tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-77352232990188364512024-03-13T01:27:12.160+00:00We Sat Downfor a chat about books Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05628601066057750860noreply@blogger.comBlogger426125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7735223299018836451.post-7231555021215672332018-04-18T13:36:00.000+01:002018-04-18T13:39:01.470+01:00London Book Fair 2018Yes, finally, I decided to go.<br />
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About 1535 exhibitors and 25 x A5 pages of events. Nielsen holds bibliographic data for over 20 million active titles and reports there are 3000 new publishers in the UK annually. Publishing is big.<br />
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Given this enormity, I made massive inroads over 4 days. I went to:<br />
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<li>5 parties, </li>
<li>1 timetabled meeting, </li>
<li>lots of spontaneous meetings/chats, </li>
<li>about 15 exhibitors stands.</li>
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<li>a walletful of business cards, </li>
<li>a bookful of notes,</li>
<li>a couple of proofs,</li>
<li>a headful of thoughts.</li>
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Introduction to Rights</h4>
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While content is perhaps the essence of publishing – without it there would be nothing – it’s the rights that arise from the creation of that content that aids its distribution and makes the money. Perhaps I should learn a little more about this, I thought. So I signed up to the Introduction to Rights Conference.<br />
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This was an afternoon of intellectual property sessions covering how you acquired rights (where they came from and how you came to possess them), what did these rights actually mean, how you go about selling these rights, and things you should look out for in a contract when buying or selling rights. Now I had a better idea of what was going on that second floor for the next three days of the fair. Nifty stuff.<br />
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Leaving, I bumped into an author from New Zealand who was unhappy with her current publisher, a couple of rights newbies, like me, but from Portugal, China and the USA, and Alastair Horne who’d been at the Quantum Conference. It was good to have quick chats about rights, academic manuscripts and social sciences.<br />
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•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Data capture, audio, and self-publishing: these were the unavoidable phrases that wafted round the bits where my pink-laced soles took me.<br />
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•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Capturing data: everyone is obsessed with it. My badge got scanned before I entered or left many stands. It’s a bit disconcerting when someone reaches out to seemingly grab your midriff. Fight or flight responses challenged. Not sure it ticks the ‘with consent or permission’ box either.<br />
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•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Spotted Paul Black from Andersen Press and introduced myself as Rebecca Stead’s no.1 fan. There’s still no news of another novel from her.<br />
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•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Olympia is big and has many twists and turns. Found some things by accident and others I never found at all.<br />
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•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Visited the South African stand. A fair bit of start-up publishing represented there, showcasing local South African and broader African continental writers. Impressed to see that some of their books were being published in five languages (South Africa has 11 official languages) and that I could recognise the ones that were in Setswana! Interested to hear that in some radio productions they do a ‘back translation’, which is obviously time-consuming, but brings the original author closest to the translated interpretation.<br />
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•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The food outlets in Olympia are very, very expensive, the queues are long and the staff start to lose their cool as the fair progresses.<br />
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•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>I spent a lot of time up at Authors HQ and The Writer’s Block. I expected to find swathes of aspiring writers – and, of course, there were – but in abundance too, and to my surprise – was a large group of ‘traditionally’ published authors grumbling about the lack of support (particularly for marketing) their books, and thinking about pushing out on their own. The support for self-publishing is booming, particularly at the production and marketing ends. Support for selling printed books was another matter – unsurprisingly, and Robin Cutler (Ingram Spark) was recommending authors get together under a collaborative imprint. And, while writers and freelance copy-editors were around, structural editors were not as visible.<br />
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•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Some of the support and tips being dished out to aspiring writers (and especially those who might consider self-publishing) was to be brave and stop procrastinating (LJ Ross), go for walks (Mark Dawson), and maybe write non-fiction (at least, that was Joseph Alexander’s answer to writer’s block!). How do you know when your manuscript is ready? When you start moving punctuation around (Mark Dawson) and that the idea for getting something out there is often more frightening than the reality (LJ Ross). Overall, the advice is to play to your strengths: obvious but probably often overlooked.<br />
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•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>I attended a few of the Business Forum events down in the Olympia Hall (including live marketing campaigns, and non-fiction that matters). I was struck by the prevalence of the big budget teams on the platform (Penguin, Puffin, Southbank Centre, Waterstones). I was a bit surprised by the marketing session, to be honest. I think I expected a lot more of the unexpected.<br />
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•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Other notable moments for me were that The Three Ages of Bookselling event was packed. Unlike some of the other venues, if you didn’t get inside this one, you couldn’t hear – so I left. I also caught bits and pieces of other event snippets all about translation, prizes, illustration, literacy, export, Welsh, magic and legacy.<br />
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•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The parties and networking drinks at the end of the day were packed and provided a real mix of fair goers: Byte the Book reciprocity circle, Author HQ (twice), and the Independent Publishers Guild. Forget the comfy lace-ups, next time I’m taking stilts.<br />
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•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>A security guard on the West entrance really doesn’t like people: he told me.<br />
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Really pleased that I went to this. Learned a lot. I'm so curious to see how I approach it next year!<br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt;">That was M & Little M – a mother and daughter who both love to read. Back in 2012.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt;">This blog began as an exploration of books available to young teens, especially fiction novels. Things had obviously moved on from the days of the Famous Five, Nancy Drew and <i>My Friend Flicka</i> and we didn’t have a clue where to start! Mixed up in this, the blog became a contemporary record of the books we’d read and our thoughts about them (no more handwritten lists stamped with a date!). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt;">We Sat Down focused on books that teens and adults could share as well as adult fiction with a tendency towards the literary. We like to have fun and sometimes mixed up silly bookish nonsenses with more serious contemplations about books and literary awards too.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt;">We became involved in social events held by publishers, represented Booktrust at a Laureate announcement, held an event at a literary festival and M was on the judging panel for the Hot Key Young Writers Prize 2013. We’ve met many friendly and interesting people. And, dreams can come true because We Sat Down became a social book group, run by Little M. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt;">In 2014, life threw us a horrible curveball and we fell off the planet. We bounced back.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt;">M, Melanie, me - I have a bucket list. I'm busy filling it. A forty thousand word, non fiction first draft manuscript has been written. Next steps.....London Book Fair 2018. </span><br />
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down a busy street completely nude, with people pointing and laughing and
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have very long, boring stories. I have one I got to commemorate appearing on a
recording with two of my musical idols, Nick Cave and Iggy Pop. One I got when
I decided to become a writer, to burn the bridge behind me and force me to go
through with it. I have both of my book titles in my title font. I hope this
sounds interesting. They were all done by, uh, a...pirate captain? There you
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nondisposable they are. I use one from the 1940s on a daily basis. You can see
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poignant to me about creations that endure and endure. Plus, they're a southern
