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Neil Gaiman in the group Fans of Neil Gaiman 2 years, 12 months agothatbadadvice:Help! A Teen Disagrees With Me!Dear Abby, 23 September 2021:DEAR ABBY: I am cleaning out my closet and have decided to sell my wedding dress from 21 […]
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Neil Gaiman in the group Fans of Neil Gaiman 2 years, 12 months agothatbadadvice:Help! My Employee Thinks She Deserves Pay In Exchange For Labor!Ask A Manager, 19 October 2021:I’m not comfortable with one of my new staff members a […]
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Blog: Skylark by Alice O’Keeffe review – inside the spy cops scandal from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 2 years, 12 months agoAn undercover police officer romances a climate activist in a lovingly evoked examination of the 90s protest sceneIt’s hard for a novelist to add twists or drama t […]
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Blog: I Read Stories: Fear Death By Water by Arkady Martine from
Night of the Hats in the group Night of the Hats 2 years, 12 months agoFear Death By Water by Arkady Martine in The Deadlands “Here’s the trick. For a ritual to work, everyone involved has to believe it’s real.” Yllia, imperat […]
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Blog: Pity the Beast by Robin McLean review – a work of crazy brilliance from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 2 years, 12 months agoThis gloriously gothic debut, set around an act of violence in the American west, demonstrates aesthetic fearlessness and real intellectual heft Robin McLean’s f […]
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Blog: 138. Friends Forever from
Becky's Book Reviews in the group Book bloggers 2 years, 12 months agoFriends Forever. Shannon Hale. Illustrated by LeUyen Pham. 2021. [August] 304 pages. [Source: Library]First sentence: And this year…I was an eighth grader. Premis […]
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Blog: Everything, All the Time, Everywhere by Stuart Jeffries review – how we became postmodern from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 2 years, 12 months agoHip-hop, Bowie and I Love Dick are among the cultural artefacts covered in this splendidly readable surveyFor the past half-century, postmodernist thinkers have […]
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Writing dare: Spelling errors FTW in the group The Muse of Last Resort: 2 years, 12 months agoDue to a spelling error, one of your characters gets entirely the wrong idea about something. However, while following up on the false lead they stumble upon new information – they just don’t understand how it […]
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Blog: I Read Books: Lore And Disorder from
Night of the Hats in the group Night of the Hats 2 years, 12 months agoLore And Disorder An anthology of folk fiction stories, taking folk in a broad sense and fiction in an even broader. To pick some highlights: George Sandison’s The […]
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Blog: The Books of Jacob by Olga Tokarczuk review – a messiah’s story from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 2 years, 12 months agoThe Nobel laureate’s visionary epic about 18th-century religious leader Jacob Frank takes on the biggest philosophical themes During the 18th century, in the b […]
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Writing dare: Add flu season to your story in the group The Muse of Last Resort: 2 years, 12 months agoYour main or supporting character is significantly hampered by catching a nasty bug. With a high temperature, sore throat, and aches and pains they find they can do a lot less but think significantly more […]
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Blog: John Agard becomes first poet to win BookTrust lifetime achievement award from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 2 years, 12 months agoReading charity pays tribute to ‘incredible words’ of Afro-Guyanese author, who came to Britain in 1977 where he has become a staple of English lessonsThe Afr […]
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Blog: The Waiting by Keum Suk Gendry-Kim review – heartbreaking Korean war tale from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 2 years, 12 months agoThe author of Grass works another miracle with this semi-autobiographical tale of a family separated by conflictThanks to the pandemic, most of us now know what […]
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Blog: Monster Of The Week 97: LaBelleFrance from
Night of the Hats in the group Night of the Hats 2 years, 12 months agoMonster Of The Week 97 is LaBelleFrance, likes a glass of wine, some cheese, arguing outside the cafe, maybe some boules later, chic, things aren’t hot now, but […]
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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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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: Were you not the first to have SPOILER as a villain of sorts? I would say it’s even their main storyline as a character at this point. from
Neil Gaiman in the group Fans of Neil Gaiman 3 years agoYes, that was me.
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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 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 agoI am so glad I didn’t name you, and that they did. I think Penelope is a perfectly splendid name!
