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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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Scratchpad: The Spanner - 4
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Friday, 17 February 2012. The Spanner - 4. Something had changed on the office floor, he could feel it. There was an almost tangible tension holding everyone in place at their desks, heads down and working hard. Even Troy was typing something instead of just surfing the web. It was these two monkeys from Group, their mere presence had been enough to get everyone on edge. Didn’t have to live with them. So he broke the cycle. Ramble memorised the manual, learnt the system, then destroyed everything. Fi...
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Scratchpad: The Spanner - 5
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Wednesday, 22 February 2012. The Spanner - 5. 8216;Gentlemen, welcome, welcome. Take a seat. Would you like anything to drink? I have coffee and sparkling water. No still water I’m afraid. If you need still, I could have Richard get you some.’. 8216;Of course, of course,’ Clitheroe said as he settled behind his desk. ‘So, what’s all this about then? 8216;That was to be expected, I suppose. What kind of a roadblock? 8216;Can’t or won’t? Ryan felt a sudden warmth emanating from Kong, a clearly detectable w...
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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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Booksquawk: THE UNFORTUNATES
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August 2, 2013. 176 pages, Picador. Review by Marc Nash. A book that comes in a book-shaped box! Twenty-seven sections, one labeled ‘first’, one ‘last’ and the reader is free to choose the order in which they read the interceding 25 sections. This isn’t a device for the sake of being tricksy, but the author wants to replicate the random and unreliable nature that our memories work. And what of the overall effect of the narrative conceit? Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Hereward L. M. Proops.
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Booksquawk: FLAWED DOGS
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June 30, 2010. The Shocking Raid on Westminster. 217 pages, Philomel Books. Review by Melissa Conway. Is by far the best new book I’ve read all year. This book is written for middle-grade readers and illustrated in the author’s unique comic style, with both black and white pictures and full-page color inserts. But even though the illustrations give us insight into Breathed’s vision for his characters, I have to say the story is so well-written it could have stood on its own. Really, truly good read.
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Booksquawk: AMERICANA
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April 21, 2015. Review by Bill Kirton. I’ve written before about the apparent artlessness of Helen Burke’s poetry. The need for that qualifier ‘apparent’ is especially evident with regard to this particular collection. She eventually made it to the. A country her father (whose happy spirit lurks in so many of her poems), longed to have visited, and she seemed to see things there through the eyes of a child on a first visit to. Is the setting for a very funny incident involving an elevator, a policeman (o...
