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  • Edna Welthorpe, Internet, Writing

    Writers’ rooms

    17.04.08 | Permalink | Comment?

    Have you ever wondered what a writer’s room looks like? The Guardian has a running feature on the rooms of many authors, like Jacqueline Wilson (very tidy) and Russell Hoban (very messy).

    What does your writing space – assuming you have one – look like?

    I wish mine had Alain de Botton’s chair.


  • Books, Grimm, New

    How do you like your gossip?

    03.04.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

    book coverKymberly, librarian and avid reader of young adult literature, tells me The Luxe by Anna Godbersen is a “nineteenth century version of the Gossip Girl“. Intriguing, I thought: gossip can’t be a 20th Century invention then (previously known as the exchange of vital personal information of a third party, I thought). The inside cover tells me the book contains “pretty girls in pretty dresses, partying until dawn” and “irresistible boys with sly smiles and dangerous intentions” and (this is where the Gossip Girl bit really comes in) “white lies, dark secrets and scandalous hookups”. Very intriguing indeed.

    So if you like your gossip historical as well as extraordinarily up to date, check it out.


  • Books, Internet, Nostalgia, Simon

    Sweet Valley High Strikes Back

    01.04.08 | Permalink | Comment?

    The Sweet Valley High series is to be reprinted and – since it originally came out in the 80s – it will be updated to reflect changes in things like technology and fashion. So instead of the girls writing diaries, phoning one another and wearing pastel leg-warmers, they will write blogs, IM and text, and wear footless tights.

    (We still have many of the original SVH books in the library, if you’re keen.) 


  • Books, Grimm, New

    and also: Demonata 7… and also also: The Carlyles

    05.03.08 | Permalink | Comment?

    Demonata 7 is called Death’s Shadow (Darren Shan – available May 2008). So what’s going to happen? “Bec is back to face the Demonata. After centuries of imprisonment, she’s more powerful than ever, but the demons no longer stand alone. Something else has crawled out of the darkness with her. Lord Loss is no longer humanity’s greatest threat!” (thanks to Amazon.co.uk)

    Visit the author’s site to keep up with the play. Speaking of which, Darren Shan’s pretty with it – he has a myspace account too. The other Demonata books are here.

    The new stuff just keeps pouring in. For a complete change of scenery, the new Gossip Girl book is The Carlyles. The Carlyles are, according to Amazon.com, the “most fabulous sixteen-year-old triplets to ever inhabit the Upper East Side.” The book’s going to be available some time after May this year, but you can reserve it now.

    Book CoversIt’s an unlikely combo, I know: Darren Shan and Cecily von Ziegesar. I couldn’t help wondering what would happen if they got together and collaborated on Demonata #8 / The Carlyles #2… 

    Grimm



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