. im still in highschool and youve always been my biggest inspiration, but no matter all this advice i see to just “keep writing”, my issue is that i have yet to start writing the thing i really want to and my brain doesnt allow me to find inspiration for anything that isnt it. and if i do find inspiration, it feels incredibly unworthy of my time because of my dedication to this one story. i write other random fanfiction to things i enjoy, but my main focus for *years* with large worldbuilding and character arcs is just something i, no matter how hard i try, can manage to map out on a board to get a sense of how to really start it. im autistic, which makes it harder for me to understand vague “just start it and revise later”, “write random things”, “just begin it no matter how it sounds”. its hard to motivate myself and i suffer tremendously from the knowledge that time passing means time wasted. whats bad about having just one main focus is that i want it to be my lifes work, this series to explain this fixation ive had in my head since sixth grade, and i dont want to write anything else unless it could relate to it. i feel the constant pressure to write and yet i cannot, because i am not in the right state to begin that life project. how am i to guide myself in the direction of understanding writing more if i am stuck behind a wall of disinterest to write something else? i wish to inspire young readers the way you did me, but for years its plagued me knowing that i know so little. if you ever see this, i will be forever grateful. thank you for reading this. from Neil Gaiman in the group Fans of Neil Gaiman 1 year, 10 months ago
I don’t know. You either have to write other things to get good enough to start your special project, or you need to start your special project and learn how to g […]
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Blog: I was very fortunate to hear you read What You Need to be Warm in Austin this year. I hadn’t ever read it before, and now re-reading it, I can hear it in your voice and cadence. I think I’ll probably hear it every Christmas. I know you were inspired to write it for refugees, but I wanted to try and tell you how it struck something deep inside of me, as a trans person. I came out in 2014 and that same year my dad called to tell me to not make the 6 hour drive home to see him for Christmas, 2 nights before I was meant to leave, because they “didn’t know how to explain me to the children”. So, I didn’t. I had just met my future wife, and her friends and family welcomed me to various gatherings that cobbled together a chilly Christmas living in a new city. He died 5 years later, with a shaky relationship rebuilt between us in his final days. I heard your reading this year after almost 8 years fully being myself. When you read it, it first took me back to childhood Christmases. My grandmother running her upholstery business in her chilly garage, pneumatic staple machine whirring and biting late into the night. Depression era fudge recipe made with my granddad. Standing on frosty, crinkling grass in my dad’s yard, admiring the 50 lit snowflakes hanging in his yard before he returned us to our mom for Christmas. Cramming into the top layer of a bunk bed with my two younger brothers to try and settle enough to sleep before Christmas morning. Just one more minute snuggled there, warm and quiet, blissfully excited. The imagery of the refugees you wrote for strong in my mind, I sat in that theater on a sweaty May evening where you read, feeling the loss of these short, crisp moments. Thinking of friends I had known for 5 months, strangers, really, offering me a place to be, literally a blanket and a flashlight because “they were presents for a guy” who they didn’t really know yet. I nearly decided to stop being. But I didn’t, and your words, you have the right to be here, to be myself, happy, safe and warm, are with me now on this cold winter night in a life more full of love than I ever could have imagined. Thank you for your words, for your community, for reading them aloud so I can close my eyes and pretend to be a little kid, laying in a warm bed, drifting to sleep and knowing someone would check on me in the night. from Neil Gaiman in the group Fans of Neil Gaiman 1 year, 10 months ago
I’m glad you have love and even more glad that you love yourself.
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Blog: my apologies, but I wonder if tumblr has eaten my ask regarding if you could give me writing advice?
I could resend, if you’d like.
Well wishes! from Neil Gaiman in the group Fans of Neil Gaiman 1 year, 10 months ago
It probably hasn’t eaten it. But there are, as I type this, 83,957 questions I haven’t answered yet. The odds are always against your question ever getting answered.
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Bundeslok became a registered member 1 year, 10 months ago
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Blog: Hi Neil ❤️ Why do good people suffer more than others? from Neil Gaiman in the group Fans of Neil Gaiman 1 year, 10 months ago
You’d have to define good, suffer and others. Most of the things that make life hard will happen to most of us. All of us are going to die, lots of us are going t […]
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Blog: Hello Mr. Gaiman! I am currently rereading The Graveyard Book to my young cousins (I read it once a long time ago so I don’t remember anything about it). May I ask what your deal with Victor Hugo is? (Not sure if you’ve answered a question like this before so forgive me if you have). I notice you made him a ghoul. Why? I don’t know much about him but from what I know he wasn’t very morally objectionable. So was he or do you just have a personal thing against him? Thank you for your time. from Neil Gaiman in the group Fans of Neil Gaiman 1 year, 10 months ago
I didn’t make Victor Hugo a ghoul. The ghouls named themselves after people. I have now forgotten if it was ever explicitly explained in the book what the s […]
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Gabrielonege became a registered member 1 year, 10 months ago
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Blog: from Neil Gaiman in the group Fans of Neil Gaiman 1 year, 10 months ago
The Metatron is at the top, but he wouldn’t actually show up on an organisational chart. He’s just above everyone, and below God. Then Gabriel. Then the other Fan […]