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Matthew Brown started the topic Moderator(s) wanted in the forum General Chat 2 years, 11 months ago
I have come to realise that running all this by myself is getting a bit much. So, in the spirit of problem-solving, I thought I would put out a request for some moderators. The first round of selection is open to anyone who is active on the site.
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Big update finished in the group Help and Support: 2 years, 11 months agoI just finished running a network-wide update. The update went smoothly. Everything looks fine as far as I can tell.
However, if there are problems, please report them to the help and support group and I will […]
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Blog: ‘More than wonderful’ … Gaza bookshop to reopen after unexpectedly successful global campaign from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 2 years, 11 months agoAfter it was destroyed by Israeli airstrikes, Samir Mansour’s beloved book store has been rebuilt and restocked, as tens of thousands of books flood in from a […]
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Blog: What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they’ve enjoyed in January from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 2 years, 11 months agoMegan Nolan, Rishi Dastidar, Alison Flood and Guardian reader gladarvor discuss the titles they’ve read over the last month. Join the conversation in the c […]
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Steven Nall became a registered member 2 years, 11 months ago
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Blog: Children’s and teens roundup – the best new picture books and novels from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 2 years, 11 months agoA monster trying to order pizza, a Nigerian girls’ boarding-school story, a YA Indian fantasy about scheming siblings – and much moreBaby, Sleepy Baby by Atinuke an […]
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Blog: Edmund White: ‘My earliest reading memory is a lady toad with a nasty temper’ from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 2 years, 11 months agoThe author on being snobbish about Proust, discovering Death in Venice, and the dark side of WaughMy earliest reading memoryWhen I was four or five we had a […]
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Blog: hey Neil! love your work! i was wondering if you ever had books (or anything you’ve written) that you expected to do well? and if they met those expectations- or anything where you didn’t expect much but they actually ended up doing really well?? from
Neil Gaiman in the group Fans of Neil Gaiman 2 years, 11 months agoI thought Mister Punch would do really well, and make an impact, and it didn’t. Most of the people who like my stuff have never heard of it. I thought Norse M […]
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Blog: Sweat by Bill Hayes review – a history of the physical that gets personal from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 2 years, 11 months agoAn all-encompassing book about bodies and exercise through the ages that leaves you hungry for moreA theatre director once told me that you should never ask what a […]
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Blog: I Watch Films: Deathdream from
Night of the Hats in the group Night of the Hats 2 years, 11 months agoDeathdream (aka Dead Of Night) Andy Brooks is an American soldier in Vietnam, and he’s shot. His mother prays that he will return, saying that he promised. T […]
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Blog: Devotion by Hannah Kent review – 19th-century voyage of discovery from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 2 years, 11 months agoTwo young Prussian women emigrate to Australia in Kent’s rapturous but overblown third novelThe Australian writer Hannah Kent has found critical and commercial s […]
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Blog: Hi, I recently found out about a short story you wrote where a guy meets himself in hell as a demon. What is the name of that story and where can I find it? from
Neil Gaiman in the group Fans of Neil Gaiman 2 years, 11 months agoIt’s called “Other People” and it’s in Fragile Things and The Neil Gaiman Reader.
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Blog: Hello Mr. Gaiman, I was wondering, how much say does the author get in what the cover of a book looks like? I’ve seen lots of book covers that, when you’ve read the book, it’s clear that the cover artist didn’t (read the book, I mean). Is choosing what goes on the cover completely up to the publisher, or does the author get any choice? Have you ever been disappointed by a cover on one of your books? from
Neil Gaiman in the group Fans of Neil Gaiman 2 years, 11 months agoIt varies, from Lots of Say to Not Much Say At All. I’ve been disappointed over the years, but I’ve been much more pleased than disappointed.If you’re curio […]
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Blog: Hi! I absolutely love your books and I love that you engage with fans:) I was looking at some entries/descriptions for some of Roger Zelazny’s books (specifically, Nine Princes in Amber) and I noticed that one of the author descriptions said that he was an influence of yours. I was wondering if that was true? And if so, what your favorite work of his is? Thanks! from
Neil Gaiman in the group Fans of Neil Gaiman 2 years, 11 months agoHe is, yes. He made writing look like fun. And more than that, he made writing really well look like fun.Probably Lord of Light, or Creatures of Light and […]
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Blog: Hi Neil! I read your short story A Study in Emerald today and I was wondering how you managed to get it published when it’s so clearly based on the Sherlock Holmes stories. Does it have something to do with it being a parody? I’d also like to say that I greatly enjoyed it and all of your work. from
Neil Gaiman in the group Fans of Neil Gaiman 2 years, 11 months agoNo, it has to do with the Sherlock Holmes stories being in the public domain.
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Blog: I still can’t get over your guest appearance in The Simpsons’ episode “The Book Job”. It’s one of my fave modern Simpsons episode. How did they approach you to appear in the show? Do they like, “Mr. Gaiman, we love to have you in our show! You will play as yourself only that he will be the lunch boy, oh and he’s illiterate as well. How about it?” ? from
Neil Gaiman in the group Fans of Neil Gaiman 2 years, 11 months agoNope. They asked if I’d do a cameo. I said yes, figuring it would be a one line gag. Then they sent me the script. I read it. I read it again. I went “Whoa. Tha […]
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Blog: Hi Neil ❤️ it may seem strange but can I hug you if we meet? from
Neil Gaiman in the group Fans of Neil Gaiman 2 years, 11 months agoNormally the answer is “of course”. In these Covid times, the answer is probably “it depends”.
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Blog: How do you think Tolkien would have felt about the A Song of Ice and Fire series? from
Neil Gaiman in the group Fans of Neil Gaiman 2 years, 11 months agoI think that, if he was both alive and reading it, he would patiently be waiting for the next book.
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Blog: 7 Online Business Ideas for Practical Content Entrepreneurs from
Copyblogger in the group Copy Blogger Fans 2 years, 11 months agoIf you’re reading this, you’ve probably already been brainstorming online business ideas — and for good reason. We’re living in…
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Blog: Tony Lyons, the US publisher who picks up books ‘cancelled’ by other presses from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 2 years, 11 months agoThe man behind Skyhorse books, which has published recent works by Woody Allen, Blake Bailey and Norman Mailer, explains why he keeps taking on controversial […]
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Saved by aliens, or were we? in the group The Muse of Last Resort: 2 years, 11 months agoYour engines failed mid-trip. This should have meant certain death for you and your five crew members. Fortunately, you were picked up by an unknown race of massive (mostly hairless) aliens. Their ships are as […]
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Blog: A Very Nice Girl by Imogen Crimp review – power games from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 2 years, 11 months agoThis gripping debut about an opera singer’s relationship with an older man explores issues of financial and sexual inequalityAnna meets Max in a hotel bar in c […]
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Blog: I Read Stories: The Petticoat Government by Kehkashan Khalid from
Night of the Hats in the group Night of the Hats 2 years, 11 months agoThe Petticoat Government by Kehkashan Khalid in Fantasy Anga is a concubine of the Emperor and when they are forced to flee, she raises the prince and heir, […]
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Blog: Everything Is True by Roopa Farooki review – the pandemic up close and personal from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 2 years, 11 months agoA doctor’s record of facing the onslaught of Covid’s first wave while swamped by private grief“Giving someone the truth when they don’t want it is a sort of emot […]
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Blog: What is another word for mass and what do you call a large body of salt water? from
Neil Gaiman in the group Fans of Neil Gaiman 2 years, 11 months agoGathering and Ocean.
