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Yay! Though I’m sorry to hear that the first chapters were so grim they almost put the reviewer off, I’m very glad to hear that she felt it was well worth pushing through to get to the rest of it 🙂 http://boysinourbooks.com/2015/02/04/pre-release-review-trowchester-blues-by-alex-beecroft/ Overall, I thought this was a very enjoyable read, once I got past…
We’re posting love letters from our characters on the Macaronis blog and on the Speak Its Name yahoo group. Why not come along to SIN and contribute your own? Tweets and text speak are also welcome. After all if we’re letting our characters loose on the computer, I’m sure they’d want to try everything 🙂…
The big news in the village is that we have decided to resurrect the local morris side. DH and I went to the very first meeting of interested parties last night and discovered that of the 20 people who said they were coming, 14 had begged off because it was Burns Night. However, six is…
another test post to see what’s going on between LJ and DW
Great day at Whittlesea Straw Bear festival yesterday. Lots of dancing, lots of whistle playing, got a free chocolate from the Not Just Cafe when I went to buy an ‘Oh God, I’m two coffees short of waking up’ coffee, and the Sue Ryder charity shop was having a stock clearout, so I got a new winter…
So my antagonists for the Cretan thing are early Homeric-era Greeks. It seemed sensible to re-read the Iliad for background. I remember loving the Odyssey in childhood, but being a little meh about the Iliad. However, a lifetime of gender studies, feminism, anthropology and introspection has left me practically unable to read it at all….
