@raine
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Raine posted a new activity comment 7 years, 7 months ago
I can highly recommend Wild Embers by Nikita Gill. Her stuff is beautiful and makes me cry quite a lot! Also got Kumukanda by Kayo Chingonyi which is good too. A lot about coming from Zambia to the UK, which my mum did, so it feels personal in some ways.
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Raine posted a new activity comment 7 years, 7 months ago
Yes, don’t give up @richardb! I’m not sure the talk of fashions is much help being as agents are always guessing on what will be next, and the things in the shops were signed two years before. We were told about 4 years ago that post-apocalytpic was done. But there are still agents asking for it, and still new books appearing in the shops. And I’m…[Read more]
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Raine posted a new activity comment 7 years, 7 months ago
And there’s The Silent Companions out recently and doing really well as a reading group type thing…
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Forgot to say: though I say it as shouldn’t, I find the book less convincing as a ghost story than my own, and the climax is a bit OTT. Well, I’d better carry on with trying to lick my MS into better shape.
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Not actually a Haunted House, but still ghostly, and very creepy, Susan Hill’s Dolly is the most enjoyable book I’ve read this year.
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Yes, don’t give up @richardb! I’m not sure the talk of fashions is much help being as agents are always guessing on what will be next, and the things in the shops were signed two years before. We were told about 4 years ago that post-apocalytpic was done. But there are still agents asking for it, and still new books appearing in the shops. And I’m…[Read more]
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I’m going through agents at the moment listing those with that particular request.
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Raine posted a new activity comment 7 years, 7 months ago
lol! I used to read poetry way more than I do now. Perhaps I should try your trick! Or by the kettle, to read whilst waiting for it to boil?
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Raine posted a new activity comment 7 years, 7 months ago
SWISS COWS! How could I forget! That adds at least 30% to the healthiness.
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Raine posted a new activity comment 7 years, 7 months ago
Ye gods!
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Raine posted a new activity comment 7 years, 7 months ago
Oh my word @squidge! That sounds horrendous! What did they do?
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Raine replied to the topic New Blog from Emma Darwin in the forum Blogs 7 years, 7 months ago
Ugh, toothache is awful @alanr. Hope it eases. I know that guilty feeling for not writing, but sometimes its good to step away for a while too. Or at least that’s what I tell myself when school hols make time to write a rare commodity!
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Raine posted a new activity comment 7 years, 7 months ago
Hi Mezz, lovely to see you here. It’s a slightly different format to the Cloud, but with the same basic areas – Critique forum, blogs, groups, and this main wall. Hope you can find your way around. 🙂
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Raine replied to the topic As an opening… in the forum Critiques 7 years, 7 months ago
Naomi ALderman is great @squidge! Not always a comfortable read, but (haha) very powerful. I loved The Power, and I’ve also just read her newest – The LIars Gospel, which you might enjoy. I think. Some might not like the angle it takes, but I thought it was beautiful in its own way.
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Raine posted a new activity comment 7 years, 7 months ago
From this robust survey, it sounds incontrovertibly like toblerone is indeed healthy. Sandra I will save you a triangle for next time we meet up. Maybe.
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Raine posted an update 7 years, 7 months ago
Am trying to convince myself that toblerone counts as a healthy snack because almonds.
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I had the sane thought this morning about jam, because fruit. Also it was home made and I must have burned off a few calories mashing the fruit and stirring it
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That’s the same reasoning that makes me walk 15 minutes to the chip shop, Daedalus.
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The logic is incontestable
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Raine!! You’ve Toblerone? I think that is a word that should be banned from this site for setting up an atmosphere of deep envy and greed. And nasty thoughts towards those that have when I have not. .
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All calories fall out of food once you break them up. So toblerone only has calories until you snap a piece off, then poof. All gone.
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From this robust survey, it sounds incontrovertibly like toblerone is indeed healthy. Sandra I will save you a triangle for next time we meet up. Maybe.
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Almonds, Raine – healthy of course.
And honey, which is healthy because it is bee-puke, which is about as natural (and therefore healthy) as anything can be.
And there’s chocolate, which is made of milk – naturally, this is healthy because cows are healthy and these are Swiss cows so they eat Swiss grass and the Swiss are very healthy because of…[Read more]-
What Mad said 😀
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SWISS COWS! How could I forget! That adds at least 30% to the healthiness.
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Raine replied to the topic Hello All in the forum Coffee Shop 7 years, 7 months ago
@alanr It’s definitely v tricky to find a balance between not selling yourself enough, and being horribly ott, isn’t it? Factual seems to work best. Actually ‘tidy’ isn’t bad! Means you havent waffled on too long or included unnecessary info which can both be fatal.
Hope the 1:1s gave you some direction for what could be changed, even the…[Read more]
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Raine posted a new activity comment 7 years, 7 months ago
Umm, I hadn’t noticed. YOu can see recent topic activity by selecting topics or replies in the drop down menu at the top of this activity wall? Or did you mean in the right hand column? I know @Admin were thinking of tweaking that column to include a list of blogs, so it might be in the middle of a reshuffle?
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Where has the list of topics gone?
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I’d rather like to know that too.
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Umm, I hadn’t noticed. YOu can see recent topic activity by selecting topics or replies in the drop down menu at the top of this activity wall? Or did you mean in the right hand column? I know @Admin were thinking of tweaking that column to include a list of blogs, so it might be in the middle of a reshuffle?
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Raine posted a new activity comment 7 years, 7 months ago
YAY for dolphins @janeshuff!! They are just the most amazing creatures. (Apart from bats, obv). Have never got over the buzz of seeing them however often I’ve done so.
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Raine replied to the topic New Blog from Emma Darwin in the forum Blogs 7 years, 7 months ago
Go you @janeshuff! I think @skylark, and others have done the 100 day thing and found it helpful. I think I would falter at the weekends – RL being inconsiderate and getting in the way!
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Raine replied to the topic Festival Dreams in the forum Blogs 7 years, 7 months ago
Skylark, I have no doubts you were splendid and inspiring, and I wish I’d been there to see you shine. Everyone who knew you there must have been bursting with vicarious pride. What a wonderful boost too, to have the chance to talk through book two with your ed – can’t wait to see where that one takes us. COngrat my lovely!
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I’m finding it’s not the beautiful but the thought-provoking, recognition of something previously unvoiced that is currently jolting me into appreciation.