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"Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them."

Lemony Snicket Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

Master Nalgah - courtesy & ©Darren Chapman www.nottsbirders.net
“If you are a student you should always get a good night's sleep unless you have come to the good part of your book, and then you should stay up all night and let your schoolwork fall by the wayside...”
― Lemony Snicket

Book Reviews

  • All The Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr
  • The Yellow Birds - Kevin Powers
  • The Confabulist - Steven Galloway
  • Malkin Child - Livi Michael
  • King Crow - Michael Stewart
  • iBoy - Kevin Brooks

“All the secrets of the world are contained in books. Read at your own risk.”

― Lemony Snicket
Wordle: babble16
“A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

"Reading is one form of escape. Running for your life is another."

- Lemony Snicket

Favourite Reads include...

Kevin Powers - The Yellow Birds

Kate Atkinson - Life After Life

Jon McGregor - if nobody speaks of remarkable things

Hubert Mingarelli - A Meal in Winter

Robert Macfarlane - The Old Ways

Iain Banks - The Wasp Factory

Daniel Woodrell - Winter's Bone

W. G. Sebald - The Emigrants

Markus Zusack - The Book Thief

Sadie Jones - The Outsider

Rachel Joyce - Perfect

Melissa Harrison - Clay
Melissa Harrison - At Hawthorn Time

Louisa Young - My Dear, I Wanted to Tell You

“A library is like an island in the middle of a vast sea of ignorance, particularly if the library is very tall and the surrounding area has been flooded.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid
Wordle: babble8

babel

: an ancient city in the land of Shinar in which the building of a tower intended to reach heaven was begun and the confusion of the language of the people took place.

babble

- to utter sounds or words imperfectly, indistinctly, incoherently.

- to reveal foolishly or thoughtlessly: to babble a secret.

what I'm listening to while I'm writing...

Helios - Eingya

Max Richter - Memoryhouse

Brian McBride - The Effective Disconnect

Eluvium - Copia

The Library Tapes

my daughter playing Einaudi's Nightbook

Jóhann Jóhannsson - and in the endless pause there came the sound of bees

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Apparently...!

I write like
Neil Gaiman

I Write Like by Mémoires, journal software. Analyze your writing!

ha ha, great fun this! - and no, I wouldn't have shared the result if it said Jeffrey Archer. It also says I write like Margaret Atwood, Ernest Hemingway, Ursula Le Guin, Mark Twain, Shakespeare, and Douglas Adams. Must be one really weird read.

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Libraries and other wonderful places

  • the reader organisation
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  • the library of lost books
  • get it loud in libraries
  • time to read
  • love libraries
  • lancashire libraries
  • campaign for the book
  • national libraries day
  • save our libraries
  • voices for the library
  • friends of old town library

Writing Resources I like...

  • BBC Writers Room (oop North)
  • Book Oxygen
  • Commonword
  • Creative Lancashire
  • Get it Loud in Libraries
  • Gumbo Press
  • How Publishing Really Works
  • Inc Writers
  • Lancashire Writing Hub
  • LIBRARIES !
  • Library Mice
  • Literature Network
  • Literature NorthWest
  • Litfest Lancashire
  • Manchester lit list
  • Manchester Literature Festival
  • NALD - National Association for Literature Development
  • NAWE - National Association of Writers in Education
  • Save Our Libraries - National Public Library Service Inquiry
  • SCBWI - Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators UK
  • ScribbleLeaf
  • Society of Authors
  • Society of Authors - Reading for Pleasure Campaign
  • The Word Festival
  • The Writers' Workshop
  • The Writers' Workshop blog
  • Write Words
  • Writers' & Artists' Yearbook - A&C Black
  • Writers' & Artists' Yearbook - Childrens' writers & artists

more literary links with interesting stuff to say about writing and books

  • A Dead Good Blog
  • Alan Gibbons - & what's happening with Saving Our Libraries
  • Bookwitch
  • Joe Craig
  • Marcus Sedgwick
  • Mary Hoffman
  • Melvin Burgess
  • Michelle Paver
  • Notes from the Slushpile
  • Overflowing Library
  • Reading for Pleasure Campaign - Society Of Authors
  • sound advice from Lemony Snicket
  • Tall Tales & Short Stories - news, interviews & reviews from children's & YA fiction
  • The Scribbler Blog
  • Time to Read - NW Libraries
  • various writers on writing - bbc
  • various writing for children tips - the wordpool
  • vulpes libris
  • Zadie Smith in defence of our Libraries

more links - some of the writers and artists I admire, local bloggers and other bits and bobs

  • adrian wilson
  • blog preston
  • carys bray
  • chocolat's book box
  • chris skoyles
  • elizabeth burns
  • Emma's Wolf - art by Colette Bain
  • jenn ashworth
  • jon mcgregor
  • kevin brooks
  • livi michael
  • mark mace smith
  • michael stewart
  • mollie baxter
  • norman hadley
  • preston is my paris
  • river's bend
  • river's edge
  • rob talbot
  • sarah hymas
  • terry quinn
  • the yet to be published book club
  • zoe lambert
verbage /ver'b*j/ A deliberate misspelling and mispronunciation of verbiage that assimilates it to the word "garbage". More pejorative than "verbiage".
J A Brunning and Ribble Babel are not responsible for other sites which link here. Close-up of Carrion Crow courtesy &
copyright Darren Chapman www.nottsbirders.net.

Banner montage and all other crow pictures copyright J. A. Brunning 2011.
'If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel’s heartbeat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.'

George Eliot, Middlemarch (1872)



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