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It's years since I read a biography (and I don't think I've ever done it just for fun). Invariably, they're all about celebrities of some sort (generalisation, I know, but still....) but this one! The social researcher inside me was alerted and my brain chemistry was already smouldering.</div>
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<i>A Life Discarded</i> is a wonderful interweaving of the biographer's inner thoughts with those of the unknown diarist. Who were they and, perhaps more intriguingly, why were these diaries dumped (died alone was probably my foremost presumption)?<br />
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The diarist doesn't name themselves, and there doesn't seem to be a clear chronology. This makes for lots of narrative twists and turns, which <i>A Life Discarded</i> uses to good effect. The biography is deliberately written and structured to heighten this sense of intrigue and ever-deepening mystery. Alexander Masters alludes to this intention by offering up, early on, mistakes that he discovers in his assumptions about the diarist's life. Of course, these add an extra element of humour and poignancy to the narrative.<br />
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And, of course, there is the whole question of ethics: entering into the private space of a person's life - these are a lot of diaries; does them being in a skip mean you have been invited or not? And history; again 'of course', how do we make it and record it? How reliable is it, and at what and whose expense? Masters doesn't ignore these issues that are potentially big ethical problems, and includes conversations he's had with his history and philosophy academic friends. Throughout the novel, Masters talks his way through his ever-changing methodology. It feels a bit like the Famous Five Does a PhD, and I was charmed on both counts.<br />
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<i>A Life Discarded</i> brings the diarist's recordings (otherwise discarded both on paper and in their own mind) alive, and also plays a wonderful tribute to important people in Alexander Masters' life, most notably Dido Davies who gave him the diaries and was living with terminal cancer throughout the development of the autobiography.<br />
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I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It's probably one of those where little things about it will stick with me and I'll bring them up in conversation at some point in the future.<br />
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Read further if you want to find out a bit about the diarist. It's a little bit spoilers but not too much. You decide.<br />
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<i><b>Publication details:</b> 2017 (paperback edition), 4th Estate, London</i><br />
<i>This copy: received for possible review from the publisher</i><br />
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<i><b>Spoiler Alert! </b></i><br />
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<i><b>Spoiler ahead!</b></i><br />
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Alexander Masters talks about the diarist as a 'he'. And then he discovers that he is a 'she'. This brings another ethical dimension to the biography, which Masters does not shy away from: a man reading a woman's intimate thoughts and descriptions about her personal life. Oh boy! Frankly, this could have gone so wrong. But, it doesn't.<br />
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<span lang="EN-US">Whittled down from 114 to 20 (whew!), there's a broad mix of genre and age-appropriate books on this year's 80th anniversary Carnegie 2017 medal longlist. Here they are in author's alphabetical order. My initial thoughts follow.</span></div>
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the Terrible Yoot</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Montserrat-Regular;"> by Horatio Clare (Firefly Press)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Guide to Life on Earth</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Montserrat-Regular;"> by Frank Cottrell Boyce (Pan
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Montserrat-Bold;">Unbecoming</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Montserrat-Regular;"> by Jenny Downham (David Fickling Books)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Sparrow </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Montserrat-Regular;">by Zana Fraillon (Orion Children’s Books)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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of Other People’s Houses</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Montserrat-Regular;"> by Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock (Faber
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Me</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Montserrat-Regular;"> by Nick Lake (Bloomsbury)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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at Oktober Bend</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Montserrat-Regular;"> by Glenda Millard (Old Barn Books)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Jupiter</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Montserrat-Regular;"> by Gary D. Schmidt (Andersen Press)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the Sea</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Montserrat-Regular;"> by Ruta Sepetys (Puffin)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the Bear</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Montserrat-Regular;"> by Mimi Thebo (Oxford University Press)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Hollow</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Montserrat-Regular;"> by Lauren Wolk (Corgi)</span><br />
<b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Montserrat-Bold;">The Serpent King</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Montserrat-Regular;"> by
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<li>There's a wide mix here, so I expect the younger years will be as happy as the older years, and the avid readers as drawn is as reluctant readers (although I think the school's get more engaged at shortlisting stage, but the judges have left themselves ample room for mix there too, if that's how things pan out).</li>
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<li>From the 20, I've read five and my early thoughts on them: <i>The Bone Sparrow</i> (loved it, expect shortlisting), <i>The Smell of Other People's Houses</i> (loved it hugely, would love it shortlisted), <i>the stars at oktober bend</i> (a brave little gem, would be very happy to see it shortlisted), <i>Dreaming the Bear </i>(interesting and I can see why it's long listed, but overall, it missed the mark for me), <i>The Serpent King </i>(surprisingly adored this, very much expect a shortlisting). Okay, so I'll have to see if any of the ones I haven't read are even better than these!</li>
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<li><i>Beck</i> - I started this. Mal Peet and Meg Rosoff: what a combo, and I think it works. The writing is fantastic and I expect the plot line will more than hold up. But I stumbled over what I expect will be a controversial scene and stopped. I promise I tried but it was way too graphic for me. I even read it out loud to the family (just in case this was me being being 'just me'). He wasn't keen, Little M a bit fazed but not as much as me. I doubt the primary schools will be looking at this one. A brave (and probably warranted) choice by the judges.</li>
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<li><i>Wolf Hollow</i> -This one popped up time and time again, from all sorts of people saying how exceptional it was. I read a couple of pages in the library and the start is everything I'd expect from a Carnegie book. It's near the top of my reading list. I do not have a review copy so library, here I come.</li>
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<li><i>Whisper To Me</i> - This is on my 'Yes' to read shelf. I really enjoy Nick Lake's books, so it's definitely bumped up a spot or two on my reading list.</li>
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<li><i>Orbiting Jupiter </i>is on my 'Yes' to read shelf, so a bump there too.</li>
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<li>I've read earlier novels by both Ruta Sepetys and Clare Furniss. They were highly readable so their long-lasting has peaked my interest.</li>
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<li><i>Alpha</i> and <i>The Wolves of Currumpaw</i>: these were nominated for the Carnegie and I read them and thought they were both superb. They're not on this longlist but they are on the Kate Greenaway longlist (for illustrated works).</li>
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<li><i>Paper Butterflies</i> by Lisa Heathfield: this is not on the longlist and it's one that I thought might make its way here. It didn't but it's a great read anyway.</li>
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<li>If the author's surname began with a K, V, Y or Z they was little chance of being longlisted because there was only of each on the nominations list. But Zentner nabbed a long-lasting spot.</li>
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<li>If the author's surname began with a C or S, they had much higher chance because they were over-represented on the nominations list. Yes, a few of them have bee shortlisted.</li>
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<li>Wolf or Wolves in the title? Four of them were nominated, <i>Wolf Hollow</i> is longlisted for Carnegie and <i>The Wolves of Currumpaw</i> for Kate Greenaway. </li>
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<li>Not so silly, and not 100% factual, but a quick glance suggests a balance of author gender (of further characteristics, I am unaware).</li>
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Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05628601066057750860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7735223299018836451.post-49476225611515331672017-02-15T17:05:00.005+00:002017-02-15T17:05:45.983+00:00On selective reading....(and the Carnegie)About four months ago, after a horrible spell with disease, I decided to rekindle this blog. It coincided with the Carnegie nominations and so I launched myself in to 'shadowing' from the beginning, as I had done a few years ago.<br />
