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James’s 2024 Year in Books
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James Field
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The Bell Tower Suite
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2014
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Gathering Clouds...
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2012
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Son of Peace: A Modern Historical Novel of Buddha
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Life in the Clouds: Strange Chronicles from a Stalled Century
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White Noise
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2013
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Gypsy Spell
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2013
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Psycho Psyche (The Cloud Brothers Short Stories #7)
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2015
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Yoikes (The Cloud Brothers Short Stories #8)
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2015
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Fast Down
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Doomsday Diary (The Cloud Brothers Short Stories #9)
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Time and Distance in a Narrative: Keeping Your Story Moving Without Losing the Reader
Hello again, fellow fiction writers.
Have you ever read a novel where a character leaves the house, and in the next paragraph they’re mysteriously halfway across Europe—with no clue how they got there? Or one where three pages cover a single cup of tea, and then six months flash by in a line break?
That’s what happens when time and distance in a narrative get muddled. Readers lose their sense of whe Read more of this blog post »
Have you ever read a novel where a character leaves the house, and in the next paragraph they’re mysteriously halfway across Europe—with no clue how they got there? Or one where three pages cover a single cup of tea, and then six months flash by in a line break?
That’s what happens when time and distance in a narrative get muddled. Readers lose their sense of whe Read more of this blog post »
James Field
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read in October 2025
James Field said:
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Poe’s tales, without the tangle.
Buried alive. Driven mad. Haunted by guilt, grief, and things best left in the dark…
In Dead Easy, the classic horror tales of Edgar Allan Poe are retold in modern, clear English—sharp, spooky, and accessible for today’
James Field
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read in May 2025
James Field said:
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Updated by James, the authur, for the 2025 editionSome stories linger long after they’re written. The Bell Tower Suite is one of those for me.
This revised edition goes deeper into the shadows—both within the characters and the crumbling walls of the ...more "
James’s Recent Updates
"A co-dependent asshole of a woman has lots of sex with men that are also complete assholes, and one of them happens to be a mer-man.
Very smutty, very graphic sex scenes. A lot of them nausea inducing. Lucy, the main character, was completely unhinged" Read more of this review » |
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Wow, sounds good. Definitely one for me. Thanks for bringing it to my notice, Stacy.
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"I found After Oz very like Return to Oz (the film) with the story finding Dorothy in an asylum for the insane as she regales her story of Oz, the Emerald city and the friends she made there.
Meanwhile, neighbour Alvina Clough has been murdered and the" Read more of this review » |
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"Strange Eden is a sweeping story that takes place in Nassau, Bahamas. It's set in 1791 when colonialism was in full flow, and slavery was still deemed as normal.
Rich in description and prose, Giordano blends history with fiction and brings the story " Read more of this review » |
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Thank you, Fiza — much appreciated. A lovely review.
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Advanced English Vocabulary: Speaking Across Registers: Formal, Neutral, and Informal English Vol. 1
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Thank you, Fiza — that’s such a thoughtful and generous review. I really appreciate the care and insight you put into it, especially from a teacher’s
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Thanks, Baba. 😊
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Thank you for writing it. 😊 James
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| Birds in the Nest is a sweeping, old-fashioned family story — warm, heavy, and full of history. Knowing it’s based on the author’s own grandmother gives the whole book an extra layer of tenderness. Minnie’s journey from disease-stricken Ireland to th ...more | |
Topics Mentioning This Author
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| Making Connections: 266. GATHERING CLOUDS by James Field | 13 | 31 | May 31, 2012 05:31AM | |
| Making Connections: 3242. - CLOUDS OVER PLANET X by James Field | 1 | 10 | Jun 09, 2014 07:06PM |
“She held herself very straight, like Audrey Hepburn, whom all women idolize and men never think about.”
― The Virgin Suicides
― The Virgin Suicides
“For all their simplicity, humans could be remarkably perceptive, though they didn't know it most of the time, and their ability to thrust straight through deception and see to the heart of truth was often lost with childhood. By adulthood humans had trained themselves to be coy and manipulative in response to the coy and manipulative society in which they lived, which led them to believe that everyone was trying to be as coy and manipulative as themselves and were uncertain about what was true and what was not. Beyond their few flashes of clarity, everything became a muddle of colliding doubts.”
― The Speaker for the Trees
― The Speaker for the Trees
“So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookshelf on the wall.”
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“The story-tellers and spinners of erotic tales are hardly more than butchers who hang up meat attractive to flies.”
― Memoirs of Hadrian
― Memoirs of Hadrian
“Traumatic events can be compared to facing a demon pitcher on the baseball diamond. Life tells us we have to take a swing at the ball, but engaging this demon comes with consequences. If you make first base, you’ll feel the need to sleep. Not so bad. Second, you’ll want to forget it all happened. Don’t we all? But third base brings the onset of madness and if you step off the plate there’s only death. In the great game of life, sometimes it’s better to strike out than hit a home run. After all, you can relax in the Dugout with friends until you’re ready to knock the demon out of the park.”
Alexander Rollins, Keystrokes”
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Alexander Rollins, Keystrokes”
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Hi James,Thank you for your Goodreads friend invitation.
Cheers,
Martin
