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Kirstyn McDermott
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The latest episode of our podcast is now available for direct download and streaming from the website or via subscription from iTunes. Feedback is most welcome!
What a difference a month makes! Since the last episode, your host Ian Mond and his lovely wife, Jules, have brought a little baby girl into the world. Welcome, Sophie Zara! As revealed at the beginning of this episode, Ian seems in be i...
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wrote a new blog post: The Writer and the Critic: Episode 28
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| Sea Hearts is Margo Lanagan writing at her very, very best. The prose is both lyrical and visceral, and the story is a masterful extrapolation from her novella of the same name. Even having read the novella, with its similar base plot, the novel brou...more | |
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| A masterful short story suite which explores what it might really be like to have super powers, or to simply live in a world where others possess them. And it doesn't give too much away to say, it ain't that great, kids! Biancotti imagines a society...more | |
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| This book was recommended by people whose opinion I trust but, to be honest, I still started out expecting not all that much. Teenage beauty queens? Reality TV? Meh. But this is a wonderful book which I enjoyed immensely. Smart and sassy and full of...more | |
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Kirstyn McDermott
rated a book 2 of 5 stars
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (Miss Peregrine, #1)
by Ransom Riggs
read in January, 2012
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A interesting book which starts off well but loses its way somewhere in the middle and doesn't know where it ends up. I love unconventional narrative techniques and was initially intrigued by idea of incorporating found photography into a text, but a...more |
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| Graceful, emotive art underscores a story which often threatens, but skillfully manages to avoid, sentimentalism or schmaltz. I love the ending which isn't neat, which doesn't wrap things up with an all-too-self-aware smirk, which refuses to land in...more | |
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rated a book 4 of 5 stars
The Girl with No Hands (and Other Tales)
by Angela Slatter (Goodreads Author)
read in September, 2010
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Begins here account of reader me, Agent Jacob, located rural area _____, date _____. For official record, here review novel "Pygmy," tenth fictional account written master of mediocrity Chuck Palahniuk, borrowed community literature reposi... " Read more of this review » |
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A luscious, dense reworking of Russian fairy tales. Beautiful prose, beautiful story. For an in depth discussion of Deathless, please listen to my podcast, The Writer and the Critic, episode 1. |
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Not a book for me. An irritating protagonist and too many literary cheats. For an in depth discussion of Feed, please listen to my podcast, The Writer and the Critic, episode 2. |
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