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May Contain Nuts: Events
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This is me footering about with my blog - and adding a new page for events. Cos, like, November is super busy with lots of opportunities for you lucky, lucky people to come and see me giving it with the chat. Nov 6th, Tuesday. Strathkelvin Writers' Club in Bishopbriggs. Nov 7th, Wednesday. Waterstones, Braehead. From 6pm. And its all about Blood Tears tonight. Nov 9th, Friday. Nov 15th, Thursday. Nov 21st, Wednesday. Nov 27th, Tuesday. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Who would have thunk it? I think that des...
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May Contain Nuts: Wot I Read in July
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Tuesday, 5 August 2014. Wot I Read in July. The Dark Blood – AJ Smith. This is the 2. In The Chronicles of the Long War series. (FYI - The Black Guard was the first.) And it is bloody brilliant. I do love me some epic fantasy and this book delivers on all angles. A carefully constructed world – just familiar and yet different enough to engage – great plotting, wonderful baddies and heroes you want to spend time with. Not read any fantasy for a while? Get stuck into this. Walter Mosley – Rose Gold. Legend...
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Links - Kate Kasserman
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Some sites I like (never complete, and always in flux - particularly so right now, because I don't have time to update this completely at the moment, but I will do so soon! Hereward L.M. Proops. Create a free website. Create your own free website. Start your own free website. A surprisingly easy drag and drop site creator. Learn more.
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May Contain Nuts: The King is dead - Long live the King!
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Saturday, 30 May 2015. The King is dead - Long live the King! The eagle-eyed among you will have noticed that there's not hellish much going on at May Contain Nuts these days. So, I've decided to suspend activities here . but continue blogging over at my new site MJM Ink. As the great man (Benjamin Disraeli) once said, "the secret to success is a constancy of purpose" and I hope the gems you read about over at MJM Ink will keep you firmly on track to achieve your goals. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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May Contain Nuts: The First Post
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Tuesday, 14 April 2009. I've been arguing with myself for some time now that I should be writing a blog. Arguments against: everybody's doing it - I might come across as an arse - I might run out of things to say. Arguments for: everybody's doing it - I might come across as an arse.and you get the picture. Now I've run out of things to say. Kidding. I've got one eye on the footie. Liverpool are playing catch up with Chelsea. Who'll win? Don't you think all that money has taken the fun out of the game?
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Booksquawk: GHOSTWRITTEN
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November 18, 2009. 448 pages, Vintage (publisher). Review by Bill Kirton. There are all these. And then there’s David Mitchell. Cloud Atlas was a revelation. It’s a rich, astonishing, complex achievement. Following its various interconnected narratives is an absorbing, all-encompassing experience of clambering through layers of meaning, half-perceived connections and elusive echoes. And each of the layers is a bloody good, gripping story which works at basic page-turning levels. If you havent read it.
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Booksquawk: THE KING IN YELLOW
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March 18, 2015. THE KING IN YELLOW. By Robert W Chambers. 193 pages, Gollancz/SF Gateway. Review by Pat Black. Robert W Chambers’ The King In Yellow. Has had a rub of the green in its eerie afterlife. Referenced throughout HBO’s serial killer drama True Detective. The US author’s 1895 short story collection has enjoyed renewed interest from readers curious to know more about the chap in the title and his dreaded city of Carcosa. I’m one of them. The rest of the stories are not. The King in Yellow. 8220;T...
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Booksquawk: A PERFECT 10: GREAT SHORT STORIES
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May 5, 2015. A PERFECT 10: GREAT SHORT STORIES. Review by Pat Black. Just for jolly – and before I change my mind - here are my favourite short stories. No particular genre, no specific length. 10 The Nine Billion Names of God by Arthur C Clarke. Sometimes, when you finish a big book, you feel a sense of relief. Even if you really enjoyed it, it’s nice to get it over with and start something fresh. With Arthur C Clarke’s Collected Stories. 9 Cathedral by Raymond Carver. During my dim and distant undergra...
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Booksquawk: TELL THE WOLVES I'M HOME
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December 3, 2012. TELL THE WOLVES I'M HOME. By Carol Rifka Brunt. 368 pages, The Dial Press. Review by J. S. Colley. One of the themes in Tell the Wolves I’m Home. Is the relationship between sisters, so it’s appropriate my sister recommended this book to me. I can see why she was drawn to it. She, like one of the characters in the novel, is an artist. The reader is supposed to believe fourteen year-old June—who at one point is mortified that she might have to kiss her AIDS-ridden Uncle Finn (even ...
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