Blogs about: Tim Wynne Jones
Featured Blog
A Grand Birthday Tour
I have a hard time with my birthday. It is in January, probably the worst month of the year. I am never sure how I should respond to everyone’s well wishes. I am usually pretty grumpy. This year, I re… more →
Stepping off the Treadmill
Five Books I Couldn't Stop Reading
— 2 comments
wrote 3 weeks ago: In honor of summer’s approach, I wanted to do something a little different today. (A new revie … more →
Book Review: Blink and Caution by Tim Wynne-Jones
wrote 2 months ago: I picked up Blink & Caution expecting to read an adventure story by acclaimed Canadian author Ti … more →
David Almond, Eoin Colfer, Roddy Doyle, Deborah Ellis, Nick Hornby, Margo Lanagan, Gregory Maguire, Ruth Ozeki, Linda Sue Park, Tim Wynne-Jones--Click: One Novel Ten Authors (2007)
wrote 3 months ago: SOUNDTRACK: BEACH HOUSE-Teen Dream (2010). I didn’t know Beach House until this album got huge … more →
A Grand Birthday Tour
— 8 comments
wrote 3 months ago: I have a hard time with my birthday. It is in January, probably the worst month of the year. I am ne … more →
Starting the new year in a fort
wrote 1 year ago: New Years Day, January 1, 2012. The beginning of a new year and the end of our family time together. … more →
Rex Zero Author Named to the Order of Canada
wrote 1 year ago: On Friday, December 30, Perth-based author Tim Wynne-Jones was named to the Order of Canada by Gover … more →
The Cinque Terre.
— 2 comments
wrote 1 year ago: The Cinque Terre are 5 tiny villages that perch on the edge of the cliffs along the Ligurian coast. … more →
Portovenere
— 3 comments
wrote 1 year ago: Portovenere is on a promontory that juts into the western edge of the Gulf of La Spezia. A 30-minute … more →
A sunny Christmas morning
wrote 1 year ago: Before coming to Italy, we warned ourselves that the end of December would be wintery and cold. We w … more →
A Christmas Eve feast in Italy
wrote 1 year ago: Our Christmases have always looked a bit like an archetypal Christmas card. We decorate a tree with … more →
Croeso i Caerdydd
— 1 comment
wrote 1 year ago: Cardiff (Caerdydd) is the capital of Wales. A city of approximately 850,000, it is going through qui … more →
Croeso i Tyddewi
wrote 1 year ago: With the name “Wynne-Jones”, you know that Tim’s family is Welsh. His father was born in Wales, and … more →
Steeped in history and tradition
— 4 comments
wrote 1 year ago: It never ceases to surprise me that Britain is both large and small at the same time. It’s like a ma … more →
A Sublime Day in London
— 2 comments
wrote 1 year ago: The Leonardo Da Vinci show at the National Gallery, “Leonardo Da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Mila … more →
Encore Une Fois, part deux
— 2 comments
wrote 1 year ago: After a morning exploring the treasures at the Marche des Puces in Restigne, Bryan, Peta, Tim and I … more →
Encore une fois
wrote 1 year ago: Peta and Bryan invited us back to France, to help close up the house for the winter. The trip coinci … more →
A new doorstep in an ancient landscape
— 7 comments
wrote 1 year ago: We had never met Mal Peet and his wife Elspeth Graham before we landed on their doorstep in Exmouth. … more →
Discovering a corner of Devon
— 2 comments
wrote 1 year ago: There is a reason why everyone raves about Devonshire Cream. When you eat it, you feel like you have … more →
The Timeless Power of Legends
wrote 4 months ago: A Review of The Monkey King & Other Stories Edited by Griffin Ondaatje (Harper Collins, 1995). B … more →
