suziewilde.bsky.social
Author , reader, book podcaster and opinionated dog owner. https://omny.fm/shows/petersfieldstories/talking-books-november-2024
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Well - my girl has a twin spirit called a skern based on the Norse fylgja … maybe you’re mine 😁
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Thank you! When I wrote my Bera trilogy I tried to use plain or Norse words + our Welsh terms like caffled for tangled hair. It was fun!
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And it changes with each decade I view it
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Unless you were right all along …
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I taught in these. No sex that I can remember. But I’m very old.
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So true. I was writing a gritty thriller but kept seeing snow and fire. Went to Iceland and found Bera, whose story is now a trilogy @unbounders.bsky.social
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The most exciting live update was when Mainoo fell into a bank of snow.
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A lonely sound, carried across serried rooftops of terraced houses from cold grey Fratton station to the cemetery. Portsmouth, 1963.
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Is that the police station? Courthouse? Looks familiar
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Married so long, I would think this is like bickering with your own critical inner voice?
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There must be a copy in Iceland. Not in a cabinet freezer but The Icelandic Phallological Museum
+354 561 6663
Closes 7pm tonight and well worth a visit 😊
g.co/kgs/EaJXARY
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My cousins reread it too - now it’s being passed round our book club. When I get my copy back I’ll probably do the same x
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I know! Mind you, the only Sprite I ever owned had its Big End go …
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Yes ! - Gamache superb. So is Small Bomb at Dimperley ❤️
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Hooray! A new series for us for Christmas 🙏
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Perfection. Also grounded in truth without comedic exaggeration: Richard can only get me to remember events via food: Bay of Biscay ship-killing storm? Jamon Jamon crisps in La Coruna.
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A splendidly knitted dog 😊
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Hope you can make One Tree Books Petersfield. Be lovely after all this time and I’ll interview you for @shineradio.bsky.social
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Well done you! It’s a proper milestone and spells Freedom 🥳
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That’s how I feel. And fond memories of my mother too.
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I think they were performative: in case a teacher/tutor ever inspected the books. Rather touching is the trying out of married names (Reader, I didn’t marry him. Or him, or him.) 😊
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And read hilariously pompous margin notes by a younger self.
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And the best cliffhangers are because you care so much about the characters.
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Ooh, one I don’t know and obviously need to! From henceforth I shall describe myself as a dogsmith too.