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Blog: Where You Come From by Saša Stanišić review – memory in the wake of war from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 3 years, 2 months agoPast and present are in a constant state of flux in the Bosnian-German writer’s third novel – part autofiction, part Choose Your Own AdventureThe German word Her […]
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Blog: I love that God is a woman in good omens but why and what did you think Terry whould think about that from
Neil Gaiman in the group Fans of Neil Gaiman 3 years, 2 months agoIf you’re going to have a human being play God, you should get a good actor, and Frances McDormand is as good as they come. Do you mean, would Terry have thought t […]
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Blog: hullo mr. gaiman! i recently rewatched good omens recently and i just remembered how amazing the performance was during when aziraphale possessed madame tracy. just wondering though, how was it filmed? did msheen record his lines first and then miranda richardson had to memorise them? from
Neil Gaiman in the group Fans of Neil Gaiman 3 years, 2 months agoNo, Miranda did the acting first, and then Michael lipsynched his lines to her lips.
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Neil Gaiman in the group Fans of Neil Gaiman 3 years, 2 months agoThat has more to do with the scenes with the male angels with gold and silver on their faces being mostly (but not, I think actually, entirely) cut.
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Blog: What if someone doesn’t have a purpose to write a story beyond writing the story? As, no message, no deep meanings, just a story. As someone who took a career in literature, all my teachers had said that kind of stuff is trash literature, so , would it worth write like that? from
Neil Gaiman in the group Fans of Neil Gaiman 3 years, 2 months agoI don’t think there can be a story that doesn’t say more than just the story, because it’s in the world, and it’s written by someone, and the person brings themsel […]
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Blog: Hello! I’m applying to creative writing masters programs right now. All of my writing profs have warned us bébé authors to be prepared for rejection at every point in writerly life, including rejection from every single program we apply to. Do you have any words of wisdom or encouragement for the potential scenario of all the schools saying “no thanks”? from
Neil Gaiman in the group Fans of Neil Gaiman 3 years, 2 months agoI don’t have any qualifications as a writer whatsoever. Or at least, I’ve got a bunch of medals, honourary doctorates, awards and suchlike, but they all turned up […]
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Blog: How do you know if you have good taste? I always worry my writing isn’t going to be good because I don’t like works that people consider masterpieces, or people that are universally liked for their writing/storytelling I’ve started to see things I consider flaws. from
Neil Gaiman in the group Fans of Neil Gaiman 3 years, 2 months agoI’m now old enough that books that I was championing as good because I loved them 40 years ago, that were disliked, ignored, or dismissed, have now been r […]
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Blog: Hello Mr Gaiman! In GO only angels played by actreSSES have golden patches on their faces. They also have golden lips. Why? Is this sort of makeup? from
Neil Gaiman in the group Fans of Neil Gaiman 3 years, 2 months agoThat has more to do with the scenes with the male angels with gold and silver on their faces being mostly (but not, I think actually, entirely) cut.
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Blog: isn’t “good omens” technically an oxymoron? if one were to use the antiquated meaning of omens, specifically from
Neil Gaiman in the group Fans of Neil Gaiman 3 years, 2 months agoNo, an omen, in any definitition going back to the first recorded use of omen as a word, in the 15th century, has meant “something that is believed to be a sign o […]
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Blog: Hi mr. gamin! You might not remember, but in 2005 you were asked to present for a speaker series at university of Chicago. Afterwards, the woman that ran the series and her husband asked you to sign a copy of the wolves in the walls for their unborn child. In the inscription they invented you to name the girl they were going to have. You didn’t, but you dedicated the book to “whoever she may become”. My name is Penelope now, in case you were wondering. Although I’m happy to change it if you have any very belated ideas! from
Neil Gaiman in the group Fans of Neil Gaiman 3 years, 2 months agoI am so glad I didn’t name you, and that they did. I think Penelope is a perfectly splendid name!
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Blog: ‘Delicious caper’ by Jesse Sutanto wins Comedy women in print award from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 3 years, 2 months agoDial A for Aunties takes prize for comic novels by women with story about woman who turns to her relatives after accidentally killing her blind dateJesse Sutanto […]
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Blog: Poem of the week: Musings by William Barnes from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 3 years, 2 months agoRegret over the passage of time is delivered with reticence but powerful emotional authenticityMusingsBefore the falling summer sunThe boughs are shining all as […]
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Blog: The big idea: Should we leave the classroom behind? from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 3 years, 2 months agoThe pandemic has driven a great leap forward in digital learning. Is there any point in looking back?My 21-year-old goddaughter, a second-year undergraduate, […]
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Blog: I Read Stories: Seven Kinds Of Baked Good by Maria Haskins from
Night of the Hats in the group Night of the Hats 3 years, 2 months agoSeven Kinds Of Baked Good by Maria Haskins in Luna Station Quarterly Disa is a dwarf, the descendant of ten generations of smiths, and she made one sword and one […]
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Blog: The Every by Dave Eggers review – scathing big-tech satire sequel from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 3 years, 2 months agoThe writer’s follow-up to The Circle is longer and baggier, but still fuelled by rage at the power of Silicon Valley and its numbing effect on the human r […]
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Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post
Add in an assassin too in the group The Muse of Last Resort: 3 years, 2 months agoYou or your protagonist makes a phone call. A pair of numbers got accidentally swapped. The call connects to an assassin that has been hired to kill you/them.
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Blog: I Watch Movies: She Wore A Yellow Ribbon from
Night of the Hats in the group Night of the Hats 3 years, 2 months agoShe Wore A Yellow Ribbon General Custer and his men have been killed at Little Bighorn. The Native Americans have risen and the narrator tells us that ten […]
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Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post
Cats. Lots of cats. So many cats. (Writing Dare) in the group The Muse of Last Resort: 3 years, 2 months agoToday’s dare is this. Add some cats to the story. Each time anything happens more cats have arrived. Have an endless army of cats that the characters have to work around.
I liked this idea so much I added it […]
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Blog: I Read Stories: Mother Love by Deidre Danklin from
Night of the Hats in the group Night of the Hats 3 years, 2 months agoMother Love by Deirdre Denklin in Cease Cows At the fertility clinic they get to build their baby, to give her what she needs to survive. But if you’re looking t […]
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Blog: The Secret of Life by Howard Markel review – science and misogyny from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 3 years, 2 months agoA cinematic account of toxic masculinity among 1950s DNA researchers – and a celebration of scientist Rosalind FranklinThe first page of Howard Markel’s com […]
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Blog: 137. Love and Lavender from
Becky's Book Reviews in the group Book bloggers 3 years, 2 months agoLove and Lavender (Mayfield Family #4) Josi S. Kilpack. 2021. [November] 320 pages. [Source: Review copy]First sentence: Hazel had not slept well. Her crippled […]
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Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post
The police vs a computer in the group The Muse of Last Resort: 3 years, 2 months agoDuring a raid, the police take possession of a perfectly ordinary-looking computer. However, when the tech team plug it in, the computer complains that it has been detained without due process and demands legal […]
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Blog: The best recent poetry – review roundup from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 3 years, 2 months agoHowdie-Skelp by Paul Muldoon; Oak by Katharine Towers; Amnion by Stephanie Sy-Quia; New and Selected Poems by Ian DuhigHowdie-Skelp by Paul Muldoon (Faber, […]
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Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post
Public transport writing dare in the group The Muse of Last Resort: 3 years, 2 months agoHave your characters make plans that will strongly advance the plot only for the whole day to be a massive waste of time due to bus or train delays.
