Why is it not such a good idea to “walk away” from tech platforms like Amazon, Facebook etc? A number of people responded with their own decisions to walk away from these platforms after my last post on Walk Away Syndrome WAS. I’m not here to critique anyone’s personal decisions made for their own healthContinue reading “You should buy your books on Amazon”
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The only good King Arthur movie
There’s a lot to love about John Boorman’s 1981 movie Excalibur The light and color soaked cinematography of Alex Thompson. The magnificent aluminium forged light weight armour or Terry English. That remarkably beautiful cast – Cheri Lungi, Helen Mirren, Nigel Terry, a young Liam Neeson and the marvellously handsome Nicholas Clay. And the extraordinary performanceContinue reading “The only good King Arthur movie”
The top 5 Iain M Banks novels
Over three decades after they were first published, the Culture novels of Iain M Banks are more popular than ever Our first image of Iain M Banks’s Culture universe is a man drowning in sewage: a stark precedent for what was to come. And 30 years after its first publication, Consider Phlebas remains a novelContinue reading “The top 5 Iain M Banks novels”
Holy Cow…where did all these books come from?
Its been ages since I updated my progress working through the infinite pile of books beside my bed, so here goes a brief round-up of the last three months. Firstly, I read something like 120 short stories in various states of completition at Clarion. They were the greatest leaning resource for me as a writerContinue reading “Holy Cow…where did all these books come from?”
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