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Daniela Hoffman is Not Stupid – 99p Kindle, £6.99 paperback
Daniela has a shameful secret. She can’t write and tries to hide it. She’s clever and has taught herself to be tough, but things at school go from bad to worse and then…
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Creating a lovable main character
What do you remember about the books that you’ve read? Long after you’ve finished reading, what do you remember most? Not the glorious prose, not the description of the landscape, not even the…
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Slow down, you move too fast
Are you racing around getting ready for Christmas? What I want to do is carry on proof-reading. I’ve only got as far as chapter 22 (out of 42). There’s no time. I’ve got…
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Blue sky or global disaster? Review of ‘Unsheltered’ by Barbara Kingsolver
Read it. This is a story for our times. The message of Unsheltered is like a piece of bright cloth draped over the plot horse. The bones of the horse stick out in…
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‘Encounter Between Two Worlds’ – Louise Illig-Mooncie
What do you think of reincarnation? Do we all have many lives? Louise is a German-born woman who has tried to come to terms with the horrors of the Holocaust. She believes that…
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Still Thursday 28th but after many hours
Getting closer to achieving something (what?!) but finding the pictures in the post difficult to manage. Paul is helping me. Here we both are in the pic above. The fishing pond near our…