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Since our 2014 Carnegie cavortings, a few things have changed: I'm doing it alone (that's a bit boring), the nominations list has jumped from 76 to a whopping 114 books, and I hadn't read a single book on the list (so no head starts).<br />
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This meant that I was going to be ultra selective in the books I managed to read: remember, I'm also a slow reader! So this is how my meticulous narrowing down went (yes, I'm a bit like this in real life):<br />
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1. <b>Nominations list announced</b>: already a narrowing down of every 'children's/YA' book published in the last awards calendar year; plus, they've 'met' the criteria for being considered an outstanding piece of children's literature (oh yay, lit crit the fun way!).<br />
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2. Many <b>publishers send me review copies</b> of their nominated titles (yes, it's a marketing and publicity period of the awards) so I focus on these eighty-one (81! Hardly makes a dent!).<br />
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3. I <b>pick up the book</b>, maybe read the blurb, definitely read the first page. This makes three piles: <b>yes, no, maybe</b> (these piles go in boxes and on shelves). The Yes pile: catchy first page (either lyrical, distinctive, or suggestive of subtle humour), or maybe just about a plot or character or theme that interests me (very subjective!). The No pile: voices that whine within the first few sentences, topics or genres that I don't really enjoy, crass humour, first pages that lack a distinct voice. The Maybe pile: neither a Yes nor No but I-don't-think-I'm going-to-have-the-time. And then they're organised by publisher (yep, try to give each one some coverage because, selective as I am, I still try to be a bit fair like that).<br />
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4. I <b>start reading</b> - fast (well, for me). Book after book, and making the odd note. It's a headrush and then things start to get a bit samey (jaded me). I slow down, get off my butt and do some non-sedentary activities that get my heart and head pounding. And then I swap the piles of unread books around a bit because my idea of Yes, No, Maybe has changed a bit (fickle!). Plus, some of the books I was excited about didn't go my way so they've been tried-but-not-finished-and put-in-a-box.<br />
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5. I start some - and quite enjoy them - but for some reason, I'm pulled away from them (this happens a lot) so they get moved to the <b>'with-a-bookmark-still-in-them' shelf</b> (<i>The Bombs That Brought Us Together</i>, <i>Girl on a Plane</i>, and <i>The Dog, Ray</i>). Another couple I started and was quite taken by but haven't finished because I've simply logged them as a couple of books that I might recommend for more age-intended readers than myself (<i>Illuminae</i> and <i>Perijee and Me</i>).<br />
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6. I start <b>running out of time</b> because my mind has drifted to some adult novels and biographies and some new teen titles and I've been doing a lot more heart-pumping and head-pounding stuff and what do you know, it's longlist day tomorrow!!!!! Oh. So, I've reviewed 17, have tried but not liked 11, and still have quite a few that I would genuinely still like to read whether they're longlisted or not. So, yes, my selective reading, often starts with a list (an awards list, a reading list, a curated list, or an advance-copy list.<br />
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7. Everyone will be <b>pleased that I'm not a judge</b> (because I'm so fickle and so slow - plus I'm not a librarian). Longlist tomorrow!<br />
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And I made 3 videos (hen I wasn't reading or doing the heart-pumping stuff) showcasing the 81 (or so) titles that I was sent. I had fun with that and made up some categories to put them in. Some of them I'd read, some of them I'd just contemplated. Here's one of them.<br />
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Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05628601066057750860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7735223299018836451.post-20401611715166012942017-02-14T11:36:00.001+00:002017-02-14T11:38:13.284+00:00The Serpent King - Jeff ZentnerWorking my way through this year's Carnegie nominations list, <i>The Serpent King</i> wasn't at the top of my to-read list. The first page was good but I wasn't too sure about the plot and its religious themes. Plus, I've tried to approach this year's longest with a blank slate (ie. avoiding reviews etc) and I've done quite well. Except for the <i>The Serpent King.</i> And especially once it won the Morris award. I picked this book up not because it appealed to me but because of the favourable criticism it was receiving.<br />
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One of the best things, for me, about <i>The Serpent King</i>, was that it's a novel that I wanted to go and on. I was sad to finish it. At the end, I felt like I knew the characters and I wanted to hear more about their stories. This doesn't happen to me very often anymore (it happened a lot when I was a child/teen reader) so I was quite delighted.<br />
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<i>The Serpent King</i> is primarily Dill's story. He's in his last year at high school, he lives with his mother in poverty stricken conditions, and his father is a religious extremist who's in prison. But, Dill's story is very strongly interwoven with his friends Travis and Lydia such that this is also a novel about a friendship trio in rural Tennessee.<br />
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All three characters are very likeable and quite different from each other. Some wonderful dynamic tensions are played out. Character and friendship-wise, <i>The Serpent King</i> is reminiscent of the styles and interests of other American authors like John Corey-Whaley, John Green and Pat Schmatz.<br />
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What seems particularly distinct, for me, about this novel is the unflinching space the plot gives to an extreme religious faith. Dill's parents are fanatical and, in turn, this has made pariahs of them: not something that's easy to deal especially when you're a teenager. While the narration does not necessarily endorse this way of life, it gives it a very respectable, almost judgment free space. On the other hand, it balances it with Travis' religious family and Lydia's very educated middle class family.<br />
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This novel is full of some sincere and some (slightly) overplayed tragedies, a handful or two of good and bad luck, buckets full of dorky vintage love, a spot of glamour, and making tough and brave decisions. Hugely recommended and I'm keeping my copy.<br />
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Oh, and it's in third person - if that's the kind of thing that matters to you.<br />
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<i><b>Publication details:</b> Andresen Press, 2016, London, paperback</i><br />
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I loved this novel from beginning to end and thought it was
one of the best books I’d read for a while. So, I waited for a few weeks before
I wrote this review, just in case that feeling wore off. It didn’t. Jointly
authored by Sarah Crossan and Brian Conaghan, <i>We Come Apart</i> is a clever little
book, combining voice and verse beautifully.<br />
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<i>We Come Apart</i> is the story of a London mascara-stealing girl
and a Roma gypsy-boy immigrant who unexpectedly find themselves on the same
community service programme. Through their contrasting perspectives and homelives,
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The two distinct voices of Nicu and Jess are captured
perfectly by the pairing of Crossan and Conaghan’s very different styles. You
are in no doubt which character is speaking. Nicu’s voice takes a little
getting used to but it’s possibly my highlight of the novel.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Perfect for fans of <i>The Weight of Water</i>, <i>One</i> and Stephen
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It’s out in hardback in Feb 2017. If you’re not a hardback
buyer, jot this one down for its paperback release. You’ll not forget
about it because it’ll be turning up in all the award listings, I’m sure.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>All About Mia</i> is all about Mia and her sibling rivalry. Mia
is a sixth former, and is a middle sibling. Her older sister is a perfect, high
achieving academic heading off to Cambridge and her younger sister is a quiet,
tween swimmer with eyes on the Olympics. Mia, on the otherhand, is popular,
curvaceously flirty, and her only talent appears to be consuming high volumes
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The first page is brilliant. I loved it. Turn over and it’s
about a teenager who wants to get drunk on a Friday night. Eye roll on my part
but I stick with it. It makes me smile a lot and not too long later, I’ve
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Often, I find it difficult to read – and so rarely finish -
novels with main characters like Mia whether they be child, teen or adult. They
have chips on their shoulders, gripes about everyone and everything and they think
that the world owes them everything. Yes, it’s all about them. Many times, these
novels end up with a whingey, whiney and bitter tone that I find grating. But
<i>All About Mia</i> is different and manages to avoid this tone possibly because the
narration doesn’t overly indulge Mia’s chips.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The novel is filled with wonderful, warmly flawed characters.
