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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 3 years, 1 month agoThis 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 3 years, 1 month agoThe 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 3 years, 1 month agoThe 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) 3 years, 1 month agoSolving my villager’s impotence problemsView On WordPress
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Solving my villager’s impotence problems in the group The Fantastic (Group) of Lord Matt, Super Geek: 3 years, 1 month agoMy 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 3 years, 1 month agoThis 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 3 years, 1 month agoAn 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 3 years, 1 month agoThe 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 3 years, 1 month agoQueen 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 3 years, 1 month agoThe 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 3 years, 1 month agoThat 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 3 years, 1 month agoAwesome, it’d be lovely to meet you. There is some on-street parking nearby and I usually see a few parking spaces.
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Blog: Freedom Art Competition for 13 to 18 year-olds (free) from
Thanet Creative Writers in the group Thanet Creative: Writers 3 years, 1 month agoFreedom Art Competition for 13 to 18 year-olds (free)UCA is inviting young designers and artists from Kent and Meadway to enter the 2022 YouCreate Competition. […]
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Freedom Art Competition for 13 to 18 year-olds (free) in the group Thanet Creative: Writers: 3 years, 1 month agoUCA is inviting young designers and artists from Kent and Meadway to enter the 2022 YouCreate Competition. Prizes include a £100 Amazon voucher and a bespoke creative workshop. Additionally, your work may be […]
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Blog: 58. Inheritance (American Royals 0.5) from
Becky's Book Reviews in the group Book bloggers 3 years, 1 month agoInheritance: American Royals Prequel. Katharine McGee. May 2022. 84 pages. [Source: Library]First sentence: Royals: they’re just like us. You don’t actually […]
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Blog: I Watch Films: House Of Usher from
Night of the Hats in the group Night of the Hats 3 years, 1 month agoHouse Of Usher We’re back in the House of Usher! This is 10 years on from the previous film we watched. No framing story, a simple four hander (Vincent Price as R […]
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Blog: 57. Death on a Deadline from
Becky's Book Reviews in the group Book bloggers 3 years, 1 month agoDeath on a Deadline (Homefront News #2) Joyce St. Anthony. 2022. [November] 304 pages (guess). [Source: Review copy]First sentence: “Clark Gable is coming to […]
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Story Shout – an Open Mention story suggestion in the group The Muse of Last Resort: 3 years, 1 month agoI am pleased to announce Story Shout. Story Shout is a part of the Muse of Last Resort website where you can give your stories a shout out via Webmentions.
This blog post is both to announce Story Shout and to […]
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Jason Latnar replied to the topic Can anyone give me some Reddit tips in the forum General Chat 3 years, 1 month ago
Reddit – post stuff people like and comment interestingly on other people’s posts
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Blog: Bono to release memoir about ‘the people, places and possibilities’ of his life from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 3 years, 1 month agoSurrender, which will ‘draw in detail’ what he had previously only sketched in songs, will contain 40 chapters, each named after a U2 song, and include 40 ori […]
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Blog: Once more with feeling: why time loop stories keep coming back from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 3 years, 1 month agoFrom Groundhog Day to Russian Doll, fiction in which characters replay their lives have great appeal – especially now, when a slew of time-travel novels are set t […]
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A tower appeared overnight in the group The Muse of Last Resort: 3 years, 1 month agoOvernight, a tall tower of metal beams appeared on the outskirts of town. No one seems to know why it is there or who made it. Local birds seem to avoid it and dogs get very upset if taken too near. It seems to […]
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Blog: Music for the Dead and Resurrected by Valzhyna Mort review – a bright new voice from an endless winter from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 3 years, 1 month agoThis exceptional collection from the Belarus-born poet digs into what happens when the self goes missing in an authoritarian regimeValzhyna Mort was born in Minsk, […]
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Blog: Monster Of The Week 121: HatOfLastResort from
Night of the Hats in the group Night of the Hats 3 years, 1 month agoMonster Of The Week 125 is HatOfLastResort, it’s raining or cold and this, this is what you’ve got, once fashionable, now lives in quiet retirement but secretly […]
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Blog: Exit Stage Left by Nick Duerden – what happens once the hits have dried up? from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 3 years, 1 month agoThese profiles of ageing rockers ponder whether it’s better to burn out, fade away or buy a house in London, writes the former frontman of the Ordinary BoysI r […]
