Everything Is Better With Dragons
Book blogger, Autistic, Probably a Dragon
Finally got back to university today. The workshop today was ‘Revisiting Verse’. The tutor played us a piece of music and we had to write down our impressions, then write a poem. Not my strongest subject, but I gave it a bash. I wrote a narrative poem. It was okay, but I didn’t read it out.
I might try the same thing in future, if I get writer’s block.
Published by: Doubleday UK
Publication Date: 13th October 2011
Format: Hardback
I.S.B.N.: 9780385619264
Price: £18.99 (And yes, I did pay that much, I used to get my Discworlds as soon as I could)
Blurb
According to the writer of the best-selling crime novel ever to have been published in the city of Ankh-Morpork, it is a truth universally acknowledged that a policeman taking a holiday would barely have had time to open his suitcase before he finds his first corpse.
And Commander Sam Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch is on holiday in the pleasant and innocent countryside, but not for him a mere body in the wardrobe. There are many, many bodies and an ancient crime more terrible than murder.
He is out of his jurisdiction, out of his depth, out of bacon sandwiches, and occasionally snookered and out of his mind, but never out of guile. Where there is a crime there must be a finding, there must be a chase and there must be a punishment.
They say that in the end all sins are forgiven.
But not quite all…
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Blurb
“You need a plan B,” said Alicia’s mother when at five years old she told her what she wanted to be when she grew up. Thirty odd years later, Alicia is on plan D: sharing a flat, no tangible savings, and working for hateful Julia, whose sole purpose in life is to make her existence utterly miserable. Good thing she has Oscar and the girls to make the long hours at work bearable. But when a series of events tears the close-knit group apart, putting friendships and motives under suspicion, will Alicia be able to restore balance and set things right? More importantly, will she ever be able to upgrade her life to at least plan C?
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Author of I stand corrected, When I grow up…, Rewind, Balou uncensored, Bienvenidos a gatos anónimos, Pasarse cuatro Pueblos and Sesenta segundos dan para mucho, Patricia Asedegbega Nieto was born to a Spanish mother and a Nigerian father in Madrid. As a child, she relocated with her family to Nigeria and later returned to Spain, where she acquired her BSc and master´s degree. She is currently living near Madrid with her family and her very stubborn cat, Merlin Mojito.
http://www.patriciascorner.co.uk/
Twitter @Patricias_Place
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No, really I can’t. I find it boring and shallow. Unless the conversation is going to quickly move on to something deeper, I’d rather not talk at all. From my reading around the subject of my provisional ASC diagnosis last year, it would seem that it’s normal for me, but possibly not for most people.
I haven’t written much of anything about university this year. That’s because, after the first two weeks this term I haven’t been. For various reasons the workshops have been cancelled.
Week 3 – tutor sick, no replacement available
Week 4 – tutor sick, no replacement available
Week 5 – reading week
Week 6 – cancelled due to snow
Week 7 : Authorised absence
Only this week have I been responsible for me not turning up, and that’s because I had my first ASC Diagnostic team appointment. I arranged an authorised absence for Wednesday.
According to a colleague, I didn’t miss much; the tutor was still not up to snuff so he showed a film called Fat man on a beach by B. S. Johnson. This isn’t Bloody Stupid Johnson, famed architect and inventor of Ankh-Morpork, but another with the same initials. The film was quite daft, but the discussion got philosophical, and all I can think is did STP know of this film and film maker? Because something that obscure would appeal to him.
There are two weeks left before the end of term, my assessment booklets have arrived – they’re getting the proof copies, not ones I plan to sell. After the Easter break there are three weeks of workshops and I understand that at some point there will be three extra sessions to make up for the three cancelled workshops.
Then it’s on to the dissertation.
I probably won’t be reviewing many books between May and September.
Enjoy your weekend, I will be reading books and cuddling my hounds.
Hello readers,
I must apologise for not posting the planned review yesterday; I had my first appointment with the ASC Diagnostic Team yesterday morning. I was busy preparing for it and after the appointment I was exhausted.
I will post the review Ape Mind, Old Mind, New Mind by John V. Wylie later in the week.
Published By: How2Become Ltd
Publication Date: 26th February 2018
Format: Paperback
I.S.B.N.: 9781912370115
Price: £9.99
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Published By: Bloodhound
Publication Date: 1st March 2018
Format: ebook
Price: $2.99
I.S.B.N.: 9781912604012
Blurb
Penny seizes the chance of a new life for her family when her husband is offered a job in Europe.
Penny believes she’s being watched. Yet no one should know where she lives.At the airport they meet charming Sophie, fluent in French and looking for work as an au pair.
Penny, struggling to cope in France, offers Sophie a job and she soon becomes an important part of the family’s life. But Sophie is hiding something.
Then Penny’s toddler son, Ethan, is abducted and an international hunt for the child begins.
The police beg Penny and her husband to take part in a television appeal but the couple refuse. Unknown to the police, Penny and Seth have new identities and are determined to lay low and protect them. But it may be too late for that.Who has taken Ethan and why?
Are the couple’s true identities linked to the abduction?
And who has been watching them?
To save her son Penny may have to put her own life on the line.
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I’ve just seen Hamilton in London (waiting for the train to leave King’s Cross as I type) and I have to add to the brilliant reviews it’s already received.
I enjoyed myself immensely, singing along to at least three songs. The songs are catchy, and the story gripping and moving. The acting, dancing and singing was definitely worth the effort of getting to London in this weather. Unfortunately, I don’t have a brochure so I can’t remember names of actors, but the ones who played Hamilton, Elizabeth, Angelica and George Washington were especially impressive.
The set was impressive, large pieces being moved around the stage for dramatic effect. I thought the costumes lovely. I liked the way they changed as the years passed and fashions changed.
The death of Philip Hamilton was terribly moving, even I cried. King George made everyone laugh with his terrible dancing. Historically inaccurate comic relief is acceptable. But only because I enjoyed the rest of it so much.
So, I definitely recommend it, even if you aren’t normally into musicals.
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