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The Six O’Clock News: Opinion Poll-ish
The news I was planning on doing doesn’t exist, unless Google’s eaten it (someone wrote to JK Rowling saying she wasn’t letting authors get published by publishing so many books?) so this was going to be a cop out until I remembered that slow news days happen in actual newsrooms too! Do you guys remember when… Continue reading
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It’s, Like, a Musical, About, Like, God. Or Something.
This has been a week of mythology. School has been hard lately and I’ve had to be careful about my arm so when Waterstones outdid themselves and delivered House of Hades a day before its official release, I spent most of the afternoon reading (it counts as independent study for Latin, yes?). Uncle Rick, you… Continue reading
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Holiday Post 2013 #1: Literature Appreciation Post #3
Last year I did a list of books I was going to read on holiday, and I thought I’d do another. Incidentally, I published the To Kill a Mockingbird fan fiction just last week (this has been a great year for getting stuff done, huh). So, this year I’m reading: We Need to Talk About… Continue reading
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The Hay Festival!
How has your half term been? That’s nice. Right, pleasantries over, let’s talk about mine. We’ll leave out Monday and today, because I mostly stayed at home and with Fred and Donnie, and I do that a lot. Let’s chat about the Hay Festival. I was only at the festival and in the town, Hay-on-Wye, for… Continue reading
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