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Usually when I manage to pull a link post together it tends to be of the ‘wtf is the matter with you world’ variety. Today I have something different for you, because you really don’t need to see a collection of links that amount to cursing at the Tories. Instead let us look at some fun things:
Simon interviewed Evie Wyld a while ago, who helped him set up a fabulous contest. People were asked to complete the sentence ‘I saw a Bunyip and it looked like…’ to win a copy of her book ‘After the Fire a Small Still Voice’ and the chance to have their Bunyip drawn by Joseph Summer. I was one of the winners and you can now see my Bunyip (the one on the right). ‘I saw a Bunyip and it looked like a kangaroo being swallowed head first by a giant potato, with dangling, thrashing eyes.’ I love it and the wings are a total bonus.
Next I have to show you an excerpt from Coleen’s first book, ‘The Map of My Dead Pilots’. Her project is part history of exploration and part personal narrative, which makes for a very appealing mix. It is so good, there were shivers going down my back while I read it. It doesn’t have a publisher yet, but I know there’s a ton of support out there for this endeavor so cross your fingers and hope the publishing world decides this is a commercially attractive book.
To end I have some excerpts of the film ‘Andrea: Queen of the Mantas’ which was a fascinating Natural World film about a female scientist and the rays she studies. Sadly you can’t see all the film because iPlayer content expires after seven days, but you can see three little bits of it. It’s one of the best natural science programs I’ve seen this year as part of the Year of Biodiversity challenge. Next month actual reading about biodiversity continues as I learn about the full ominous consequences of the disappearing bees.
In a quick reading update I’ve finished ‘Bleeding Violet’ by Dia Reeves, which I think lots of readers will love (strong, sexually aware heroine with very little fear).
I just finished Part Three of ‘Anna Karenina’, a book that makes me change my opinions on its characters every time I open it. I feel a bit of an ‘AK’ slow down coming on now, possibly all that slashing, digging farming description tired me out.
For my third ‘Once Upon a Time’ selection ( so far read ‘Toads and Diamonds’ and ‘Bleeding Violet’) I’ve just started ‘Fledgling’ by Octavia Butler. It’s disturbing, there’s no question about that and I feel the more that’s revealed the harder it will be to read. Butler has created such a different kind of narrative voice from any I’ve ever heard before. Her main character is both distant, separated from life by her odd form of amnesia and almost clinical in her strange rediscovery of knowledge. At the same time she’s so easy to warm to. Maybe it’s the fact that she’s first introduced when she’s alone and hurt. It could be something to do with an adult voice coming from a body described as childish. Not sure. I hope I’ll make it to the end in time for the final ‘Not the TV Book Club’ meeting later this month.
Simon interviewed Evie Wyld a while ago, who helped him set up a fabulous contest. People were asked to complete the sentence ‘I saw a Bunyip and it looked like…’ to win a copy of her book ‘After the Fire a Small Still Voice’ and the chance to have their Bunyip drawn by Joseph Summer. I was one of the winners and you can now see my Bunyip (the one on the right). ‘I saw a Bunyip and it looked like a kangaroo being swallowed head first by a giant potato, with dangling, thrashing eyes.’ I love it and the wings are a total bonus.
Next I have to show you an excerpt from Coleen’s first book, ‘The Map of My Dead Pilots’. Her project is part history of exploration and part personal narrative, which makes for a very appealing mix. It is so good, there were shivers going down my back while I read it. It doesn’t have a publisher yet, but I know there’s a ton of support out there for this endeavor so cross your fingers and hope the publishing world decides this is a commercially attractive book.
To end I have some excerpts of the film ‘Andrea: Queen of the Mantas’ which was a fascinating Natural World film about a female scientist and the rays she studies. Sadly you can’t see all the film because iPlayer content expires after seven days, but you can see three little bits of it. It’s one of the best natural science programs I’ve seen this year as part of the Year of Biodiversity challenge. Next month actual reading about biodiversity continues as I learn about the full ominous consequences of the disappearing bees.
In a quick reading update I’ve finished ‘Bleeding Violet’ by Dia Reeves, which I think lots of readers will love (strong, sexually aware heroine with very little fear).
I just finished Part Three of ‘Anna Karenina’, a book that makes me change my opinions on its characters every time I open it. I feel a bit of an ‘AK’ slow down coming on now, possibly all that slashing, digging farming description tired me out.
For my third ‘Once Upon a Time’ selection ( so far read ‘Toads and Diamonds’ and ‘Bleeding Violet’) I’ve just started ‘Fledgling’ by Octavia Butler. It’s disturbing, there’s no question about that and I feel the more that’s revealed the harder it will be to read. Butler has created such a different kind of narrative voice from any I’ve ever heard before. Her main character is both distant, separated from life by her odd form of amnesia and almost clinical in her strange rediscovery of knowledge. At the same time she’s so easy to warm to. Maybe it’s the fact that she’s first introduced when she’s alone and hurt. It could be something to do with an adult voice coming from a body described as childish. Not sure. I hope I’ll make it to the end in time for the final ‘Not the TV Book Club’ meeting later this month.