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Saturday, January 30, 2016

January 31 - On This Day

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I really have to get on with preparing my classes for tomorrow, so I've kept it simple, with a date meme.  Things that happened on this ...
Thursday, January 28, 2016

Loss Of Followers Overnight!

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Dear Readers, I seem to have lost twenty followers overnight. As I don't really think twenty people have deleted me from their list o...
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Monday, January 25, 2016

Just Finished Reading...

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...a few books. My latest in my Lois McMaster Bujold reread, Memory . In Memory , Miles Vorkosigan must start a new life, knowing that he...
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Wednesday, January 20, 2016

Guest Post - Aubrey Porter And Imaginary Elephants

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I have to admire people who have a go at NaNoWriMo - 50,000 words in a month! It's one of those things I've never tried myself, thou...
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Monday, January 18, 2016

Rejoicing For My Students(reposted from Livejournal)

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Yesterday the results came out for university offers for Year 12 students, so I looked on line and found some of those whose names I rememb...
Saturday, January 16, 2016

In Which I Take The Mary Sue Test

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I found this link   in a post on author Susan Price's 'Nennius' Blog. It's aimed at writers who can check it out to see if ...
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Currently Rereading... Brothers In Arms by Lois McMaster Bujold

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The latest of my Bujold rereads is Brothers In Arms , the first one I ever read, the one that got me hooked on the series. My copy is a re...

Katherine Hayton's Police Procedural!

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Yesterday a Kiwi author called Katherine Hayton asked me via Twitter if I'd check out her new book on something called Kindle Scout ...
Wednesday, January 13, 2016

A New Book...After Getting Rid Of Some Old Ones!

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So, yesterday, the nice gent from the Continuum committee came to pick up the approximately hundred books I was donating to the con's fu...
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Tuesday, January 12, 2016

A Morning At The Movies With Young Rachel: The Force Awakens

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Warning, possible spoilers below, but by now you should have seen it if you want to see it, and they're only minor spoilers you probably...
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Monday, January 11, 2016

Vampire Fiction I've Read

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Public domain image. In my tote bag at the moment is a Tanya Huff novel I unearthed while selecting books to give away.  This one is Smoke A...
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Saturday, January 09, 2016

Happy Birthday Morris Gleitzman!

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Image found on Wikipedia Today is the date of birth of wonderful Australian children's writer Morris Gleitzman. He's done a...
Wednesday, January 06, 2016

Sorting books for giveaway

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I'm going to give some books from my overflowing shelves and bags and boxes to Continuum, our annual Melbourne SF convention, which will...
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An Arvo At The Movies And Women Inventors

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Today, I went with my sister and two younger family members, to see the film Joy, starring Jennifer Lawrence of Hunger Games fame, and Ro...
Sunday, January 03, 2016

Book Currently In My Tote Bag: A Civil Campaign

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A few years ago, at a library conference, I was chatting with Michael Pryor, the author of the steampunk Laws Of Magic series. I commented t...
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Thursday, December 31, 2015

My New Year's Eve Tradition: Rocky Horror Picture Show

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This time last year I was wondering if it would be the last time. The Astor Cinema was being sold and the owner kicked out. But then, a mir...
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Wednesday, December 30, 2015

Compulsory New Year's Eve Post: My Year In YA Books

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I started the year with a binge of Aurealis Awards books, but it's hard to remember how many I read in 2015 and how many I actually read...
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Tuesday, December 29, 2015

Published Around This Time in 2013

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Here's a link to my last post for 2013. It was mostly about having to teach Year 8 history in 2014, but also about researching in prima...
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Monday, December 28, 2015

A Message From Google

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Here's a link to Satima Flavell's blog, in which she passes on the latest message about Google's decision to retire something t...
Saturday, December 26, 2015

On This Day - December 27

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Searching for things that happened on December 27, I found quite a bit, most of it violent, and not a lot about books or writing, so what ...
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