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Waiting and hoping and praying
Waiting and hoping and praying is all anyone can do until air tests show it is safe to begin rescuing the 29 miners trapped in the Pike River mine. What will it be like for the rescuers once they get… more →
Homepaddock
Retro review--The Warlord of the Air, the proto-steampunk classic
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wrote 4 months ago: Review by C.J. Bunce It’s been 41 years since Michael Moorcock first published The Warlord of … more →
On unreliable narrators
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wrote 6 months ago: The Story of the Treasure Seekers by E Nesbit tells the story of six siblings whose father has falle … more →
The Shadow From The Sky.
wrote 6 months ago: “I crawled back through the gap and as I did so a shadow began to spread across the rubble bef … more →
The Wouldbegoods – E. Nesbit
wrote 1 year ago: Continuing the series about the Bastable children is The Wouldbegoods, in which the children discove … more →
The Story of the Treasure-Seekers – E. Nesbit / Karen Savage
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wrote 1 year ago: E. Nesbit did not write for children. Oh, yes, I quite enjoyed Five Children and It and The Phoenix … more →
Waiting and hoping and praying
wrote 2 years ago: Waiting and hoping and praying is all anyone can do until air tests show it is safe to begin rescuin … more →
Did you see the one about
wrote 2 years ago: Same planet, different world Oswald Bastable on bookless homes. Mapping internet sensation stereotpy … more →
Did you see the one about . . .
wrote 2 years ago: New Zealand and Uruguay as sporting equivalents - Pablo at Kiwipolitico compares one small country w … more →
Let's get better Best Blog Awards
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wrote 3 years ago: Whale Oil, Cactus Kate and Oswald Bastable aren’t impressed with the nominations in the blog … more →
Mistress of Mistressology mis-steps
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wrote 3 years ago: I’ve never had the pleasure of meeting Busted Blonde at Roarprawn but her blog posts, and some … more →
Against the natural order
wrote 3 years ago: The death of an elderly person, while sad, is part of the natural order of life. We’re born, w … more →
Just a little click
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wrote 3 years ago: Osward Bastable has written a book which has been published on-line. He’s asking people to cli … more →
NZ Book Month
wrote 3 years ago: Today is the last day of NZ Book Month and the post a day challenge. It’s been fun and the cha … more →
Learning to Lie Together
wrote 3 years ago: Learning to Lie together is a collection of poems by Diane Brown. It starts with a possum falling o … more →
One of the Family
wrote 3 years ago: One of the Family was the first of Mary Scott’s books I read and it hooked me. I read every o … more →
Timeless Land
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wrote 3 years ago: Brian Turner’s poetry, Owen Marshall’s prose and Grahame Sydney’s paintings combin … more →
Overkill
wrote 3 years ago: Who said New Zealander’s can’t do who-dunnits? Ngaio Marsh did, Mary Scott and Joyce Wes … more →
Good Men is a good project - Updated
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wrote 3 years ago: Several publishers thought a story about wizards wouldn’t sell. J.K. Rowling proved them wrong … more →
Shame
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wrote 3 years ago: Former MP and Minister outside cabinet Phillip Field has been found guilty of 26 charges. Field, fo … more →
