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'The House At The End Of The Sea', Andersen Press
https://www.andersenpress.co.uk/books/the-house-at-the-end-of-the-sea-2/
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He'd rather the books, film, games and music industries died, I guess?
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This is so awesome. Thank you!
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Al, Al and Ali
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MCU can get in the sea, we agree... 😄 I'm a huge fan of French and Belgian BD though. I wonder if we'll ever get a proper Incal adaptation channeling Moebius
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It really frustrated me. I loved the first 5 minutes 😆
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Mind you, I DEFINITELY preferred this adaptation to the rather overblown Valerian
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We've seen it. It was fun, but the original BD is so so good, cynical and hilarious. It's hard to measure up: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ext...
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Good lord. Torture
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Ah, top of the pops. Silly show. By 90s stopped watching.
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Fugees? Fat Boy Slim? Moby? Bjork? Why no love? 😄
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Agreed. Also - and this is a genuine concern of mine - if no young person ever encounters anything even *slightly* antithetical to how they were raised, etc. in a book, how will they survive the real and messy world? It's going to be very difficult once school's out.
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I get over-invested in this question 😅
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On the other hand, give me a housewife (of any gender) as PM: they can keep the food cupboards stocked, balance the books, make afternoon snacks, keep everyone healthy and do the school run, all while making sure little Billy doesn't beat up little Bobby in the playground. Hella skills.
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It's more about snarking to friends and family for sure! 😆
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A lot of truth in that article, as witnessed by someone who hopped from tv / film work to freelance writing, editing, teaching... now what?
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What did you think?
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Yes, I caught up in the end. The voting is a bit nail-biting, but that's part of the fun. I generally don't connect with the music, so I'm there for costumes, drama, nonsense. (Plus, live texting with daughter...)
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dipping in and out
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I think I have a sugar-induced cavity, but it was!
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Absolutely! People confuse knowing what you're doing with *looking* like you know what you're doing. And so the world comes to this pass...
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Too true.
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The tough part is social. You have no friends. 😄
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This was a wonderful read.
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Otherwise, we made use of French correspondence courses for math which I failed miserably.
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My experience was ten years earlier, so not sure how useful it is. We weren't in a country where there was a set curriculum to follow. But I can tell you that doing home schooled English essays for an English teacher was an exercise in adjusting grade expectations! (Getting a 'B' was amazing)
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I increasingly think people with more money than sense pick up sci-fi books that are meant to be warnings and think, 'hey, there's an idea'
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Sounds very Hunger Games
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Whoop! Well done 🥳🎉
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I'm still boggling over that speech. I don't know what to say or be anymore, except to take Nabokov's advice: 'Be an active trader between languages. Carry precious metals from one to the other.' A smashed sort of belonging, a kintsugi state of the soul. Borders are porous, cracks golden.
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A generation of then 10 year olds thanks you... ;)
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So many of us loved these. @ellenkushner.bsky.social
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Yup
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Football hooligans?
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There's so many own goals here, I can't begin to count. We also came to work in the film and tv industry. A huge sector in the UK, currently being absolutely shafted in favour of the AI bubble. The self-sabotage since 2016 boggles my mind. All for what? A few rich tax dodgers? Some fish?
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If RFK likes raw milk so much I recommend moving to France for the Mont d'Or, plus free healthcare when the Mont d'Or disagrees with you
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😉
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Again, on a cultural level, Iranian men are far more demonstrative physically with their male friends. Women are incredibly loving and demonstrative to female friends. This is normal.
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This acceptance extended to our friends in fandom: we were emotionally available and didn't force each other to conform to gender roles. The writer of the article laments a similar loss culturally: Western male friendships are rigidly gender-performing. Why this fear of seeming 'weak', feminine?
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I was chatting about this to daughter re Xena, 90s attitudes, etc. She was astonished to see trans rep in the show. It made me realise that for fantasy or scifi fans (Buffy, Xena, Star Trek etc) it was normal to accept people for who they were, then as now. Were we in a bubble? How do we get back 😄
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… As a bonus novelty book this week, here's THE MIRRORSTONE, a picture book with holograms written by Michael Palin and stunningly illustrated by Alan Lee. Lee is perhaps best known for his illustrations of Tolkien's books and the concept design for Peter Jackson's film adaptations.
#KidLitUK