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I haven't read it, Louise-Lesley, but I'll stick it on my list, thanks!
Oh and Hi & Welcome!! How rude of me, haha!
Thanks, Lindsay, hi to you too. Any recommendations for me, magical realism or otherwise?
I'm not really sure what Magical Realism encompasses. But fantasy wiseThe Painted Man & Desert Spear by Peter V Brett
The King Killer Chronicles by Patrick Rothfuss
Skulduggery Pleasant by Derek Landy
Just a couple but if you go through my Read shelf there are plenty on there
Thanks very much for the suggestions, Lindsay - I'll check these out. My perspective on MR ranges from The Night Circus to The Lovely Bones, but would probably also include the Susan Hill ghost stories.
Hi Evie!Welcome to the group! I'm DeeDee.
For Magical Realism, I always recommend the early novels of Paul Magrs - the so-called Phoenix Court books. They're increasingly hard to get hold of though. Midnight's Children is also held up as a must-read of the genre (I've not read it, but I've read some of Rushdie's other magical realist stuff.
Hi Evie and welcome to our second home.May I recommend my daughter Sophie's book, A Hole in the World. It fits YA and fantasy. Also, it's a terrific read, but hey, I'm prejudiced.
If you need help finding anything around here, just give a shout, but be warned, you may be run over in the rush.
Hi Evie!I agree with Geoff about Sophie's book and I'm not all prejudiced. It's a great read.
Now Geoff I'd careful of. He's a bit quackers.
Patti (Free Bird) wrote: "Hi Evie!I agree with Geoff about Sophie's book and I'm not all prejudiced. It's a great read.
Now Geoff I'd careful of. He's a bit quackers."
I see what you did there... ;-P
Thanks for the hellos, and hello back! Thanks too for the recommendations - I will definitely check out Sophie's book, and I know of the Magrs books though I haven't read those in a long time so thanks for the reminder.
Rabbit Season.
Duck season.
Pheasant in the garden season, it's eating the grass seed. Bang!
Pheasant for dinner tonight? Or no, you need to hang it for a few days.
Not allowed to shoot this time of the year. Could risk it but might end up down the nick! Oh what a pun.
Sneak up behind it with a large sack, and pounce, silently...
You'll find it difficult sneaking up on a pheasant. At the last place I was working we had one that wandered around the car park till the security guard fed him. If the guard wasn't on time he came over and tapped at the window.So much for bird-brained. He is on my Facebook, Phil the Pheasant.
I did, but I forgot about the silently bit. It turned, looked at me and then made a pheasant type noise and flew off with a mouthful of bird seed. Thanks for the idea. Might go out and get a frozen bit of rabbit for supper instead. Poor second.
Sy knows everything you need to know about sneaking up on The Peasant...
D.D. wrote: "Sy knows everything you need to know about sneaking up on The Peasant..."I think you'll find that's sneaking up *to* The Pheasant. A very different skill DD.
D.D. wrote: "Sy knows everything you need to know about sneaking up on The Peasant..."My thoughts exactly, Deedee
Geoff (G. Robbins) (The noisy passionfruit) wrote: "D.D. wrote: "Sy knows everything you need to know about sneaking up on The Peasant..."I think you'll find that's sneaking up *to* The Pheasant. A very different skill DD."
;-P
Roald Dahl fed pheasants raisins packed with sleeping pills in Champion of the World, a short story from one of his collections.
Aren't you supposed to give them a raisin with a hair threaded through? Can't remember why. Stops 'em dead apparently. I am a mine of half-digested information!
I'm back now after failing with the pheasant and unable to get the frozen rabbit, apparently it's all the rage at the moment and they'd sold out. Have to make do with a stick of old celery and some game paste. Oh maybe a glass of whisky or two later as well. Drat. Can't have that either. Got to drive a bit later. Think I'll crank up the kindle and see if there's anything good on it.
Thats better than being a half-digested pheasant.
Reminds me of a story when my wife and I went to sort out the flat of a deceased bachelor, aged uncle. My wife said, 'one of us has got to clean up the bathroom, one the kitchen.' She said she'd do the kitchen, thinking the bathroom would be worse. Well the bathroom was pretty grim, then my wife screamed. My poor uncle had left a pheasant soaking away in his slow cooker. Ughh. Guess who had to clean it out?
Before I head over to the author zone and then the book promo section, I will introduce myself although much of this will duplicate the info on my Goodreads' author page. I'm Harriet Schultz and I live in Maine, which is in the northeast corner of the U.S. I spent most of my professional life as a journalist, first at Harper's Magazine, then TIME where I was involved with its Watergate coverage and finally at a small weekly where I covered government at its most basic.
Since many accuse reporters of writing fiction anyway, I decided to make up a really long story, which became my first novel (it is okay to name it?), Legacy of the Highlands. I'm thrilled and grateful that it's been well-reviewed and readers seem to like it enough to want a sequel. I'm about halfway finished with that.
My husband and I love to travel and last May we put 1500 miles on our rental car driving around the Scottish Highlands. We've also done some successful home exchanges in Dublin, Paris, California and New York City. We are the parents of boy/girl twins. I think that's enough for now. Or perhaps too much.
It's nice to find this group now that my FREE short story (which has been among the top three best sellers on the Amazon U.S.short fiction list) is available in the U.K.! It's probably against the rules to name it here, so I won't.Harriet Schultz
Nick wrote: "Reminds me of a story when my wife and I went to sort out the flat of a deceased bachelor, aged uncle. My wife said, 'one of us has got to clean up the bathroom, one the kitchen.' She said she'd d..."What an umpleasant pheasant experience!
Hi Harriet - welcome to the fun place. Have a wander round and make yourself at home.
Harriet wrote: "Thank you, Ginger (or Cyber) lily."Just call me Ginger, or GL - most people do.
Hi Harriet and welcome aboard. The reason we ask authors to start their own threads is less to do with the rules and more to do with hearing more about your work.The problem with this part of the forum is that it gets regularly updated and rather full, so it reduces your opportunity to shine, something the Meet the Author thread does far more effectively. This thread also gets deleted fairly regularly, depending upon how far off topic it gets as decided by Simon and Patti.
I think Geoff meant to say 'how far off topic Simon and Patti drag it' ;)Welcome Harriet!
Hello Harriet,Welcome, you are now on the road to becoming one of us!
Assimilated.Resistance is just not worth the bother, really.
Geoff (G. Robbins) (The noisy passionfruit) wrote: "Hi Harriet and welcome aboard. The reason we ask authors to start their own threads is less to do with the rules and more to do with hearing more about your work.The problem with this part of th..."
Thanks for the heads up Geoff. Should I move my intro to my author page then?
Harriet, your author thread is your home where you can post absolutely anything you like.The best bit is we'll always be able to find you in there.
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If anyone out there likes magical realism, then the Evie Woolmore books (http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=ntt_ath...) might interest you.
The next book to go to Kindle from us is a YA Edwardian saga, The Strattons, in about a month's time.
I'm also always looking for magical realism recommendations - less on the fantasy side, more on the paranormal/supernatural/ghost/spiritualist side, so please do share your favourites.
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