Archive for the 'book' Category

You know what they say?…

Monday, May 15th, 2006

…When the wolves come out of the walls then it’s all over.
If you want to know what’s all over, and who ‘they’ are, then you should find yourself a copy of Neil Gaiman’s “The Wolves in the Walls”. It is obviously a childrens story, but as with all Neil’s work, and the work of […]

Reading groups

Thursday, September 30th, 2004

I’ve never actually made it to any of the meetings of the Leamington Spa reading group, nor have I ever managed to read any of the books that they have discussed, so what makes me think I’ll do better with this online reading group? Well its being run by Susanna Clarke herself. I […]

Aadvarks

Thursday, September 30th, 2004

I got home yesterday to find an air mail envelope from Canada. It was my personalised, signed copy of Cerebus - mothers&daughters 14. There was also this letter from Dave Sim (pdf) which said (after a little OCR and editing):
17 September 04
Dear Neilies and Neilettes:
Thank you for your recent inquiry. With the fourteen […]

Teaching Comics

Wednesday, September 29th, 2004

http://www.teachingcomics.org/
Who would have thought it, an online resource to help facilitate the teaching of comics in higher education. They seem to like calling it “sequential art” which is a term I don’t think I have come across before.

Susanna Clarke

Wednesday, September 22nd, 2004

Its finally in my hands. No, not that, the first novel by Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell. I can’t tell you what its like though, apart from large, black and heavy, as I’m not reading this copy. This is “One of One Thousand four hundred and fifty slipcased, numbered and […]


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