News from Sarah Painter
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I want: my own library
I live in a small-ish bungalow, not the Addams Family-style residence of my dreams. Luckily enough, the long central hallway is wide enough for bookcases and this is currently my ‘library’. Along with teetering piles of books by my bed and desk, of course. [Picture via Home Designing] It doesn’t,…
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BOOK NEWS: The Name of the Star by Maureen Johnson
I read a lot of YA fiction. This could be described as arrested development, but I prefer to see it as a sign of a flexible, youthful mind. Stop sniggering at the back. One of my favourite YA authors is Maureen Johnson. She’s funny, clever, inventive, and writes wonderful, quirky-but-always-real…
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TV: Going Postal
I think I knew about this but (somehow) forgot all about it… Which is odd considering Going Postal is one of my favourite Pratchett books and it has perfect casting with Richard Coyle* as Moist and Charles Dance as Vetinari, plus, you know, David Suchet and Tamsin Greig. I think…