Additionally, <i>All About Mia</i> portrays characters, school life and family drama
in a way that I believe. <o:p></o:p></div>
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There is plenty of high drama too covering everything from sibling
rivalry, alcohol abuse, cheating friends, teen pregnancy, being dealt
consequences and how to get a grip and feel comfortable in your own skin (or
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I’d heartily recommend it to teenagers and young adults. I
would feel very comfortable buying this for almost any teenager, whether I knew
their personal reading habits or not.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i><b>Publication details:</b> David Fickling Books, Oxford, 2 Feb
2017, hardback<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "georgia"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><b>John Corey Whaley:</b> Well, I believe
she spoke gibberish, so I never actually knew what the curse was--and, look,
who's to say she didn't bless me or something? I have no idea. She
grabbed my hand, chanting something nonsensical, and walked away. I guess
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "georgia";"><b>John Corey Whaley:</b> Coffee---and I like it with cream and a little sugar, maybe some coconut oil. Please no almond milk in there. Please.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #3e003f; font-family: "georgia"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><b>WSD: If you know any Star Trek
jokes, can you please tell me one (or two) so that I can repeat it and impress
my friends and family?</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "georgia"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><b>John Corey Whaley: </b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "georgia"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">What did Captain Picard say to the
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "georgia"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><i>Make it sew. </i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "georgia"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">(That's the only one I know and
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #3e003f; font-family: "georgia"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><b>WSD: What books should be on every
responsible reader's shelves?</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "georgia"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><b>John Corey Whaley:</b> Mine. I'm
KIDDING. I think a responsible reader is someone who reads a wide list of
authors from around the world--who write for different age groups, fiction or
non-fiction. Poetry too--a responsible reader has books of poetry and the
sciences and maybe a weird book about birds or contagious diseases thrown in
the mix. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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illogical thing you've ever done (or one of them)?</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "georgia";"><b>WSD: OK, he likes dogs so so he gets the big thumbs up! My review of <i>Highly Illogical Behaviour</i> is <a href="http://wesatdown.blogspot.co.uk/2016/11/highly-illogical-behaviour-john-corey.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</b></span></div>
Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05628601066057750860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7735223299018836451.post-57320396182468459892017-01-26T00:00:00.000+00:002017-01-26T00:00:13.398+00:00The Memory Book – Lara AveryTwo young adult novels out this month featuring <i>Memory</i> in
the title. Having limited time, this is the one whose first page drew my
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<i>The Memory Book</i> is exactly what it says. It’s a fiction
about Samantha McCoy, 17, the smartest girl in school, a champion debater and
she’s been diagnosed with a memory loss disease, a kind of dementia. She writes
<i>The Memory Book</i> (or types it on her laptop) to her future herself, as a way to
remind her who she is and what she did.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Sammie is a very determined girl, and her voice is
snappy-smart but without the snark, a combination that I liked. I was a bit
wary about the disease element (yeah, there are a few of those around and once
you’ve read a few they can get tiresome: sorry, I’m feeling jaded) but I
thought that it actually worked really well. A bit like many young adult novels
featuring very ill teenagers, this is a novel about making the most of your
life while you can and I felt that <i>The Memory Book</i> really pulled this off.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Interestingly, it made me think a bit quite a bit about
dementia, not so much in young people, but in old people and how it might
affect them in the little and big ways. Of course, it also made me think about giving life your best shot always.<o:p></o:p></div>
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There’s an interesting thread in the novel about first love
and crushes (obviously!) although they left me wondering whether or not Sam
ever really decided which was which. But does that matter anyway, whether it’s
a crush or love (that’s me thinking through after reading as it’s not directly
raised in the novel)?<o:p></o:p></div>
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I imagine this would appeal to readers who are competitively
determined – or who like debates. I would definitely recommend it to anyone who
is on a debate team, or trying to get on a debate team. Samantha McCoy is
exhausting!<o:p></o:p></div>
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Yep, I really enjoyed this novel: page-turning,
thought-provoking and poignantly wistful.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i><b>Publication details:</b> Quercus, 26 January 2017, London,
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I am a browser and sometimes I find something that takes me by surprise. And so I happened upon Oxford University Press's <i>How To Write Your Best Story Ever</i>, which was published earlier this month. When I was a child, there was never as much guidance on developing your talents like there is today, and so I'm quite unfamiliar with fiction writing guides for 7-13 year olds. So I took a close look.<br />
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<i>How To Write Your Best Story</i> ever is not an activity journal, which is what I was expecting. There is no place intended for you to start scribbling down ideas. No. In keeping with OUP's dictionaries, <i>How To Write Your Best Story Ever</i> is definitely a reference book to prompt you, inspire you and help you along the way in, well, writing your best story ever with whatever writing instruments you choose.<br />
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It's a busy book (perhaps a bit busy for my eye, but I was 7-13 a long time ago!) full of colour, illustrations and chunked tips and guidance. Succinctly, it uses double spreads to tell you about the intricacies of the elements that make up a good story - and how you can get there. One of the things I liked most (there were a few), was that it devotes a few pages to writing all the different genres including Scripts and Mash-ups. It offers vocabulary to inspire you - and to challenge you - in crafting these different types of stories.<br />
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A couple of the other things that I really liked: quotes from a variety of different novels and authors (as well as Christopher Edge, who authored this book and some jolly good novels) are included as real examples of how to apply the suggestions so that you can see what the language looks like in a real live (and published) setting; and, all the way through it gives friendly reminders about the basic elements of the English language and how to identify and use them to improve your writing.<br />
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Really nice.<br />
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<i><b>Publication details:</b> January 2017, Oxford University Press, Oxford, paperback</i><br />
<i>This copy: received from the publisher for possible review</i>Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05628601066057750860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7735223299018836451.post-37230793832847205082017-01-19T00:00:00.000+00:002017-01-19T00:00:06.129+00:00We sat down for a chat...with Lisa Heathfield<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">
<span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><i><b>Lisa Heathfield</b>, author of the emotionally charged and spellbinding Carnegie nominated </i><b><a href="http://wesatdown.blogspot.co.uk/2016/11/paper-butterflies-lisa-heathfield.html" target="_blank">Paper Butterflies</a></b><i>, joins us today to talk a little about her novel.</i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1a1a1a; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><b>WSD: Bicycles hold a significant value
for characters in <i>Paper Butterflies</i>. What was so 'dear' to you when you were a
teenager (or now, if you can't remember)?</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1a1a1a; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><b>Lisa Heathfield:</b> I know that it's a bit
obvious to say it, but books were always my most important possessions as a
teen. The all held precious words and worlds. I still never bend a spine
or fold pages!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1a1a1a; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><b>WSD: If someone gave you a paper
sculpture, what do you wish it would be?</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1a1a1a; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><b>Lisa Heathfield:</b> My perfect paper
sculpture would have to be of our three sons. Although, I think that'd be
fairly impossible even for Blister, so failing that I'd opt for a Scottish
mountain.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1a1a1a; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><b>WSD: Do monsters exist?</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1a1a1a; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><b>Lisa Heathfield:</b> I don't think that anyone
is born bad, but so called 'monsters' are created out of circumstance. If all
children had the very basics of being looked after and loved, then many
'monsters' would never exist. There's a cycle of abuse, where the child who has
suffered often acts out that very same abuse in adulthood - the way to
break it is to talk about it, blast it out into the open where the secrets have
nowhere to hide.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1a1a1a; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><b>WSD: In my review, I omitted to mention
anything about race although June's abuse was often linked directly to her
being 'black'. Would you like to say more about 'racism' as a theme in <i>Paper
Butterflies</i>?</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1a1a1a; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">Lisa Heathfield: Writing about racism in
<i>Paper Butterflies</i> was never a conscious decision. June appeared to me one day
and asked me to tell her story. She was as clear to me as if she'd just walked
into the room - feisty, guarded and strong. I didn't choose her skin
colour any more than I chose her character. And it hurt to watch her
suffer racism at school as much as it hurt to see her suffer at the hands of
Kathleen, her step-mother. Thank goodness for her bike. Thank goodness for
Blister.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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and intense relationship. Who are some of your favourite fictional couples,
either friends or lovers?</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1a1a1a; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><b>Lisa Heathfield: </b>For me, Liesel and Rudy
in Markus Zusak's <i>The Book Thief</i> are unforgettable. Their
relationship is beautiful in a time of brutality. But it's completely
heartbreaking. And I love Tessa and Adam in Jenny Downham's <i>Before I Die</i>.
