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Blog: 147. Rebecca of Salerno from Becky's Book Reviews in the group Book bloggers 1 year, 1 month ago
Rebecca of Salerno: A Novel of Rogue Crusaders, a Jewish Female Physician, and a Murder. Esther Erman. 2022. [August] 264 pages. [Source: Review copy]First […]
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Blog: THE SHADOW EARL now in audio! from Stella Riley in the group Fans of Stella Riley 1 year, 1 month ago
Watch and listen to this YouTube extract read by Alex Wyndham. The Shadow Earl audiobook is available from Audible & Amazon now!
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Blog: Seren Cardiff Poetry Festival Takes a Break for 2023 from Seren in the group Seren Books 1 year, 1 month ago
Due to the exciting changes currently ongoing at Seren, we are sorry to announce that the Seren Cardiff Poetry Festival will be taking a break in 2023.
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Blog: Arturo Cifuentes on Valuing Art from The Virtual Book Channel – Literary Hub in the group The Virtual Book Channel 1 year, 1 month ago
Hosted by Andrew Keen, Keen On features conversations with some of the world’s leading thinkers and writers about the economic, political, and technological i […]
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Blog: Word of the Day – Bedevil from For Reading Addicts in the group Book bloggers 1 year, 1 month ago
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Blog: 146. Proud Sorrows from Becky's Book Reviews in the group Book bloggers 1 year, 1 month ago
Proud Sorrows. (Billy Boyle #18) James R. Benn. 2023. [September] 365 pages. [Source: Review copy] [historical fiction; mystery; world war II; series book]First […]
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Blog: Word of the Day – Layman from For Reading Addicts in the group Book bloggers 1 year, 1 month ago
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Blog: 145. Code Name Bananas from Becky's Book Reviews in the group Book bloggers 1 year, 1 month ago
Code Name Bananas. David Walliams. 2020/2023. 384 pages. [Source: Library] [J Historical Fiction; MG Historical Fiction]First sentence: Life. Love. Laughter. The […]
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Blog: Books I Read in July 2023 from A Little Blog of Books in the group Book bloggers 1 year, 1 month ago
Stasiland by Anna Funder won the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction in 2004 (now known as the Baillie Gifford Prize) and chronicles the lives of several people […]
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Blog: HUZZAH FOR EDEN & LYDIA! from Stella Riley in the group Fans of Stella Riley 1 year, 1 month ago
Lords of Misrule has been awarded a B.R.A.G. Medallion – with full marks in all 10 categories! “An example of how to write history and keep the reader bound up in […]
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Blog: I’m sorry Neil, although I love your writing and agree with your opinions on most subjects I have to disagree with you on the writers’ strike. No-one should have a more privileged life as a result of being clever and creative. I worked from the age of 15 to the age of 65 in low-paid jobs, taking 1 year off to go to drama school and 3 years off to get a fine art degree. I worked in terrible but necessary jobs, labouring, stacking boxes, unloading trucks, running errands, filing, going to work on a bicycle at all hours of the day and night on shift work in all kinds of weather. Even when I was a student I was still working in part-time cleani8ng jobs and even during periods of unemployment I worked in volunteer jobs for charities and social services. According to Mensa I have an IQ of 160 and according to Plymouth University I have a BA hons in Fine Art but I cannot accept the idea that writers and other creative people should avoid normal jobs like driving an “Uber” or working in an office/shop/factory/construction site. To accept that idea would be to create a new aristocratic class when we should abolishing the old princes and aristocrats. What we need, I feel sure, is a redistribution of labour so that everybody who can do so would spend some time each year in blue collar work and everybody who can would get higher education and a chance to make art of one sort or another. The idea of doing other jobs to supplement writing or drawing shouldn’t be seen as a terrible thing, a punishment or a suffering. Sharing the jobs around should be seen as normal. I mean, I’ve done my half century of sweat labour and it didn’t hurt me too much. I’m retired now and still making art of various kinds and I’ve never asked anyone to pay me for any art piece I’ve made. making art, writing, drawing etc. is the fun stuff which we get to do in exchange for the blue collar stuff which puts food on the table. The worst pop song ever written was Sting/Dire Straits song “Money for Nothing” which ridicules the working class from a position of educational privilege. So what’s my question? My question is: What’s wrong with a writer doing other jobs to make ends meet? Sounds perfectly fine to me. from Joanne Harris in the group Fans of Joanne Harris 1 year, 1 month ago
Nothing’s wrong with a writer doing other jobs to make ends meet. Writers and artists have been doing that since the dawn of time. Actors too. But by the same […]
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Blog: The Final Chapter from Joanne Harris in the group Fans of Joanne Harris 1 year, 1 month ago
A review – well, sort of – of Chris Fowler’s WORD MONKEY.There are books that you never want to end. Sometimes it’s because of the thrilling plot; or the fantasti […]
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Blog: The best recent crime and thrillers – review roundup from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 1 year, 1 month ago
A Bird in Winter by Louise Doughty; A Line in the Sand by Kevin Powers; My Husband by Maud Ventura; Case Sensitive by AK Turner; The Turnglass by Gareth RubinA […]
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Blog: Friday Poem – ‘Ernest Morgan’s House’ by John Powell Ward from Seren in the group Seren Books 1 year, 1 month ago
This week’s Friday Poem is ‘Ernest Morgan’s House’ by John Powell Ward from his new collection Last Poem for Sarah and other poems.
