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Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post
The new god goes too far in the group The Muse of Last Resort: 3 years, 9 months agoYou and a small group of determined people have coped with everything the crazy new god has thrown at you. The days have run for 400 hours and then 4 hours. Minecraft logic replaced physics. Insects obsessed with […]
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Blog: A Life of Picasso: Volume IV by John Richardson review – stranger things from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 3 years, 9 months agoThe final volume of biography by Richardson, who died before finishing it, is a thrilling survey of Picasso’s surrealist eraJohn Richardson opens the final ( […]
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Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post
Colin Blaze and the stolen memories in the group The Muse of Last Resort: 3 years, 9 months agoBlaze has been offered an obscene pile of cold harsh cash to recover a stolen item. That item, it turns out, is the memories of an eccentric recluse who claims (tattered clothes to the contrary) to be the richest […]
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Blog: NoViolet Bulawayo: ‘I’m encouraged by this new generation that wants better’ from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 3 years, 9 months agoThe Booker-shortlisted author talks about Zimbabwe after Mugabe – and drawing on Orwell for her brilliant new political satireOn the day I talk over Zoom with NoVio […]
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Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post
The Long Snow in the group The Muse of Last Resort: 3 years, 9 months agoThe night had brought a fresh powdering of snow. You look out of the window at the crisp and untouched landscape to see the tree stump is now the beginning of a great snowman.
It seems so peaceful – magical […]
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Blog: Tom Gauld on reading in the garden – cartoon from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 3 years, 9 months agoContinue reading…
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Blog: I Watch Films: The Skull from
Night of the Hats in the group Night of the Hats 3 years, 9 months agoThe Skull In a prologue the skull of the Marquis De Sade is dug up* and the man who buys it dies a mysterious death. In present day London (the 60s) Peter Cushing […]
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Blog: Booth by Karen Joy Fowler review – background to an assassination from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 3 years, 9 months agoThis family epic about the man who shot Abraham Lincoln spotlights America’s national story and the horrors of slaveryThe Booth family tombstone in Green Mount C […]
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Blog: Word of the Day – Gantry from
For Reading Addicts in the group Book bloggers 3 years, 9 months agoThe post Word of the Day – Gantry appeared first on For Reading Addicts.
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Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post
The new god invents flurgmaglurbs in the group The Muse of Last Resort: 3 years, 9 months agoAt tea-time today, the new god – Adam Celbridge – invented flurgmaglurbs. Flurgmaglurbs are small flying creatures that – should you say something mean and untrue – will pop into existence and zoom into your […]
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Blog: The best recent crime and thrillers – review roundup from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 3 years, 9 months agoRun Rose Run by Dolly Parton and James Patterson; Reputation by Sarah Vaughan; Lady Joker by Kaoru Takamura; Mouth to Mouth by Antoine Wilson; Hot Water by […]
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Blog: Barbara Trapido: ‘I love all other George Eliot – but can’t forgive Daniel Deronda’ from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 3 years, 9 months agoThe novelist on Iris Murdoch’s enticing vision of London, and discovering detective novels in her seventiesMy earliest reading memoryPerez the Mouse, a small, p […]
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Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post
Day 1: Ganymede rover in the group The Muse of Last Resort: 3 years, 9 months agoThousands watched the first day of the Ganymede rover’s streamed visuals. No one expected what it showed in that shallow cave. A dusty human-looking skeleton and six words.
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Blog: Liner Notes for Down From London from
Night of the Hats in the group Night of the Hats 3 years, 9 months agoThe liner notes for my story Down From London If you live in a nice quiet seaside town, or maybe just a nice country town that isn’t by the sea but is in the s […]
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Blog: When I Sing, Mountains Dance by Irene Solà review – the mushroom’s tale from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 3 years, 9 months agoAnimals, ghosts, humans, mountains and clouds share the narrative in this playful, deeply felt portrait of Catalonia and its people“The story of one is the story o […]
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Blog: QUIZ! 6 Years of Quizzes: Other halves – questions about the partners of famous writers. from
For Reading Addicts in the group Book bloggers 3 years, 9 months agoThe post QUIZ! 6 Years of Quizzes: Other halves – questions about the partners of famous writers. appeared first on For Reading Addicts.
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Blog: Word of the Day – Trebuchet from
For Reading Addicts in the group Book bloggers 3 years, 9 months agoThe post Word of the Day – Trebuchet appeared first on For Reading Addicts.
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Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post
This new god is a weird one in the group The Muse of Last Resort: 3 years, 9 months agoThere is a new god on Earth and boy-oh-boy is he potty.
This new god is called Adam. He likes drinking and sunsets. He does not like hearing prayers. Any time someone uses the word god, say by muttering “oh […]
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Blog: 30 Sure-Fire Steps to Become a Successful Freelance Writer from
Copyblogger in the group Copy Blogger Fans 3 years, 9 months agoYou may or may not know that I haven’t always been Copyblogger’s Editor-in-Chief — I previously spent years (and years)…
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Blog: This month’s best paperbacks: Colm Tóibín, Jhumpa Lahiri and more from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 3 years, 9 months agoLooking for a new reading recommendation? Here are some enticing new paperbacks, including honest and funny memoirs and fascinating fiction Continue reading…
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Blog: Butler to the World by Oliver Bullough review – oligarch’s paradise from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 3 years, 9 months agoA timely exposé of how the UK helps oligarchs, gangsters and money launderers spend and store their wealth I t is hard to imagine a more timely book than Oliver […]
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Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post
Colin Blaze and the accidental holiday in the group The Muse of Last Resort: 3 years, 9 months agoMoments ago, Blaze was nodding off at his desk. Now he is wide awake on a beach with a great tan and impressively toned abs. Is he dreaming or has something strange happened?
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Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post
4 science fiction story ideas in under 6 minutes with Tom Scott in the group The Muse of Last Resort: 3 years, 9 months agoHere is Tom Scott giving you a whole load of Sci-Fi story ideas.
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Blog: I Read Stories: The Night He Said I Love You by K C Mead-Brewer from
Night of the Hats in the group Night of the Hats 3 years, 9 months agoThe Night He Said I Love You by K C Mead-Brewer in Craft Literary Dan and Shelly are playing outside, a strange game that involves curses and ghosts and death. […]
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Blog: The Exhibitionist by Charlotte Mendelson review – the artist’s ego from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 3 years, 9 months agoA devastating, blackly comic portrait of middle-class dysfunction and a family with a monster at its centreCharlotte Mendelson’s four previous novels are clever, f […]