I read it years ago and cried and cried. I still think about them. I also
love Saba and her brother Lugh in <i>Blood Red Road</i> - her
fierce determination to find him in the incredible world that Moira Young
created. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1a1a1a; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><b>WSD: Craziest thing you've ever done in
a library?</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1a1a1a; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><b>Lisa Heathfield:</b> I've never done
anything crazy in a library! But seeing my book in libraries is like my
craziest dream coming to life!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a;">Paper Butterflies<i> has been nominated for the 2017 Carnegie medal.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><i>Read my review <a href="http://wesatdown.blogspot.co.uk/2016/11/paper-butterflies-lisa-heathfield.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</i></span></div>
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Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05628601066057750860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7735223299018836451.post-59269245515568947932017-01-12T10:04:00.001+00:002017-01-12T12:41:29.489+00:00We sat down for a chat...with Zana Fraillon<i>I loved <b>Zana Fraillon</b>'s </i><b><a href="http://wesatdown.blogspot.co.uk/2016/11/the-bone-sparrow-zana-fraillon.html" target="_blank">The Bone Sparrow</a></b><i>, a tale about a young boy born in a refugee detention centre and a young rural girl in Australia. The novel epitomises what I'm starting to consider my favourite elements of Australian teen/young adult fiction so I'm absolutely delighted to have asked her some questions and to share them here today.</i><br />
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="color: black;"><b>WSD: You've written about refugee children and your
inspiration for <i>The Bone Sparrow</i>, and particularly Subhi. Could you say
something about your inspiration for Jimmie and her story? For me, it is she
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="color: black;"><b>Zana Fraillon:</b> I really love Jimmie as a character. While
she is distinctly her own self, there are many similarities between Jimmie’s
life and Subhi’s life, and I think they recognise this in each other. Jimmie is
growing up surrounded by grief; she has the sense of being almost forgotten by
society; she is desperately trying to get a sense of her past and her family’s
past so that she can step forward into the future; and despite everything, she
is so strong, and so resilient. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="color: black;">In the same way I wanted to write about children growing up
in immigration detention centres, I knew for a long time that I also wanted to
write about kids growing up in a really remote area, where the usual support
networks don’t exist. In Australia, there are many remote communities whose
people are living in third world conditions and whose life expectancies are
dramatically lower than people living in other parts of Australia. John
Pilger’s amazing documentary 'Utopia' is a very eye opening insight into the
conditions of many remote communities, and many people – both in and out of
Australia – are not aware of this hugely important social issue. While I wasn’t
able to go into great detail of this issue in <i>The Bone Sparrow</i>, it was
something I felt I could touch upon and shed just a little light on in the
context of the story.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-AU" style="color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="color: black;"><b>WSD: You've talked about the resilience of childhood and
their ability to imagine and hold onto a 'someday'. When you were a child, what
was one of your 'somedays' that you dreamed about?</b></span><span lang="EN-AU" style="color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="color: black;"><b>Zana Fraillon:</b> My someday was all about travel and getting
away. I imagined the far away places I would discover – remote places, away
from everyone and everything, wild, natural places where I could be completely
myself. I always wanted to have kids of my own and imagined a large,
gloriously happy family full of kids and dogs. On a recent trip overseas we
went to Ireland, and while travelling through the countryside there, I felt an
incredible sense of being ‘home’. This was exactly the kind of place I
imagined my ‘someday’ unfolding. There is still time…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="color: black;"><b>WSD: You've mentioned being a fan of Isabel Allende (yes!)
and discovering magical realism through her and how it finds a place in your
books. Can you say a bit about what draws you to magical realism (and do you
think there's more magic or more realism in it)?</b></span><span lang="EN-AU" style="color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="color: black;"><b>Zana Fraillon:</b> I have always been drawn to magic. That idea
that there are other worlds and other existences and other possibilities just
hiding in the shadows is so exciting! As a kid I slept curled up with a garden
gnome (who still lives with me, although no longer shares my bed) and used to
climb out my second story window and leap across to a huge tree that grew
outside and was definitely full of fairies. I suppose magical realism gives me
a way, now I no longer have a fairy tree outside my window, of believing that
there just may be magic in this very real world we live in. I am not at all
religious, so perhaps this is my religion of sorts! This was another bonus for
us when we visited Ireland – where we stayed had a lot of information regarding
the Sidhe (the fairy people of Ireland) who, in some parts, are very much
believed in, and respected and feared. I love this idea. The notion that you
have to divert a road to go around a fairy thorn, rather than cut down the tree
and risk the Sidhe’s wrath – it was a little like living in a story, where
anything is possible because the world is more than what it seems.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="color: black;">I think the reason I love magical realism, but rarely enjoy
fantasy, is because of the wonderful balance between the magic and real. There
is that sense that the magical phenomenon could almost be explained by other,
more real worldly explanations, but then, perhaps, just perhaps, they really
are magic…I love that feeling of not knowing, and then that freedom of giving
in to the magic. It gets me excited just thinking about it!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="color: black;"><b>WSD: If someone gave you a necklace, what would you like it
to be and why?</b></span><span lang="EN-AU" style="color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="color: black;"><b>Zana Fraillon:</b> Something with a story behind it. Something
that has passed through countless hands, had hopes and dreams whispered into
it, been rubbed in excitement or anxiety or fear. I majored in history at
university and am very much drawn to the ghosts of places and things. I quite
often (much in the same way Jimmie does) sit on a rock and imagine all the
other people that have sat on that very same rock, trying to fly my imagination
as far back as it will go, trying to breathe in that person’s story. So an old
necklace. A simple necklace, but one that has something to say…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-AU" style="color: black;">WSD: Please tell us about the mysterious passageways of
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="color: black;"><b>Zana Fraillon:</b> I wish I knew more about them! But
Melbourne, as with most cities, has an incredible hidden history. There is a
huge network of underground tunnels and drains – there is talk of an old,
beautifully decorated train station right under what is now the CBD, although
its exact whereabouts is currently unknown. There are alleyways and hideouts of
local criminal gangs from the turn of the century, and then other smaller
laneways that you can wander down and suddenly find yourself surrounded by
quite incredible, and usually surreal, street art that makes you feel as though
you have stepped into another world all together. And of course there are then
all those doors – the ones that are in odd walls, or at curious heights or are
just a very strange size for a door, and they make you wonder where they lead,
and who are they for and why are all these people walking past without
noticing?! But all of them, the lanes and the passageways and the tunnels and
the doors – they all have stories in them, just waiting for us to discover. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="color: black;"><b>Thank you so much, Zana, and wishing you all the best for reaching your 'someday'!</b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU" style="color: black;"><a href="http://wesatdown.blogspot.co.uk/2016/11/the-bone-sparrow-zana-fraillon.html" target="_blank">The Bone Sparrow</a> <i>is published in UK paperback today and has been nominated for the 2017 Carnegie medal,</i></span></div>
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Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05628601066057750860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7735223299018836451.post-48053598923566973152017-01-10T09:02:00.000+00:002017-01-10T09:18:00.413+00:00Wing Jones - Katherine Webber<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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Katherine Webber's debut novel, <i>Wing Jones</i>, is a delicious mix of ingredients. Based in 1990s Atlanta, the main teen characters are all mixed race or black, there's an inter-racial relationship, there's binge drinking and suspenseful moments of gun-toting. But, there's also - and primarily - a naive and painfully vilified fifteen year old girl who is relentlessly bullied, is mocked by her loving Ghanaian and Chinese grandmothers, has a girlhood crush on her popular brother's best friend, and she calls on her dragon and lioness to help her through the most tragic events of her life. Wrap all of this up in Jessica Ennis 'this girl can' attitudes to sport and sprinkle with happy bliss. Then you've met Wing Jones.<br />
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<i>Wing Jones</i> is a pleasure to read. Katherine Webber's writing flows, and she creates immediately likeable characters. Prejudiced attitudes to race and what constitutes criminal activity form central parts of the story without being tackled as 'issues'. The tragic event*, which provides a plot turning point, covers an issue I don't think I've seen in YA before (I'm sure it is out there though) and is tragically very real. Curiously, and despite these elements of the plot (which were my favourite), the overall tone in <i>Wing Jones</i> is cosily warm and those who love cute couples will no doubt be charmed.<br />
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*See below for small plot spoiler about the tragic event......<br />
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<i><b>Publication details: </b>5 January 2017, Walker Books, London, paperback</i><br />
<i>This copy: uncorrected proof from the publisher for review</i><br />
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Tragic event: drinking and drivingMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05628601066057750860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7735223299018836451.post-58016899467022152042016-12-17T00:00:00.000+00:002016-12-17T00:00:19.022+00:00Alpha in translation - part 2, Sarah Ardizzone<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: .1pt; mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd; mso-para-margin-left: 0cm; mso-para-margin-right: 0cm; mso-para-margin-top: .01gd;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "cambria";"><i>Yesterday, author Bessora chatted a bit about herself and writing </i>Alpha<i>. Today, in part 2, translator <b>Sarah Ardizzone </b>goes behind the scenes to tell us about </i>Alpha<i>'s artistic and cultural development. her answers are really fascinating. </i></span></div>
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gathered that you were the person championing the idea of translating <i>Alpha</i>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "cambria"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Sarah Ardizzone:
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was published in France just before the great wave of desperate migration or
what we think of as the ‘migrant crisis’ (which you could say began in the
summer of 2015). It stemmed from an encounter that Barroux had with Togola, a
migrant who spent time at the artists’ squat in Paris where Barroux had his
studio space. It came into artistic life thanks to the creative collaboration
between Barroux and Bessora (they’d met at a book fair, where Barroux had
sensed that Bessora, with her research background as an anthropologist, was the
right person to ‘write’ <i>Alpha</i>’s story). This is important, because the story is
not a deliberately ‘timely’ response to world events (although it turned out to
be uncomfortably prescient). Rather, it is an organic tale that two artists at
the top of their game felt compelled to tell. Barroux was moved by a personal
encounter; Bessora became immersed in the research aspect, in order to be
sufficiently informed for her fiction to work its truth.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> Translator, Sarah Ardizzone</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "cambria"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">For me, reading the French
version for the first time at home in Brixton (South London) in 2014, it chimed
on every level. Firstly, it rendered the excruciating journey that so many
people embark on – out of sheer desperation, when they have no option left but
to leave their country behind - very concrete and palpable. Whereas the term
‘migrants’ tends to ‘translate’ these people into faceless statistics. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "cambria"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Secondly, it was incredibly
exciting to witness the development of Barroux’s artistic style as he tackled a
very different topic from the last project on which we had collaborated: the
found diary of a WW1 soldier (</span><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "cambria";"><a href="http://www.lineoffirebook.com/"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">http://www.lineoffirebook.com/</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "cambria"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">). Barroux always enjoys a
challenge with every new book, and this time it was about creating a diary in
transit by an Ivorian man using the kinds of materials (cheap notebooks, and a
packet of felt-tips) he might have been able to access. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "cambria"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Thirdly, and perhaps for me
most intriguing of all, was being introduced to a writer whose work I didn’t
know, but in whose presence I instantly felt comfortable: Bessora brilliantly
performs the high-wire act of plotting her searing tale without the characters
ever becoming ciphers; of investing in crucial research but ensuring that her
text wears it lightly; of politicizing her readers without telling them what to
think. Her prose is stripped back, so that it can be a true partner to
Barroux’s images – she makes the space for words and pictures to co-exist. And
yet her humanity, her humour, her affection for her characters is never far
from reach.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "cambria"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">All of which to say, what I
knew I had in my hands in Brixton was a book that <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">mattered</i>, had been impeccably served by two great artists, and that
it was going to be my job to get it out into the English speaking world.
