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“It was salutory to remember, I told myself, that writers and other creative artists do not relish other people’s ideas. They usually have more than enough of their own, and well-meant suggestions only add to the burden of their already over-stocked minds.” Miss Read, Farewell to Fairacre (1993)
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My last 5 posts
- Mythbusting: Part II June 21, 2021
- Mythbusting: Part I June 12, 2021
- So long, hiatus May 30, 2021
- #WitchWeek2020: The end is nigh! November 6, 2020
- #WitchWeek2020 Day 6: MEXICAN GOTHIC and the Classic Gothic Tale November 5, 2020
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Category Archives: Adventure
#WitchWeek2020 Day 5: Gothic fantasy, with puppets
Puppet shows! Fun times for all, right? Not in this chilling Newbery Honor book. In 2007, Laura Amy Schlitz had won the Newbery Award for Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village. This 2012 gothic fantasy by the … Continue reading
Posted in Adventure, Fantasy, Gothic, Historical fiction, Mystery, Witch Week, YA Lit
Tagged Laura Amy Schlitz, M R James
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In the near future
Lory at The Emerald City Book Review recently wondered if her readers had reading plans for the year. Excellent question, if only because it gives me a chance to prep you for what’s to come on this blog. My usual … Continue reading
Posted in Adventure, Am reading, Australia, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, New Zealand, Travel
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Flotsam and Jetsam
4 books reviewed here, and from them you’ll get a sense of my odd taste in reading these days. No particular reason for it — each one spurred by happenstance, satisfying a yen, or whatever. Lud-in-the-Mist, by Hope Mirrlees (1926, … Continue reading
Posted in Adventure, Am reading, Fantasy, Mystery, YA Lit
Tagged Elizabeth Alcevedo, Hope Mirrlees, Neil Gaiman, Rumer Goden
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“As the sun pulls away from the shore …
… and our ship sinks slowly in the west ….” I finished Moby Dick more than a week ago, on my last night on the road home from a holiday family visit in Oklahoma. The wide horizons of the Midwest … Continue reading
Posted in Adventure, Am reading, Seafaring
Tagged Herman Melville, Nathaniel Philbrick, Spike Jones, T S Eliot
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Am writing, am reading, am really really busy
12 days into November, and I’m on track to finish NaNoWriMo well ahead of the deadline. It’s amazing how much I can accomplish when I have to. The reason I have to: I start a 2½-week trip on 24 November, … Continue reading
There’s more than one kind of wolf
Today’s Witch Week post, from my WW2019 co-host, Chris at Calmgrove, is all about the despicable and heinous, the selfish and greedy — the altogether dreadful villains of Joan Aiken’s Wolves Chronicles. Whether you know Aiken’s series well, or are … Continue reading
R.I.P. XIV, part 2
As promised, a second post for R(eaders) I(mbibing) P(eril) XIV, a celebration of any genre that raises the hairs on the back of your neck. Four books, 2 of which also fit into my celebration of Herman Melville’s 200th birthday … Continue reading
Posted in Adventure, Am reading, Biography, Fantasy, Gothic, Mystery, RIP, Seafaring
Tagged Avi, Edgar Allan Poe, Marilynne Robinson, Mat Johnson, Peter Ackroyd
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