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Chapter 3 – Jon Jon is dreaming that he is Ghost. As Ghost he knows where the other direwolves of the pack that are still alive are. He can sense Nymeria and ShaggyDog. He knows Summer is still alive but can’t sense him. When Jon wakes up, we see his side of the story about…
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This one raises an interesting question: is it ok to not like a book on this subject? The Auschwitz Violin by Maria Àngels Anglada, trans. Martha Tennent, is the story of a violin maker interned in Auschwitz who is ordered to make a violin for the camp Commander. He does this amid the starvation and…
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Chapter 2 – Daenerys Daenerys’ people are being killed in the streets. Grey Worm brings her the body of an Unsullied killed on the way to a brothel by the Sons of the Harpy. The cities she defeated are turning bad in different ways and the good she has tried to do is all going…
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Chapter 1 – Tyrion Tyrion is on a boat bound for the free cities; he’s drunk and feeling very sorry for himself. When the ship makes port, Tyrion is stuffed inside a wine cask and delivered to Magister Illyrio Mopatis, the man responsible for selling Danaerys to Khal Drogo. Tyrion feels sorry for himself. Illyrio…
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Jeffrey Archer is an easy target. He’s a best-selling author that a lot of people think is a dreadful writer. So, given that I read in order to improve my writing skills, it seems to make sense that I should read some of those novels and authors that are widely considered to be bad. I can see…
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Prologue A warg is hunting in the snow beyond the Wall with two other wolves. They find a small group of people; two men and a woman with a baby. The wolves attack, kill and eat the people. Varamyr Sixskins, one of Mance Rayder’s chiefs, and a big noise in the army of the King…
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Astronomy Picture of the DayAtlantis’ last approach to the International Space Station. A view from the space station of the shuttle with the Bahamas in the background. Pagan stuffA silly little story that amused me – a Christian group opposed a meeting of Pagans and threatened a protest, but while loads of Pagans turned up,…
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I was so looking forward to The Captive Queen by Alison Weir. Although I haven’t read any of her novels before, I have read several of her historical biographies. I think Alison Weir writes non-fiction really well and I especially enjoyed her biography of Eleanor of Aquitaine. That book was one I found particularly influential…
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Writing stuffA poem taking apart V.S. Naipal and his isms via Ms Magazine Politics and social stuffResponding to homophobia in the Daily Mail (shocker, I know), Spark in Darkness is both angry, right, and funny. Oooh prettyAstronomy picture of the day showing a volcano with a perfectly triangular shadow.
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I’ve been on blog hiatus for a little while as I was on holiday in Vienna. Which was lovely. You may also have noticed from the sidebar that I’m running a little behind on the 100 Books in 2011 challenge. This is because I have been re-reading A Song of Ice and Fire before A…
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