Barroux’s and my long-term publisher had changed careers, so we needed to find
a new publisher. The children’s publishers I spoke to felt the subject-matter
was too tough for their readers, while my concern with the grown-up publishers
was whether they’d truly invest in and make all the noise around this book that
it deserved. Enter the brand new YA imprint, The Bucket List, at Barrington
Stoke!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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You run a variety of interactive translation projects. Do you see performance
(and maybe iteration) as being part of a translation process?</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "cambria"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><b>SA:</b> Well, one of those
interactive translation projects was literally what catapulted <i>ALPHA</i> into
securing a UK publisher. At London’s Southbank Centre, I’d been involved in
curating something called </span><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "cambria";"><a href="http://www.lineoffirebook.com/translation/"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The Spectacular Translation Machine</span></a></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "cambria"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "cambria"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">(scroll down to find out more). This was about getting translation into
public spaces, making it visible, encouraging people to engage with it and… oh
yes, asking the general public to translate Line of Fire from scratch across
two weekends, no matter how much or little French they had – starting with the
images. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "cambria"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">When the Edinburgh International Book Festival invited myself and
co-curator, </span><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "cambria";"><a href="http://www.danielhahn.co.uk/"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Daniel Hahn</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "cambria"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">, to create a Spectacular Translation Machine in their
Author’s Retreat tent, I knew I wanted to see how <i>ALPHA</i> would fare up there.
And, within moments of Mairi Kidd, MD of Barrington Stoke, walking into the
tent, it seemed we’d interested a prospective publisher. So, in that sense,
‘performance’ – turning <i>Alpha</i> into a public spectacle – is precisely what led
to it being translated.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "cambria"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">We then went on to create
<i>Alpha The Spectacle </i>(apologies for the confusing double use of ‘spectacle’)
which is a staging of the book, with Barroux drawing live (his work projected
onto a big screen by a visualiser), a wonderful actor called Thierry Lawson
playing the part of Alpha, and a kick-ass musical soundtrack supervised by
Carole Mendy, whose musical roots lie in Marseille.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "cambria"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">All these stages are
performative and acts of translation – getting a story out to a different
audience in a different way. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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hearing the text of <i>Alpha</i> spoken as actor’s lines of course focused my
attention back onto the quality and lexical choices of my translation. We were
freely able to change those lines for the live performance. If <i>Alpha</i> is lucky
enough to have a second print-run, I would hope that some of those changes
would also make it into the printed text.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<pre><span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: medium;">WSD: Haha, that IS funny! I'm definitely looking forward to seeing more collaborations from you and Bessora.</span></b></span></pre>
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<pre style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: medium;">To find out more about Alpha, go here:<a href="https://draft.blogger.com/goog_4131557"> </a></span></span><a href="http://www.thealphabook.org/">http://www.thealphabook.org</a></pre>
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Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05628601066057750860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7735223299018836451.post-40554713846372622632016-12-16T00:00:00.000+00:002016-12-16T00:00:10.418+00:00Alpha - in translation: part 1, Bessora<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "cambria"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Alpha<i> is a graphic novel, originally published in French and now published in English by The Bucket List. It's a straightly told story about a man who unwittingly becomes a refugee. It's award-winning and it's wonderful; and I'm delighted to have asked the <b>author,</b> <b>Bessora</b>, and the <b>translator, Sarah Ardizzone</b>, a few questions about its development (and themselves). </i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "cambria"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><i>Today, it's <b>Bessora</b>'s turn with a couple of interjections from Sarah when search engines led to things getting out of hand! </i></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bessora talking about Alpha on BBC Authors Live</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "cambria"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b>WSD: <i>Alpha</i> has become much more than a book. Anything
to say about this?</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "cambria"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b>Bessora: </b>A book
should always be more than a book: it is a 3D universe, a reflection of life,
characters are flesh and blood, with a story bearing a deep theme. Here, it is
a guy who puts his life at stake for a better life: disorders of the world,
migrations, everyone is concerned. I’m so glad to see that this book has a
“life” beyond the book itself. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "cambria"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b>WSD: I'm imagining that in translating, you're going
to lose 'something' from the original story but gain 'something' in the new
language (aside from a new and different audience!). What do you think you
might have 'lost' but also 'gained' in your translation of <i>Alpha</i>?</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<pre style="text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><b>Bessora: </b>A translation is an adaptation, and a creation. So it has to betray more or less the original work. </span><span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12pt;">I do not believe that Alpha has lost anything in the translation: it is rather a new breath. In the end, when I read it, I recognized my story, but I also felt like I was discovering something new.</span></pre>
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in terms of the translation? Or did you have to put your trust in Sarah (and
her reputation)?</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "cambria"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">B<b>essora: </b></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "cambria"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><i>Alpha</i> is a "simple" text, there is
no hidden meaning to words or phrases. Sarah did not need me to explain
anything to her. Trust is implicit: a translator is an author who also
exercises his freedom of creation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "cambria"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">WSD: </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "cambria"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b>Without
proficiency in French and without a Sarah, I have used Google translate to read
your biography on your website. It is hilarious and interesting. I don't quite
understand what happened to your reproductive organs but I think it might be
along the lines of madwomen in attics? </b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<pre><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><b>Bessora:</b> Ask Sarah what she thinks of Google Translate. I share the same opinion! Maybe you did not understand what happened to my reproductive organs because Google translate did not capture the mood of the text! Hooray, it'll never replace a professional translator!<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
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<pre><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12.0pt;">To tell you everything, I do not remember what I told about my reproductive organs (maybe that they were stressed !). <o:p></o:p></span></pre>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "cambria";">Sarah Ardizzone: </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "cambria";">So the greatest description of Google Translate I’ve ever come across was told to me by a Year 6 (final year primary school) student, who I met at a translation workshop in Essex. ‘The thing is, Sarah,’ she informed me with terrifying assurance, ‘Google Translate doesn’t do <i>flair</i>, and it can’t do <i>voice</i>’.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "cambria";">As for Bessora’s reproductive organs, that all depends on what you’re translating: her language, her soaring imagination, or her mordant wit?</span></div>
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<pre><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><b style="white-space: normal;">WSD: Have any of your other writings been translated into English?</b></span></pre>
<pre><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><b>Bessora:</b> <i>Alpha</i> is the first of my texts to have been translated into English. Others will follow I hope!<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "cambria"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b>WSD: Here’s Bessora, explaining a bit about herself:</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "cambria"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Bessora, lunatic author with variable
geography Last book in English : Alpha ! Last book written in French
