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Book Review: Writing Young Adult Fiction

Posted on August 12, 2016 by Sarah Hodgetts

  I have a row of ‘how to write’ books on my bookcase. I think it’s important to keep reminding yourself of the principles and basics of writing. Yes, the story may flow out of my fingertips straight from my imagination, but I have found honing it and making it into a polished piece of […]

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Book Review: A Darker Shade of Magic by V E Schwab

Posted on May 25, 2016 by Sarah Hodgetts

I love the cover of this book, the red, white, grey and black are also the colours of the four London’s in the story. Grey ordinary, mostly magicless London, red magical London, white brutal stark London, and black ruined dead London. I think Lila said it well when she said something like boring London, magic […]

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The Curious Tale of the Lady Caraboo by Catherine Johnson

Posted on March 26, 2016 by Sarah Hodgetts

Another book read in one gulp, started yesterday and finished today. I had no idea what this book would be about, as I’d read nothing on it, no reviews or novel blurbs. What surprised me about the book was how deep it felt to me, there is more going on than the surface events of […]

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The Watchmaker of Filigree Street
The Last Runaway
The Girl in the Spider's Web
Dragonflight
Ain't Superstitious
Things Get Better
Super Structure: The Key to Unleashing the Power of Story
Only Disconnect
The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century
Eye of the Needle
The Time It Happened
Pride and Prejudice
52 Dates for Writers - Ride a Tandem, Assume an Alias, and 50 Other Ways to Improve Your Novel Draft
The Way Between the Worlds
The Fault in Our Stars
Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them
Astronomical Odds
Redshifted: Martian Stories
A Shadow on the Glass
Delirium


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