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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, 5 months agoHow 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, 5 months agoMounting 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, 5 months agoContinue reading…
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Blog: I Read Books: Zothique from
Night of the Hats in the group Night of the Hats 2 years, 5 months agoZothique 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, 5 months agoSix 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, 5 months agoRamsgate 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, 5 months agoThe 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, 5 months agoThe 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, 5 months agoThere 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, 5 months 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 2 years, 5 months 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 2 years, 5 months 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) 2 years, 5 months agoSolving my villager’s impotence problemsView On WordPress
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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, 5 months 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 2 years, 5 months 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 2 years, 5 months 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 2 years, 5 months 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 2 years, 5 months 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 2 years, 6 months 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 2 years, 6 months 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 2 years, 6 months 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 2 years, 6 months 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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Matthew Brown edited the blog post
Freedom Art Competition for 13 to 18 year-olds (free) in the group Thanet Creative: Writers: 2 years, 6 months 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 2 years, 6 months 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 2 years, 6 months 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 […]
