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Matthew Brown edited the blog post Can you think of any ways to turn something comforting into something horrific? in the group The Muse of Last Resort: 2 years, 4 months ago
If you love horror (writing or reading it) then you know that some of the most effective horror turns something comforting or safe into something menacing or horrific. What safe to horrific ideas can you suggest?
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Blog: Books I Read in April from A Little Blog of Books in the group Book bloggers 2 years, 4 months ago
How Words Get Good: The Story of Making a Book by Rebecca Lee offers a fascinating look at the journey of making a book from initial idea in the author’s head to […]
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Blog: Word of the Day – Skirl from For Reading Addicts in the group Book bloggers 2 years, 4 months ago
The post Word of the Day – Skirl appeared first on For Reading Addicts.
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Blog: ‘The poems began to dance among themselves’: curating a fresh mixtape of Black British poetry from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 2 years, 4 months ago
A companion to 1998’s The Fire People, Kayo Chingonyi’s anthology creates a space for a new generation of voices to express the wide range of their workPutting tog […]
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Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post Sewerage in sea but we get blue flags anyway? in the group Thanet Star: 2 years, 4 months ago
How did we get so many blue flags when Southern Water keep discharging into the sea?
This year, Thanet received seven (7) blue flags and there (3) seaside awards for our beaches. That seems odd given how many […]
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Blog: Poisoned legacy: why the future of power can’t be nuclear from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 2 years, 4 months ago
Mounting tensions with Russia, a global pandemic and a reckless scramble for nuclear energy: the echoes of 1957 are alarming – we would do well to heed themOn 10 O […]
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Blog: Tom Gauld on the author meeting the digital marketing team – cartoon from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 2 years, 4 months ago
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Blog: I Read Books: Zothique from Night of the Hats in the group Night of the Hats 2 years, 4 months ago
Zothique Clark Ashton Smith wrote a series of fantasy stories set in Zothique, which is supposedly a far future continent of Earth. They tend to revolve around […]
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Blog: Reward System by Jem Calder review – slaves to the algorithm from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 2 years, 4 months ago
Six interlinked stories from a superb new writer about young Londoners and their smartphone addictionsIn recent years, much of the most innovative work in the […]
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Matthew Brown edited the blog post Why is Ramsgate so dangerous? in the group Thanet Star: 2 years, 4 months ago
Ramsgate is a hotspot for crime but especially Violence and sexual offences. It is one of the most dangerous towns in Kent rating well above the Kent average.
Ramsgate crime statistics.
No crimes […]
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Blog: Word of the Day – Lorgnette from For Reading Addicts in the group Book bloggers 2 years, 4 months ago
The post Word of the Day – Lorgnette appeared first on For Reading Addicts.
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Blog: Meg Mason: ‘Jane Austen taught me there really is such a thing as reading for pleasure’ from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 2 years, 4 months ago
The author on being inspired by Nina Stibbe and taking comfort in the works of Nancy MitfordMy earliest reading memoryMy mother reading me Terry Furchgott’s P […]
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Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post The secret of the river in the group The Muse of Last Resort: 2 years, 4 months ago
There is a place along a river with a secret. The place is a long walk from the town, hard to get to, and rarely visited. The secret is that swimming in the water there heals all diseases and restores […]
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Blog: Very Cold People by Sarah Manguso review – chilly legacy of abuse from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 2 years, 4 months ago
This unnerving debut novel about emotional scars being inflicted down the generations reads like witness testimonyWell into a career that encompasses poetry, […]
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Blog: Liner Notes for Neighbourhood Watch from Night of the Hats in the group Night of the Hats 2 years, 4 months ago
The Liner Notes for my story Neighbourhood Watch.**** Back before this was Strandbridge Tales I invented Hubert Benson, the good-hearted very conventional retired […]
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Blog: House Arrest: Pandemic Diaries by Alan Bennett review – typical Bennett on atypical times from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 2 years, 4 months ago
The octogenarian playwright documents the baffling absurdities of lockdown with his usual flair It is 16 August 2020 and Alan Bennett and his partner are on their […]
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Blog: Solving my villager’s impotence problems from Lord Matt (old geek) in the group Matthew D. Brown (Author) 2 years, 4 months ago
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Matthew Brown edited the blog post Solving my villager’s impotence problems in the group The Fantastic (Group) of Lord Matt, Super Geek: 2 years, 4 months ago
My villagers are suffering from impotency. This was my quest to solve that.
Love, love, fail
Instead of making baby villagers, my breeders ended the love hearts session with frustration particles […]
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Blog: The Geometer Lobachevsky by Adrian Duncan review – an atmospheric tableau from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 2 years, 4 months ago
This tale of a Soviet mathematician working in rural 50s Ireland is bogged down by a lack of narrative impetusFor anyone who’s ever bemoaned the parochialism of c […]
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Blog: Journey of Humanity by Oded Galor review – inequality explained? from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 2 years, 4 months ago
An study of the factors behind economic growth attempts to reveal the ‘great cogs’ that drive developmentFor most of human history, we were caught in a sta […]
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Blog: I Read Stories: The Genius And The Devil by Stephanie Feldman from Night of the Hats in the group Night of the Hats 2 years, 4 months ago
The Genius And The Devil by Stephanie Feldman in Catapult When she was in college the Genius sold her soul to the Devil, asking to be the greatest artist of her […]
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Blog: 59. Queen of The Tiles from Becky's Book Reviews in the group Book bloggers 2 years, 4 months ago
Queen of the Tiles. Hanna Alkaf. 2022. 320 pages. [Source: Library]First sentence: When Trina Low walks by, the world holds its breath.Premise/plot: Najwa Bakri, […]
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Matthew Brown commented on the post, The Power of Visual Descriptions, on the groupblog Thanet Creative 2 years, 4 months ago
The action to description ratio is an art form that I have yet to master. I try to aim for something like the same as published authors who have a similar readership. I’m not sure I have mastered that yet either.
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Matthew Brown commented on the post, The Power of Visual Descriptions, on the groupblog Thanet Creative 2 years, 4 months ago
That is a great tip. Get the characters on stage before looking at the set dressing (to use theatre as a metaphor).
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Matthew Brown commented on the post, Writers’ night is back – now in The Mulberry Tree, on the groupblog Thanet Creative 2 years, 4 months ago
Awesome, it’d be lovely to meet you. There is some on-street parking nearby and I usually see a few parking spaces.