Meg Rosoff's Blog, page 14
August 5, 2011
More How I Live Now Casting…
But only if you live in or around New York City, it appears. Two friends from New York spotted these posters wrapped around lampposts in the Soho and Union Square neighbourhoods.
August 3, 2011
Hands in the air, step away from the Kinder Egg.
My lovely nephew from Palo Alto is going to be very cross about this blog. He's still annoyed at the one I wrote at Christmas complaining that there were too many inane commercials on American TV for Pizza followed by inane commercials for fat reduction surgery. Maybe they should just perform liposuction on the pizza [...]
August 1, 2011
Half man half biscuit.
According to the Daily Mail, British scientists have created more than 150 human-animal hybrid embryos – known as "cybrids" – over the past three years. Animals with human cells implanted develop embryonic stem cells, which can be used to treat a range of incurable human illnesses. Which is good. But I was hoping to get [...]
July 29, 2011
We are them.
My American friends ask whether I've started to feel English after twenty-two years of living in London. Not a bit, I tell them. I love London, I love living in England, I'm proud to own a British passport, but I couldn't feel English even if I wanted to — it's not allowed, any more than pretending [...]
July 26, 2011
Do paedophiles make the best teachers?
The best teacher I ever had in my life
July 25, 2011
Baby Talk
I don't remember if I owned a mobile phone in 1997 when my daughter was born. If I did, it was too early in the communication revolution for it to have become an extension of my hand. Which meant that when my baby and I spent time together, I talked to her. Or sang her [...]
July 22, 2011
A few words on the subject of playsuits.
Are you surprised, dear Blogees, by my choice of topics today? Never really imagined me as the kind of gal who even had an opinion on playsuits or could even say the word without collapsing in either a.) hysteria or b.) feminist rage? Well, perhaps you have forgotten that I have a fourteen-year-old daughter. A fourteen-year-old [...]
July 18, 2011
Countdown.
I thought it would never come. For those of you without a darling fledgling book at home, it might help to think of it a bit like graduation day for your child. You've nurtured the dear one, fed it, seen it off on its first overnight, its week abroad, told it not to take too [...]
Two weeks and counting.
Publication day. August 4th. I thought it would never come. For those of you without a darling fledgling book at home, it might help to think of it a bit like graduation day for your child. You've nurtured the dear one, fed it, seen it off on its first overnight, its week abroad, told it [...]
July 14, 2011
WAFOT (wacky acronyms for our time)
Dear Mumsnet, I have just discovered the list of commonly used acronyms on your website. Well who knew? NAK (Nursing at Keyboard)? Wow. I once spilled a whole cup of coffee on my laptop and this sounds potentially worse. VBAC (vaginal birth after c-section)? Is there a lot of call for that one in everyday parlance? [...]