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Blog: Ayòbámi Adébáyò: ‘I read The Go-Between by LP Hartley and couldn’t stop crying’ from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 1 year, 1 month ago
The Booker-longlisted Nigerian author on the elementary appeal of Sherlock Holmes, crying with LP Hartley and the joys of rereadingMy earliest reading memoryThe […]
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Blog: Quinn Eastman on the Science of Sleepiness from The Virtual Book Channel – Literary Hub in the group The Virtual Book Channel 1 year, 1 month ago
Hosted by Andrew Keen, Keen On features conversations with some of the world’s leading thinkers and writers about the economic, political, and technological i […]
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Blog: Bliss & Blunder by Victoria Gosling review – an Arthurian legend for our times from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 1 year, 1 month ago
Tech bros are the new Knights of the Round Table in this whip-smart fable of friendship and misogynyAnd what if it’s not – just this once – about the boy?” This qu […]
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Blog: My problem with “was” from Thanet Creative Writers in the group Thanet Creative: Writers 1 year, 1 month ago
The word “was” is an easy fit when writing in the past tense. Along with “had” it is easy to use the word so hard and often that it becomes a distrac […]
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Matthew Brown edited the blog post My problem with “was” in the group Thanet Creative: Writers: 1 year, 1 month ago
My problem with "was" The word “was” is an easy fit when writing in the past tense. Along with “had” it is easy to use the word so hard and often that it becomes a […]
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Blog: 144. Thee, Hannah! from Becky's Book Reviews in the group Book bloggers 1 year, 1 month ago
Thee, Hannah! Marguerite de Angeli. 1940. 98 pages. [Source: Library] [children’s classic; j fiction]First sentence: Hannah stopped talking for a moment to listen […]
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Blog: Establish Your Freelance Writing Rates (New Data) from Copyblogger in the group Copy Blogger Fans 1 year, 1 month ago
As a freelance writer, I never fully understood the value I provided to my clients until I wrote a case…
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Blog: P.S. Burn This Letter Please by Craig Olsen review – tales from New York’s drag scene from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 1 year, 1 month ago
An eccentric retelling of the lives, loves and traumas of 1950s and 60s queensEd Limato was a razzle-dazzle agent who provided “the bridge between old-time H […]
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Blog: Dr. Peter Kim on How Trust Works from The Virtual Book Channel – Literary Hub in the group The Virtual Book Channel 1 year, 1 month ago
Hosted by Andrew Keen, Keen On features conversations with some of the world’s leading thinkers and writers about the economic, political, and technological i […]
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Blog: Matthew Moynihan on the Promises of Fusion from The Virtual Book Channel – Literary Hub in the group The Virtual Book Channel 1 year, 1 month ago
Hosted by Andrew Keen, Keen On features conversations with some of the world’s leading thinkers and writers about the economic, political, and technological i […]
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Blog: Shark Heart by Emily Habeck – the man who turned into a shark from Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 1 year, 1 month ago
This high-concept romantic debut explores the experience of facing life-changing and life-threatening conditionsOpposites, as the saying goes, attract. At first […]