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    Universal healthcare-a good thing?

    Here in France our health care is supposed to be the best in the world. I have nothing but praise for the treatment, it's prompt - when I had a breast cancer scare the doctor apologised for me having to wait until the next day for a scan - and the quality of care is excellent. However the cost...
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    Diana Wynne Jones

    Deep Secret is probably my favourite of DWJ's books, Rupert is so winderfully stuffy and the science fiction convention is hilarious.
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    Bad influence of Harry Potter

    So JKR claimed that 30% of her work is based on 'real occult experience'? Really? Where, when? Facts please, not the ramblings of someone who has an agenda about the evils of witchcraft to spout about and is probably no more immune to the temptation to slant, or even make up, facts than any...
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    Parallel Reading

    If I've borrowed a book I always read two at a time because I read in the bath and I won't risk getting water on someone else's book.
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    How Many Books Do You Read in a Year (approx.)?

    Somewhere between 1-200. I read fast and reread a lot - reread books are always faster - so the weekly total depends on how many re-reads.
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    Will Robert Jordan Die before he finished wheel of time series?

    I wish no harm to the man but frankly I gave up caring whether he ever finished the series around book 5, though I did make it half way through the next before i decided that life really is too short to wade through all this detail.
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    Jane Austen

    Persuasion - well it's my favourite after P & P. Anne Elliot is a wonderful heroine, quite different from Lizzy Bennet, but sympathetic and very modern in many ways. I find Fanny Price in Mansfield Park too meek and irritating, Emma I've never particularly enjoyed and Northanger Abbey reads...
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    Sarkozy or Royal? The French election

    To those of us who live here, yes it does. Sarko is going to win, sadly, because he's so business centric that he'll probably end up by sounding the death knell to all the small enterprises which keep the villages alive by removing the protections that allow them to exist. For instance large...
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    Unicorns, Pegasus', Horses

    For what age?
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    Publish or Self-publish?

    Matthius, ask yourself why any publisher would want to pay to publish a book that can already be downloaded off the internet? Your average editor is going to be far more impressed by a clean literate manuscript which is gramatically correct and has been carefully checked over than a self...
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    Publish or Self-publish?

    Just one, in fact - it's one of the great urban myths along with her being rejected by loads of agents. She was picked up by the second she tried there too. What is true is that Bloomsbury picked Harry Potter up for an advance of £2000 which seems like peanuts but was around the going rate for...
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    Can anyone help me name this book

    The Princess and Curdie?
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    North Carolina during the revolution

    I'm researching the early revolutionary years in North Carolina for a novel and would appreciate some suggrstions. I'm particularly looking for stuff about personal lives, how people lived etc, the food they ate, houses they lived in. I've already got a couple of reasonable histories of the...
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    Disagree with ending?

    War and Peace Can you really believe that someone like Natasha wou develop into the sort of woman who obsesses about her baby's nappies?
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    In a reading rut?

    Tired of reading? Never Don't want to read anything in my TBR bookcase? Often. Then I go back to old favourites.
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    First-person writing vs. third-person

    Distancing yourself from your narrator, whether you're writing in the first or third person, is something that comes with practice - in fact if you are serious about your writing you should try writing first person narrative and stretch your writing muscles so to speak. Sometimes the...
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    What Book Changed Your Political Thinking?

    I think for lots of us it's probably more of a case of no one particular book changing political thinking -for instance I read Memoires of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir when I was 16, I can't say that it converted me to feminism but it did lead me to go onto to read other feminist tracts.
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    January Reads

    The Thirteenth Tale - Diane Sittenfield One Shot - Lee Child Crazy for You - Jennifer crusie The Sheltering Sky - Paul Bowles Love and other Pursuits - Aylet Walderman A Few Bloody Noses - Robert Harvey Horrible Histories USA A Cold day In paradise - Steve Hamilton
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    Who Are The Writers?

    Will you forgive me if I say that to me this sounds like you are deceiving yourself and looking for excuses? (I know, been there, done that.) I have no idea how long your publishing house took to edit, proof and get your book on the market but unless you're writing a massive blockbuster it...
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    Who Are The Writers?

    Running out of steam Unless you're writing a 150 page book I'm afraid it sounds as if you have a problem here. You should be able to whip through the last part of a book as the adrenaline gets going and you race to the finish, I'm not that fast a writer but I average 1500 - 2500 words a day...
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