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Today is Shit, so Here’s a Story. ‘How I Met Brooding YA Hero’
To be honest, we’ve all met him. His eyes are the colour of the ocean, or midnight, or brilliant saffron, or blazing ruby. His skin is either chalky white, like the undead we suspect he might be, or the beautiful, ethnically ambiguous ‘heavily tanned’. His grades are always top of the class, but we’ve never… Continue reading
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Read, If You Like… The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
When Isobel gave me The Hitchiker’s Guide at Christmas in our newly-minted Secret Santa tradition, I thought it was because she’d heard me talk about how it was one of those books that I’d always wanted to read but hadn’t gotten around to (also on that list: War and Peace, most of Artemis Fowl, the Chilcot… Continue reading
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A Tale of Many Snacks: Da Nang, Vietnam
‘Don’t stay long in Da Nang,’ they said. ‘There’s only a bridge there,’ they said. ‘It’s half an hour from Hoi An,’ we said. ‘By Asian standards that’s about fourteen seconds. We are going to Da Nang.’ There’s also a train line that runs from Da Nang to Hue, our next stop, and everyone we… Continue reading
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