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Saturday, November 24, 2012

Cairo Jim Memories

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This morning I woke up thinking of Cairo Jim. Cairo Jim is the hero of a series of children's books by Geoffrey McSkimming....
Saturday, November 17, 2012

The Skeleton Key by Tara Moss. Sydney:Pan Macmillan, 2012

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Meet Pandora English. She has come from small town Gretchenville to live in New York City with her great-aunt Celia, a witch, in a haunt...
Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Saying Goodbye To Book Club -A Sad Day

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Today I will have to say goodbye to my foundation book club members, the same ones I took to the YABBAs last week. Before Thando, Paige, Dy...
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Saturday, November 10, 2012

THRONE OF GLASS By Sarah J. Maas. London, Bloomsbury 2012

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Celaena Sardothien was the world’s greatest, most famous assassin, until she was caught - probably betrayed - and sent to the salt mi...
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Thursday, November 08, 2012

Happy Birthday, Bram Stoker!

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Today's Google image was centred around vampires and Bram Stoker. Today is his 165th birthday! When I declared this at school today, on...
Tuesday, November 06, 2012

Back From The YABBAs

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Andy Griffiths accepts his award A slightly   adapted   version of a post   first published on   Write On! I've spent a won...
Friday, November 02, 2012

Dear Teen Me Post Is Up!

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My post on  Dear Teen Me  has gone live. If you want to see what I looked like at sixteen, here's your chance. Actually, thinking back,...
Thursday, November 01, 2012

Rhiannon and Braydon Interview Justin D'Ath

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Dear readers, Today I would like to introduce you to my guest interviewers Rhiannon Mustapic and Braydon Harvey, who have prepared som...

St Martin's Youth Theatre Love Letters

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Last night I went to see my nephew Max in his youth theatre show. Drama lessons have been good for Max. He started with the National Theatr...
Wednesday, October 31, 2012

The Writer's Forensics Blog: Another Useful Blog For Writers

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I found this on Jordyn Redwood's "how to hurt your hero" blog and have signed up for email notification. The site is called  ...
Monday, October 29, 2012

A Find, A Veritable Find!

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I LOVE the Internet and ebooks! I have found, at last... But first, for my friend Stephanie Campisi, a Haiku with unicorns in it, based o...
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Saturday, October 27, 2012

Sunday Morning Waffle On Giveaways, Rereads and Wolfborn Haiku

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I'm in bed listening to the radio, rereading some books despite a mile-high to be read pile of review copies, sipping chamomile tea and...
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Ray Harryhausen On Saturday Arvo

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I'm sitting in the living room watching a Saturday afternoon matinee movie. It's Sinbad And The Eye Of The Tiger . Prince Kas...
Thursday, October 25, 2012

Playing Back Literature Circles 2012

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I have been playing back some of the filming Emily did for our Literature Circles movie this year and am delighted to find some treasures t...
Monday, October 22, 2012

Fairy Tales And Looking Them Up( from my other blog)

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Last year I went to Swancon, where I attended a workshop on fairy tales by Juliet Marillier, who writes the most wonderful fairy tale-the...
Saturday, October 20, 2012

This Month On The History Girls

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This is Black History Month and not only the US is celebrating it. If you drop in at the  History Girls  blog, you'll find, so far, two...

Yet ANOTHER Blog!

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If you look at the side of the page, you'll find a heading, "My Other Blogs". Of course, I've done Livejournal for a whil...
Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Ada Lovelace Day

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I have only just found out that today, October 16, is Ada Lovelace Day, in which we're encouraged to celebrate a woman of science. ...
Monday, October 15, 2012

Guest Post By George Ivanoff:Inspired by High School

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  I can remember, years ago, working on an issue of SPOCK, the Star Trek club fanzine, typing up one of George Ivanoff's sto...
Thursday, October 11, 2012

World Premiere of "Book Club Fights Back!"

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Yesterday I gathered my readers in the library, presented them with their contributor's copies of the DVD and set up the TV to watch th...