Category: books
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Last week I posted a piece on One Voice Children’s Choir and a pastel painting I had completed in tribute to them and their Director Masa Fukuda. If you want to read it here is the link. This post received the most views and comments across social media than any other piece I have written…
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I am a ghost who walks among you But is never seen. Who speaks But is never heard. Who writes But is never read. My words fall onto the paper But no ear hears the sound, My voice calls out to you But you don’t read my lips. My words are unworthy of your attention,…
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In a previous post I wrote about books being adapted into TV shows. I would like to continue with that theme and explore what could be the successors to the hugely popular Game of Thrones by George R R Martin. There is no doubting the success of Game of Thrones with a viewing average of…
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I don’t know about you but I always feel a little dissatisfied after binge-watching the latest boxset of a popular television series. Binge-watching is the name given to the practice of watching one episode after another without a break. Consumers have been known to watch over eight hours of television in one sitting. No longer do…
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Do you remember the much loved but short lived rock band Daisy Jones and the Six? Of course you don’t, they never existed, apart from within the pages of the wonderfully crafted and original novel by Taylor Jenkins Reid. It’s originality comes by the way the story is told. Through a series of interviews with members of…
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“This is a strange book […] it is wild, confused, disjointed and improbable.” Anon (Examiner 1848) “[I]t is quite impossible to lay it aside afterwards and say nothing about it.” Anon (Douglas Jarrods Newspaper 1848) The two contrasting reviews, printed in newspapers in the winter of 1848, illustrate well how opinion was varied when Emily…
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Please do not let the title mislead you, this is not a blog about marriage! But it is about the nature of books and how we consume them. I know this is not a new argument nor are my opinions original but considering the fact that book sales, whether print, digital or audio, have been…
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I have been using WordPress, on and off, for a few years now. I publish now and then but not consistent enough to build a satisfactory following. The problem I have had is what area to I want to focus on, to write about. I fear I have been too generic. But I believe I…