News from Sarah Painter
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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…
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Quick! Look at the sidebar!
Quick! Look at the sidebar! Notice anything? Something about the word-count thingy-ma-jig? Yes, wise and sharp-eyed one; you are correct. It is complete. It is done. Fini. In truth, the word count is closer to 90,000 and I still need to print it out and do a final copy edit,…