I love tales like this one from Laleh in Iran 😉
Month: September 2017
Smorgasbord Book Promotion – Air Your Reviews – Jack Eason, Mary Smith and Pamela Schloesser Canepa
More reviews…
The first author today with a recent review is Jack Eason for his historical novella 1066, which I read and thoroughly enjoyed.
About 1066
Down the centuries the British Isles has always been seen by invaders as a legitimate target for exploitation. This novella concerns the last few weeks of Anglo-Saxon occupation, ending on the 14th of October, 1066. In Autumn 1066, author Jack Eason gives a great sense of ‘place’, of detail. The reader is right ‘there’ in that poignant year, marching, shivering with September cold (as ‘…no warming fires were allowed lest ‘enemy spies would soon spot their approach.’) From the very first few lines, Eason, practising his unique drycraft, begins to weave his particular brand of magic on his reader. Eason glamour’s with well-crafted dialogue, drawing his reader into the time and into the action. To accomplish this, the author proffers a gentle blend of informative nomenclature…
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A Review
Finally after almost seventy years I’ve just read George Orwell’s account of his involvement in the Spanish Civil War, fighting with the Workers Party of Marxist Unification or POUM, against the facists, until it was declared Trotskyite and therefore illegal. Inevitably this led to thousands from the International Brigade being arrested and imprisoned without trial.
Sound familiar? The same tactic is still being used today. Nothing changes…
Here’s what I had to say in my short review:
on 28 September 2017
All my life I have wanted to read Eric Blair’s Homage to Catalonia. It is his personal account of fighting in the front lines against the facists during the Spanish Civil War. Blair (Orwell) fought in the Communist Brigade (POUM) and was wounded. Like most memoirs it can be a bit long-winded. But it doesn’t detract from the fact that it is a tale worth reading.
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So there you have it folks. If you love a good story well told, read it for yourselves…
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Just Publishing Advice
The 80th Anniversary of ‘The Hobbit’
My favourite book is eighty!!!
by Lee Cross
It’s been 80 years since The Hobbit was first published.
How do you follow a statement like that; truthfully, I don’t know, and it could be argued that every pure fantasy writer has spent the last eight decades trying to follow in the legacy of J.R.R. Tolkien’s legendary book (just a quick FYI: for me The Hobbit is part of the longer story known collectively as The Lord of the Rings).
I could write reams about how The Hobbit’s influence can still be felt, about the superb homages and in-references that I’ve come across, at those times when I have my Fant-Sci head on; and if Jeannie (who puts this site and my ramblings together) was to let me off the leash here, I could turn the air blue talking about horrifying rips offs
(There’s one particular series, by Terry Brooks, that infuriates me. I…
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The Stilt Walking Shepherds of Landes
Thanks to Léa for reposting this on her blog 😉
The Landes region of southwestern France, bordering the Bay of Biscay, is covered by a large pine forest.
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New Things
It’s always nice to hear from Jo 😉
Busy Birdies
After this past year of epic chaos interestingness, I am happy to say that I have learned a lot, and strangely, even the really unpleasant lessons are now showing me their value – retrospect is a fine thing indeed. Now, tempered to the strength of old boots, while hopefully not looking too much like one of them, I am happy to say that there is quite a lot of fabulousness to come over the next few weeks. Beginning with the epic launch in the next weeks of the beginning of her public life, Cynthia Reyes’ amazing Myrtle the Purple Turtle, closely followed by some unadulterated genius of science-fiction by the one and only Joelle LeGendre there is a lot coming up – all happy and wonderful beginnings from some very talented people.
I’ve made sure this time, that failing the actual end of the world…
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