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The Book Trailer

Well I bowed to teen pressure and created a book trailer for Banished:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEArllkT_x4 It is my first attempt and I can see so many areas where I could improve.  It took me about two hours to create – half … Continue reading

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A King of Fools

For a while now I have been toying with doing a course in creative writing at Oxford and I have been looking into the MSt.  Now, it isn’t that I think I need it, nor is it that I think … Continue reading

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The Camel Who Went To Heaven

Warning: Biblical Hermeneutics The language of legalese is specifically complicated to remove any ambiguities and to preserve clarity for as long as possible.  It needs to be understood in the present and the future.  However, language evolves.  Not only does … Continue reading

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The Dead-Tossed Waves

Just finished reading the Dead-tossed Waves by Carrie Ryan, her second book.  It was sooo lovely.  Ms, Ryan, my apologies, but I just have to  quote you: I remember my mother telling me earlier that we are nothing more than our … Continue reading

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The girl with a dragon tattoo finale NOT

I finished the final in the trilogy this morning and my mind was plagued with questions.  One of my friends told me the boring list of Ikea furniture would be relevant – where?  How?  What relevance is there to Niederman being … Continue reading

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Mumbled Humble Pie

  My view is Life is too short to do something you don’t like if you don’t have to.  Specifically, reading a book that, within the first chapter or so, just doesn’t grab you.  I receive recommendations all the time and the … Continue reading

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