(but very easy to read for English speaking people…): <i>Nicolas</i> !<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<pre><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Bessora, a fanciful author with variable geography. Tragedy, comedy, short story or comic, she can do it all! Latest comic translated in English by Sarah: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Alpha</i>. Last novel in French: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Le Testament de Nicolas (Nicolas’s Will</i>)!<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></pre>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "cambria"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">SA:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "cambria"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> Which Sarah
also hopes to translate!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "cambria"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><i>Tomorrow, come back for Part 2 to find out more from Sarah Ardizzone about the
background and artistic development of Alpha, and her role in championing it for translation and publication
in English.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05628601066057750860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7735223299018836451.post-15220314900042113482016-12-13T11:00:00.000+00:002016-12-13T11:00:46.707+00:00A Boy Called Christmas - Matt Haig & Chris Mould<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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When I first read the blurb: "You are about to read the true story of Father Christmas" and I saw that it was authored by Matt Haig, I knew I wanted to read this. From the very first page, I was smitten.<br />
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<i>A Boy Called Christmas</i> is rollicking good fun, full of laughs for child and adult alike on every page, (and Haig has taken the opportunity to poke fingers at the state of the international nation). It's also an adventure quest story, perfect for shared bedtime reading - or cosying up under the Christmas tree. And Chris Mould provides plenty of illustrated pages.<br />
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For anyone who's been wondering how to chat about the way we treat outsiders to young children - without getting all politicised - this could be a fun place to start.<br />
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If you believe in Father Christmas - the old man dressed in white and red, whose reindeers like Donner and Cupid and Blitzen (okay, Cupid might not be mentioned in this book!) fly him through the night delivering gifts to children who've been good; if you believe in the potential of humanity to be a generous and giving species; if you believe in the possibilities for little boys and girls to go out and become who they want to be; and if you really like a bit of mischievous fun about how things came to be, chances are you'll love this little book.<br />
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There is an elf swear word in the novel: impossible.<br />
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<i>A Boy Called Christmas</i> has been nominated for the 2017 Carnegie medal.<br />
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<i><b>Publication details:</b> 2016, Canongate, Edinburgh, paperback</i><br />
<i>This copy: received for review from the publisher</i>Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05628601066057750860noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7735223299018836451.post-41661054458842279092016-12-12T12:27:00.002+00:002016-12-12T12:27:39.522+00:00Dreaming the Bear – Mimi Thebo<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dreaming the Bear - Mimi Thebo</td></tr>
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<i>Dreaming the Bear</i> is a quick read about a teenage girl, Darcy, who’s recovering
from pneumonia after begrudgingly moving to Yellowstone National Park in its
deep winter snow. She stumbles across an injured bear and things get a little
more complicated.<br />
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Darcy seemingly moves in
and out of bodily consciousness and this is interestingly written and quite
atmospheric too. Her narration of the overwhelming and consuming tiredness that can accompany debilitating illness is conveyed very convincingly. Her relationship with
the bear is an interesting one. It provides a storyline with heartstring-pull moments (oh yes, I did cry) and explores worthy questions about wildlife
habituation but I didn't feel this was as richly conveyed as Darcy's consciousness was, perhaps because the novel is quite short. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Characterwise, Darcy, perhaps justifiably, is a whinger. Yes, she is ill but she’s very spoilt too: it’s
in her tone, in her thoughts and in her shopping behaviour so I struggled to
warm to her. Sometimes that matters when I read a book. In terms of character
development, she does change and she does become more aware of the different
ways of life around her. <o:p></o:p><br />
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The cover and the size of the book made me think this was a middle grade novel but I think the interest level is perhaps for readers older than 9 or 10 years, and definitely for teens too.</div>
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Dreaming the Bear <i>has been nominated for the 2017 Carnegie
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<i><b>Publication details:</b> Oxford University Press, 2016, Oxford,
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<span style="text-indent: -1cm;"><i>Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock's debut novel, <a href="http://wesatdown.blogspot.co.uk/2016/12/the-smell-of-other-peoples-houses.html" target="_blank">The Smell of Other People's Houses</a>, paints a superbly grounded sense of teenage life in small town 1970s Alaska. We asked her a few questions and she's even shared her favourite fish recipe too!</i></span><br />
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Hitchcock:</b> </span></span></span><span style="text-indent: -1cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1a1a1a; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">One is low bush cranberries growing wild near Fairbanks Alaska. It
almost smells like the whole forest is moldy and ripe, which some people really
dislike, but if I’m walking on the trails near Fairbanks and smell that peaty
foliage ALL of my childhood memories come flooding back.</span></span><span style="color: #1a1a1a; text-indent: -1cm;">I also
love the smell of cardamom, reminding me of time I spent in Kathamandu where it
wafted through the air from all the street vendors and the little tea shops. </span><span style="color: #1a1a1a; text-indent: -1cm;">However,
smells that bring back the strongest sense of place are usually related to our
time spent fishing. Just the other day my daughter ordered green tea at a
restaurant in St. Louis and both she and her brother immediately said, “wow,
that smells like the inside of our fishing gloves when we hang them up to dry
on the boat.” Sadly, I think it tasted like that as well.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1a1a1a; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><b>WSD:</b> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #3e003f; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">What
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1a1a1a; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><b>B-S H:</b> Alaska is just so big and has
such a small population that our childhoods were formed by the environment
almost as much as by the people we knew. As kids we would ride our bikes until
3am during the summer because it was light all night long. My own kids were
running skiffs (small boats) in tiny bays at the age of 5 or 6. We spent a lot
of time camping and rafting rivers with our huge extended family.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1a1a1a; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">But mainly we just live more connected
to the land. Everything revolves around when the salmon spawn or the first big
freeze up in winter. I just like the way we seem to live from season to season
in a more cohesive way than in other places I’ve lived.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1a1a1a; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><b>WSD:</b> You loved fishing but do you love
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1a1a1a; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><b>B-S H:</b> I am such a salmon fanatic that I
eat it at least every other day. My favorite recipe is VERY simple because King
Salmon is so full of flavor, you really don’t have to do much to it. Basically
salted and grilled with lemon and onion and maybe a little dill is all you need
to do. The biggest thing is not to over cook it or it will be dry. There are so
many omega 3 oils that it’s like eating a stick of butter and who doesn’t love
butter? (my mouth is watering just typing this)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #3e003f; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><b>WSD:</b> If you could invite anyone, who
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1a1a1a; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><b>B-S H:</b> I think fishing is definitely not
for everyone so it’s really important to be with people who can handle a small
space and don’t freak out about being seasick. I can only imagine being out
there on the ocean with my kids because we are all acclimated to each other and
are very familiar with the pace of the fishing life. I’ve tried to find a good
answer to your question but when I asked my kids they said it’s cruel to make
people work that hard and be covered with fish blood and have to smell bad for
weeks on end. Perhaps they are trying to tell me something? So I guess I’ll say
I would take anyone who promised beforehand not to be mad at me if they felt
