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Now I’m sure that I when I looked at the weather forecast online yesterday evening it was for rain today… so I was very pleased to wake to the most gorgeous of, if freezing, winter days. We had a nice…
Continue readingWe had a nce Shepherd family walk today down at Ogdens and the Latchmoor valley which was all frosty and frozen and beautiful in the sunshine. I might have gone a wee bit crazy with the photographs… This afternoon has…
Continue reading366 days ago, I listed the books that I had read in 2008 as a permanent record of my reading and as a means to find out how I was doing with my perennial resolution to read more. So, by…
Continue readingThere are certain books, for which the publication of them, is an event. I’m just hoping that Diana Wynne Jones’s new book, Enchanted Glass is every bit as good as her last, House Of Many Ways, and not one of…
Continue readingToday has felt a bit like the end of term. It’s deathly quiet in the office, and I had a very nice lunch out in Little Clarendon Street (surely one of the best streets in the whole of Oxford?) with…
Continue readingIt’s been one of those mornings, when, so close to finishing reading the current book, I had to make time to just sit, legs curled beneath me on the sofa, and read, and finish Helen Dunmore’s Crossing of Ingo, the…
Continue reading366 days ago, I listed the books that I had read in 2007 as a permanent record of my reading and as a means to find out how I was doing with my perennial resolution to read more. So, by…
Continue readingThanks to Jane for linking me to this review of the state of fantasy film adaptations. Itâs an interesting article, but one that leaves me in two minds. On the one hand I would like there to be more film…
Continue readingIf ever there was a day to contrast with the one before it, it would be today. It has been like a new season, let alone a new day. Warm and sunny; it has been like Spring has finally arrived….
Continue readingLast night I finished reading Ursula Le Guinâs Voices. I can remember being blown away by her original Wizard of Earthsea trilogy (and then latterly, quartet), but I was disappointed by the more recent fifth outing for the world, The…
Continue readingFriday 11 January 2008 10:55 “If you try and sell your house, estate agents will tell you to get rid of the books, they are viewed as tired and middle aged,” says Prof Sutherland. I canât imagine ever living in…
Continue reading365 days ago, I declared that I would read more. The difficulty is, that when you are not certain exactly how much you have read previously, its hard to keep a track of whether I am reading more. To this…
Continue readingI’ve been reading Kate Mosse’s Sepulche – the follow-up to her debut Labyrinthe. I have to say, I’m not entirely gripped with it the story set in both current day and 1890s Southern France, but I’m sticking with it. After…
Continue readingAnother interesting thing that came out of the SYP talk, was that, in order to âget noticedâ these days, there are a whole new breed of people to send your work to. There are so many writers out there that…
Continue readingAs the ghosts and ghouls and trickânâtreaters were spilling out onto the Oxford streets for a ghostly-cold night, I returned (after a short trip into Oxford to find a birthday present for my mum) I returned to OUP and met…
Continue readingIâm currently reading Audrey Niffeneggerâs The Time Travellerâs Wife and Iâm loving it. Itâs uniquely original, and fantastic read. It is also incredibly wonky – in its constant switching between characters and times and its all told in the present…
Continue readingUsually I’ve been finding time between eating my sandwiches and reading whatever book it is I’m reading (currently the third part of Kevin Crossley-Holland’s Arthur trilogy, King of the Middle March), to get a bit of work done on revising…
Continue readingToday has largely been about words for me, and I like words… 1. Critted (is that a word – probably not but it sounds better than Critiqued) three chapters of someone’s book on CritiqueCircle. I wonder how much critting you…
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