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The Ode Less Travelled
We cover poetry in A215 and although that’s not until the New Year, The Ode Less Travelled by Stephen Fry has been recommended by various people on the OU A215 forum. While I was in Cornwall last...
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Prawn
I’m not sure how much rhyming poetry we’ll be doing in A215 but I was browsing amazon for rhyming dictionaries and got some recommendations from others on the course, and decided upon the Oxford...
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Maidstone Book Club: A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby
Because I’m such a Billy-no-mates and don’t have anyone to go to the pub with, I put out a couple of adverts in the hope of recruiting some people to join the book club I wanted to start. After a...
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Morning pages and A Dictionary of Colour
I’m not entirely sure what morning pages are. Are they just whatever comes to mind when you first wake up? I’ve been writing down my dreams, but I decided to write down what I saw out of the window...
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Maidstone Book Club: Notes on a Scandal by Zoe Heller
This month’s book was Notes on a Scandal by Zoe Heller which we all enjoyed. I liked it so much, I borrowed the DVD of the film from the library and not just because the book had only taken a few...
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Freaks! by Caroline Smailes and Nik Perring
She’s a busy girl, that Caroline Smailes. Her novel, 99 Reasons Why, was released last month and now she’s got another book out – this time in collaboration with flash fiction author Nik Perring and...
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Book review on Words With Jam
I subscribe to the Words With Jam newsletter and when the editor asked for book reviewers, I thought, ‘aha, I don’t write many book reviews; if someone makes me do it, then I’ll write more’. So I...
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