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Along with a swag of wonderful books—go over here and have a look. That's the UK Literacy Association, if you were wondering. The UKLA Children’s Book Award is a national award conferred by education professionals and it is held in high esteem by teachers, who regard the shortlist [announced in ...
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And Biblioaddict is one. She's just acquired 7 new books, and one of them is Tender Morsels by Margo Lanagan. I’ve wanted to read this book for so long that it’s almost impossible to believe that I actually finally have a copy. ... I can’t wait to read this, if only to satisfy my curiosity about ...
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Tender Morsels didn't make the Top Ten , but it did make the main list . (via Perry at Matilda )
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Here . Yes. Three other depressing stories: Sheng Keyi's story (trans. Eric Abrahamsen) 'An Inexperienced World' in the latest HEAT. Something depressing about this being the first item in the issue, but mainly it's the story itself. It's about a women 'well past thirty and possessed of a ...
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Tomorrow night (Thursday, that is) at Berkelouw's Books in Norton Street, Leichhardt, Richard Harland will be doing the honours and launching the Keith Stevenson-edited novella collection X 6 , from Coeur de Lion . ALL SIX of the authors AND the Editor Himself will be there, so if you want a ...
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Hey, look here ! It's me giving my Printz Honor speech, back in July! So weird to watch yourself like this. Daniel Kraus, author of a splendid YA novel, The Monster Variations , filmed it.
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...to be no. 79 on the list of Top 50 Australian Blogs for Writers . It's nice to be anywhere on that list, eh.
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Everyone in the world seems to be doing NaNoWriMo this year, and I'm enjoying the blog posts by participants and by sage advisors like Maureen Johnson and Justine Larbalestier. I'm not, though. If NaNoWriMo had been August–September, I would have, but now I've got (count them!) 70,000 words of ...
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The Russian translator of Tender Morsels and I have been in conference—hi, Nadia! She wanted to know what a mudwife is: First I looked into every dictionary possible and searched the web all over, but then read half a dozen interviews with you as well as a number of articles on TM and other ...
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And then, upcoming in March, there's this ! Joan London and Gil Adamson and I will be attending the New Zealand Post Writers and Readers Week, along with 19 international and 3 New Zealand writers, including, you know Neil and Si and Richard and all my mates. We will all wow Wellington.
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Then, this! Which arrived yesterday - 2 copies. I don't know what made me think it would be trade-paperback size. It's one of those neat small format hardbacks. A really nice production, with my 'A Dark Red Love-Knot' buried in the middle of it. Oh dear oh dear oh dear, not a happy story.
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Here's a lot of what I typed up in bed last night, under the heading 'Controversial novel wins World Fantasy award': Lanagan ... hit out at the articles claiming young adults are unable to handle the themes of her book. "There's this assumption that all children have the luxury of a childhood ...
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Margo Lanagan
Google Alerts alerted me to this spectacularly bad review on Goodreads, and I had to show you: I read black juice by Margo Lanagan, the book was kind of confusing with the different pronunciation of the words throughout the whole book. I would recommend this book to people who like a mix of ...
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with Jeff Ford's The Shadow Year . You can see Scott Edelman's pic of Garth Nix (far right) holding my statuette, here . Oh, there are a few other winners and representers there, too, I guess. :)
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From here : Finally, let me make a frighteningly big admission: I am not usually a huge fan of Margo Lanagan's work. It's not that I dislike her writing; on the contrary, I think she is hugely talented author. For me, though, her stories tend to just be too dark to enjoy; and the very fact that ...