really awful the whole time. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1a1a1a; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><i>Thanks so much, Bonnie-Sue, and you all can read more about her here: <a href="https://hitchcockbs.com/">https://hitchcockbs.com</a>. There are some really interesting and charming bits on her blog, including flowers, whisky bottles and nieces with cool hair.</i></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1a1a1a; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><i>Our review of </i>The Smell of Other People's Houses<i> <a href="http://wesatdown.blogspot.co.uk/2016/12/the-smell-of-other-peoples-houses.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</i></span><br />
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Can you picture flowers in a whisky bottle? I can; Bonnie-Sue
Hitchcock did and this conjuring permeates the pages of this novel beautifully. It's her debut and my goodness....</div>
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<a name='more'></a>From the visceral first pages, I was already in a different
time and place, and the novel kept me right there with Ruth, Dora, Dumpling and Alyce in rural 1970s fishing and
hunting Alaska. The time and setting were refreshingly different to read about.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>The Smell of Other People’s Houses</i> has a charm and poignancy that
avoids a sickly nostalgia by moving swiftly (and sometimes matter-of-factly)
through a very busily interweaved plot: Catholicism, teen pregnancies, broken
families, perfect families, poverty, small town social stratifications, territorial
and indigenous politics, and naked boys in convent gardens. It’s all there, and
told from a number of diverse teen characters' perspectives.<o:p></o:p></div>
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There is a lot of plot in this novel, but it also lingers in
wonderfully and often comically observed social scenes. <i>The Smell of Other
People’s Houses</i> captures a wonderful and loving sense of a changing time and
place and the characters who live in these pages are a delight.</div>
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I adored it.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The Smell of Other People’s Houses <i>has been nominated for
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<i><b>Publication details:</b> 2016, Faber & Faber, London,
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Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05628601066057750860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7735223299018836451.post-42606375508368495902016-11-26T09:47:00.002+00:002016-12-08T13:35:42.927+00:00Australian fiction highlightDust, steam, grit and wonder. I am very much a fan of the Australian children's and YA fiction that is published in the UK. Of the novels we've reviewed on We Sat Down, all of them immediately transport you to to a different place. You can feel the dust, or the steamy rain. You can feel the grit and you can feel the magical and lyrical wonder. The Australian fiction that I love is a whole sensory experience. Here's a recap of the ones We Sat Down has featured:<br />
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<span style="text-align: center;"><b><i><a href="http://wesatdown.blogspot.co.uk/2016/11/the-stars-at-oktober-bend-glenda-millard.html" target="_blank">The Stars at Oktober Bend</a></i></b> by <a href="http://wesatdown.blogspot.co.uk/2016/11/we-sat-down-for-chatwith-glenda-millard.html" target="_blank">Glenda Millard</a>: Lyrical and distinct voices, poetry, and injured subjects. A little gem.</span><br />
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<b><i><a href="http://wesatdown.blogspot.co.uk/2016/11/the-bone-sparrow-zana-fraillon.html" target="_blank">The Bone Sparrow</a></i></b> by Zana Fraillon: Two more marvellous narrators, one in a refugee detention centre and one recovering from her mother's death. An exceptional story.<br />
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<br />Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05628601066057750860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7735223299018836451.post-41967414844713069272016-11-26T08:31:00.000+00:002016-12-08T13:36:01.337+00:00We sat down for a chat......with Glenda Millard<div class="FreeForm">
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curiosity being high on the list. But writing a story is also a journey.
Planning isn’t one of my strengths, so taking the initial step, writing the
first sentence, not knowing how I’m going to get from there to the end, who
I’ll meet along the way, how I’ll discover what’s shaped them and the joys and
sorrows we’ll face together before we arrive at journey’s end are to a large
extent unformed. So in that sense, I did go down a road I’d never been before
and it did lead me to <i>Oktober Bend</i>. But then again, <i>Oktober Bend</i> has always
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rooms, in magazine racks at hairdressing salons. Places where people stop and
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illustrator of children’s books whose name is Tricia Oktober. I love Tricia’s
paintings, I love that she loves animals and gardens and I loved the look of
her surname; the ups-and-downs of it - the surprising spiky bits, the beaky
obliques and the smooth round humps and hillocks. Yes.....there is much to appreciate
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As far as refugee novels go, <i>The Bone Sparrow</i> presents an
unusual perspective as it harnesses both the charming naivete of a young
narrator as well as the world of dystopian novels: what if you were born inside
a refugee detention centre and this was your bubble? And what if everybody else
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As far as general novels go, with <i>The Bone Sparrow</i>, Zana
Fraillon’s prose offers up the earthy grit that is so characteristic of
Australian novels but she also layers it with a gentle mist. Subhi, a growing
and curious boy, has a distinctive voice and his night sea treasures introduce
elements of what might be described as magical realism. Combining this, the
plot and the symbolism of <i>The Bone Sparrow</i> (a necklace, and a story, and a
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Narrative and plot wise, <i>The Bone Sparrow</i> is inherently
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living on the outskirts of the town housing Subhi’s detention centre. Her
mother has recently died and her family is struggling to come to terms with
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refugees and it makes no apologies for exploring the dehumanising conditions imprisoning
them, the good (and the bad) that is in so many people, and our agency as
individual human beings. As dark as the subject matter of the novel, <i>The Bone
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<a name='more'></a><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><i><b>WSD:</b> Your book group is called The Papercuts! Is there
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><b>Kathryn Evans:</b> There is – but it came a long time
before the idea for <i>More of Me</i> – my book group was begun by a friend from
my son’s primary school probably eight years ago? A long time anyway – and
at our first meeting (I think the book was <i>A Gathering Light </i>which I loved) her
youngest daughter got out of bed to show us a papercut on her finger. We
were trying to think of a group name at the time and it seemed auspicious so we
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<b>KE:</b> That’s such a good question – it really is a
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done since I was tiny. My writing is a product of all I’ve read - I love how
writers like Orwell and Huxley and Atwood use sci-fi concepts to make social
commentary. Equally, I adore character led books from Hardy and Dickens to
books with wonderful characters like Bridget Jones and Georgia Nicholson. As a
person… Well, I have a peculiar mix of hobbies. I belly dance and fence and
I’m a citizen scientist on Zooniverse! Science fascinates me – the
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">I think, in YA, you have the freedom to bring any
elements together to create really unusual stories that address some quite
tricky issues – <i>More of Me</i> is a giant metaphor for growing up, how painful it
is, how difficult to balance all the things that are expected of you. My new
book looks at family in a similar way. I think I am the writer and the person I
am <i>because</i> of the reader that I am.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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little girl that Six is, the fireball that is Fifteen…I’d like to say I’d
choose to be Teva at the end of the book but in truth, I think I’d choose to be
Fifteen. She’s so gutsy. Angry yes, but so driven!<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b>KE:</b> I love dogs but for me, a house is not a home
without a cat. Don’t ask me why, barbaric little beasts. It’s something about
their wildness, and the fact they will trust and bond with you despite that
wildness. I don’t know, I can’t explain it - I was heartbroken earlier
this year when someone shot one of my kittens. The picture shows me with Widget, we inherited him from my Ma-in Law – he’s a
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man called Ludo – Peepee goes everywhere Ludo goes and is a soggy rag of love.
He got left at my house once – I had to post him to a campsite in North Wales
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novel is Neville Shute’s <i>A Town Like Alice, </i>and it’s kind of the
nickname Joe Harman gives Jean because she makes herself so at home in
Malaysia. My husband says I could make myself at home anywhere and it’s
probably true. I love travelling but I can’t be trusted in a posh hotel – I’ll
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1a1a1a; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><i>Kathryn Evans
is author of </i><a href="http://wesatdown.blogspot.co.uk/2016/11/more-of-me-kathryn-evans.html" target="_blank">More of Me</a><i>, published by Usborne. Follow Kathryn on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/mrsbung" target="_blank">@MrsBung</a>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1a1a1a; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><i>Here's the link to Kathryn's post '<a href="https://mrsbung.wordpress.com/2016/04/13/to-the-person-who-shot-our-cat/" target="_blank">to the person who shot our cat</a>'. Tissues, people, tissues, at least tissues.</i></span></div>
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