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Raymond’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Raymond’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Raymond St. Elmo
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Much Ado, About a Shoe
Goth the Wanderer: Being the True and Accurate history of Goth Kurgus, daughter of a humble miller and an exiled princess of St. Martia, narrating her daring quest for a lost shoe.Goth the Wanderer
This is short, and meant to be fun. A bossy girl on a bold quest, meeting strange people in unlikely places.
I decided it was time to attempt something 'Alice' like.
That is much harder than it looks. Read more of this blog post »
This is short, and meant to be fun. A bossy girl on a bold quest, meeting strange people in unlikely places.
I decided it was time to attempt something 'Alice' like.
That is much harder than it looks. Read more of this blog post »
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is on page 254 of 416 of Liberty: The unfree man is like someone who is drugged or hypnotised: whatever explanations he may advance himself for his behaviour, it remains unaltered by any change in his ostensible, overt motives and policies; we consider him to be in the grip of forces over which he has no control, not free, when it is plain that his behaviour will be predictably the same whatever reasons he advances for it.
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Dragonslayer's Valkyrie: The Legend of Sigurd and Brynhildr:
"Some love stories are written in ink. This one is written in dragonfire.
Reading Dragonslayer's Valkyrie felt like standing on a clifftop in a salt wind, watching two souls recognize each other across a crowded feast hall. Jennifer Ivy Walker does not" Read more of this review » |
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When Charles walks into the Review Saloon, - we cowboy authors pull our hats low, pay our tabs and edge towards the swinging doors. His four-star revi
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An entertaining story, full of believable but interesting characters and interactions. And... it has something else. Call it soul; or meaning, or mora
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“We look into the eyes of a dog and know ourselves in the presence of a being that forgives all debts. Surely it is some natural relation twixt our species? We can’t all have been saved by our dogs. Unless that look in their eyes is itself a kind of salvation.”
― The Scaled Tartan
― The Scaled Tartan
“What had I believed at ten? Anything I wanted. Any tale to make the day more fun, the night more alarming. In giant pigs rooting beneath the streets. In the corpse-eaters who pulled black carts by night, hunting children out past curfew.”
― The Harlequin Tartan
― The Harlequin Tartan
“In the modern world it is not bricks and roads, cannon and swords that define power. No; it is paper. Books of law, deeds of ownership, writs of forbiddance and permission. Titles of lordship, directives of the king's sub-Ministry for Associated Trade. Memoranda from that last desk alone could sink and shake kingdoms, decide the fates of thousands across the sea. Ink runs thicker than blood. Paper: more powerful than an army or the pox.”
― The Harlequin Tartan
― The Harlequin Tartan
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“What had I believed at ten? Anything I wanted. Any tale to make the day more fun, the night more alarming. In giant pigs rooting beneath the streets. In the corpse-eaters who pulled black carts by night, hunting children out past curfew.”
― The Harlequin Tartan
― The Harlequin Tartan
“The street-crowd below held no one of interest. They bored me. They bored God. Surely they bored themselves. The beggars were dull, the passerby grey, the lounging riffraff leaned bereft of lazy charm. If any possessed magic, they kept it hidden. If they thirsted for miracles, they settled for drinking brown fog flavored with smoke, with a chaser of dust and horse-shit. Every tenth breath spitting it to the cobbles with a wet "splat".”
― The Harlequin Tartan
― The Harlequin Tartan
“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more. Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone.”
― The Haunting of Hill House
― The Haunting of Hill House
“The story so far:
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
― The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
― The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
“WRITE YOUR NAME.
The first thing they teach you at school.
WRITE YOUR NAME.
Sign for your first bank account.
WRITE YOUR NAME.
At the top of your exam paper.
WRITE YOUR NAME.
On the back of your bedroom door with a drippy pen.
WRITE YOUR NAME.
To log in to facebook.
WRITE YOUR NAME.
WRITE YOUR NAME.
WRITE YOUR NAME.
As if you existed.
As if you were unique.
As if you were separate.
IN YOUR NAME.
The things you own are in your name.
YOUR NAME.
That which owns, that part of you which may possess things.
And that part of you that possesses your crimes and your crimes against possession.
Write your name on the police report.
Write your name on the caution.
Your name was written on you.
Write your name.”
― Banksy You Are An Acceptable Level of Threat
The first thing they teach you at school.
WRITE YOUR NAME.
Sign for your first bank account.
WRITE YOUR NAME.
At the top of your exam paper.
WRITE YOUR NAME.
On the back of your bedroom door with a drippy pen.
WRITE YOUR NAME.
To log in to facebook.
WRITE YOUR NAME.
WRITE YOUR NAME.
WRITE YOUR NAME.
As if you existed.
As if you were unique.
As if you were separate.
IN YOUR NAME.
The things you own are in your name.
YOUR NAME.
That which owns, that part of you which may possess things.
And that part of you that possesses your crimes and your crimes against possession.
Write your name on the police report.
Write your name on the caution.
Your name was written on you.
Write your name.”
― Banksy You Are An Acceptable Level of Threat
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Posted my essay about Gormenghast and its author, Merwyn Peake. He was a talented playwright, poet, artist and novelist. But wow, did life keep putting him in awful places.Give me beer, bread and boredom all my days.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comm...
Put 'Footprints' for free on Amazon this weekend and today.Bang; it's jumped to rank #4 for its weird little niche.
I have a best seller! Except free, which means 'selling" in the sense of giving it away.
Business puzzles me.
https://www.amazon.com/Origin-Birds-F...
Wrote an essay about Tanith Lee. Quietest writer's life I've ever encountered.
I keep wondering if we miss something about her.
If you write vast feasts of adventures and poetry, are you allowed to live quiet and happy?
https://www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comm...
I have never come to hate a book-movie advertisement as 'Forever my Girl'. This has become like to some torment in Clockwork Orange, wherein the patient is taught to flinch or scream each time the stimulus is presented.The idiot super-star rocker returning to his small town and girl-he-left, who's become even better looking tho she has a child with an IQ of 200, precocious little beast.... THIS IS A PLOT WRITTEN BY MACHINE ALGORYTHMS FED A BUCKET OF SUGAR AND DAYDREAMS.
It is all over the internet. It. Won't. Leave. Me. Alone!
My new series has vampires in kilts, pirate mimes.Serious stuff.
For book #2, The Moon Tartan:
There is a castle.
It has a floor the hero is told 'better not go there'.
'Course he does.
Interesting but harmless, till he gets to HER room.
Who is this pale child who lives alone?
That's the question.
Although, can she GET OUT is a good question too.
Hi Akje!
