Two book reviews
I know I said I wasn’t reviewing any books this month because I’m concentrating on my novel but I got to 43000 words yesterday so I took some time off to finish reading an ARC I’d got from...
View ArticleNaNoWriMo 2013 update 5
I’m making better progress than I thought. Taking everything in to account I have written approximately 43,229 words and am about three quarters of the way through the novel. Since I had aimed for 2000...
View ArticleNaNoWriMo 2013: Update 6
Good Evening all, How’s all the WriMo’s doing? Only nine days left to go. I’m pleased to say that despite slowing down a little I’m still making progress. It’s taken me three tries but I think I’m...
View ArticleEEEEEKKK Dr Who! Or, my review of ‘An Adventure In Space and Time’
For those who don’t know, I quite enjoy Dr Who. I can’t wait for the fiftieth anniversary episode on Saturday evening. As part of the celebrations Mark Gatiss has made a programme called ‘An Adventure...
View ArticleNovel news
I finished it! I finished it! The first draft of my novel, ‘Threes the charm’, is finished. I finished it yesterday afternoon. It is just over 55,000 words long and I think it’ll probably get longer...
View Article‘Brave New World’
I spent the day reading ‘Brave New World’ by Aldous Huxley. I can’t believe I’ve never read it before. It was very thought-provoking, and slightly disturbing.
View ArticleThe 35 Greatest Easter Eggs From The “Doctor Who” 50th Anniversary – BuzzFeed
Adventures and Musings of an Arch Druidess http://www.buzzfeed.com/paulaersly/greatest-easter-eggs-from-the-doctor-who-50th-anniver?s=mobile View original post
View ArticleReview: 100 Poems Old and New by Rudyard Kipling
Selected and Edited by Thomas Pinney Cambridge University Press 11 December 2013 This is a collection of mostly unfamiliar poems by Rudyard Kipling, culled from a variety of sources. There are poems...
View ArticleReview: Raising Steam by Terry Pratchett
Transworld Publishers 2013-11-07 In the 40th Discworld novel it’s steam engine time. In the rural town of Sheepridge Dick Simnal goes one better than his old Dad and works out how to tame steam and...
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