“Run from what’s comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on I’ll be mad.”
I adore Mary’s books. This is now a story encased in a huge volume called WHITE CROW. It is a nameless city somewhere between past and future, a mythic realm at the “heart of the world,” where wicked Rat Lords have reduced all humankind to slaves, and god-daemons make the decision to end all existence. […]
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We are so blessed to be living in this house. It has everything that I’ve ever dreamed of. Including a proper Victorian Pantry. The opposite side of the image above has three shelved cupboards with double glazed doors where the “war reserves” are stored. That’ll be the tins, dry goods, kilner jars of pickles, random […]
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I’m Raging. Quietly. Some third person (!) is being spammed to hell for his latest video. WTF? OK. Sci-Fi is not MY genre but I’ve read Phil K Dick, Ursula le Guin and Mary Gentle. PKD and Ursula were, if not friends, acquaintances. They were both well aware of each others work. Mary Gentle – […]
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Ivanhoe. The novel was written by Sir Walter Scott. Check out Rebecca and her father, Isaac of York. ? TY, BB :o)
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Dinosaurs like me grew up with these old Nursery Rhymes. Agatha Christie used many of them in her book titles. See below. BUT : The line – 5, 6, pick up sticks is monumental to me. Why? Because when you find out the date that 5 turned into 6 and 6 turned into 5 … […]
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I have read and/or listened to just about every novel that Phil Rickman has written. Apart from his John Dee ones! The Remains of an Altar has stayed with me for many reasons. You have an ex-SAS soldier who is now a churchman. You have Merrily doing her Deliverance stuff. You have the ghost of […]
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Vainglory by Geraldine McCaughrean is one of those HistFic books that is a keeper on my shelves. Vainglory : excessive or ostentatious pride especially in one’s achievements. 2 : vain display or show : vanity. This book starts in 1429 (Jehanne d’Arc : Siege of Orléans !) An oft quoted line from this novel is […]
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I have a huge fondness for Ben Jonson. I’ve come across him many times during my research. He was a Wit, a Scholar and a Brainiac ;o) Poor POET-APE, that would be thought our chief,Whose works are e’en the frippery of wit,From brokage is become so bold a thief,As we, the robbed, leave rage, and […]
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If you know the Agatha Christie canon, you will know this book. I read it with the original title. Image above. AND – when I was a very young child, this rhyme was a regular playground game. We knew it off by heart. Back in the day. When we were innocent. I loved playing that […]
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If there is just ONE SINGLE thing that can turn me from a Baconian to an Oxfordian it is THIS… GB 14th March 2019 : Cathars/Starfort/Oxford And Inspector Morse. And Lewis. And AW. AND KEN BRAN x I’ve said before that the authorship of the Shakespeare plays was not important to me. Who ever wrote […]
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I adore the genre Gothic (Horror) and Daphne du Maurier’s book Rebecca is wonderfully Gothic. Searching it on whytoob – I had no idea that Jeremy Brett (Sherlock Holmes, one time husband of Anna Massey – also in the film) and Joanna David (wife of Edward Fox, aunt of Laurence Fox aka Hathaway) had done […]
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Or Foundling. They are one and the same. A child with no parents. HEATHCLIFFE And yes. He was a figment of Emily’s mind but writers write about what they know. Heathcliffe is the Byron of fiction. Mad. Bad. Dangerous to know. THE ANTI-HERO. BTW. May I humbly suggest that you read the book rather than […]
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