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Which I started yesterday... so really a coincidence I'm not TheCrystallineEntity but The Tough Guide to Fantasyland was the first book I read from Wynne Jones and I absolutely love it. That one and Good Omens are my to-go books when I need a mood pick up.

Mine is an picture that my nephew made of himself in some avatar website. He showed it to me and asked me if I like it. I was at that moment reading something in the forum, and that started a long conversation about what a forum is and what we do here. My nephew had just started to learn how...

After a long week end without interruptions (nieces and nephews went to camp on the coast), I managed to finished Margaret Atwood's "The Handmaid's tale," which I found even more chilling than when I read it the first time as a teen, and also Diana Wynne Jones' "Howl's Moving Castle," which is...

So I just finished the Book of Amber; the compendium of the ten novels by Roger Selazny referred as the Chronicles of Amber. I read them all before -long ago- and I have to say that I liked them much more at that time. Nonetheless, Zelazny's take on the multiverse is superb and he's a master of...

I don't see why to suspect that Mr. Clinton will not write at all. People with less writing experience and things to say had gone to write great books, so I imagine that a former US President would be more than capable to contribute as much with ideas as with a few pages. Are you asking...

I think is going to be a hoot, with some serious political game...

The best you can do is write the scene of the meeting. `Write it down, see how it feels, have them talk and discover each other. If, later on, you discover this was not the right time for these characters to meet, you write a new scene. The good thing about writing is that nothing is permanent...

There's not mystic to my name, really. I studied oceanography in college, and the last year you have to choose an area to specialize; I chose Coastal Geology. That year, for some strange coincidence, everyone else was into biology and chemistry, and I became the sole student of the whole geology...

This week was dedicated to reading about writing (Thanks Chessie for the inspiration to choose my weekly reading). Steering the Craft by Ursula K. LeGuin. I read the first version a few years back. The revised version is as good and useful as the first, but manages to take on subjects not...

It's a fantasy thriller, so to say. One of my favorite books from Neil Gaiman, different to what he usually does. It's dark in parts and very clever, with well paced prose, and full of little stories in between the main story. I know it's difficult for the movie to make it justice, but the cast...

It's almost here and I can't wait, American Gods hits the screens in April. I hope they bring it to the city soon enough, even if I don't see hordes of Belgian people rushing -or even wanting- to see it, but I loved the book and since I saw the casting I become convinced it has to be good.

This book was the first one I read that actually help me make sense of plot structure as an important tool to ultimate shape a book instead of just a series of steeps that must occur.

One more week, one more book. An author I really like, Neil Gaiman, in a book I liked a lot but that it was not what I expected: The Ocean at the End of the Lane. Highly enjoyable and an example of taking risk with voice and style.

I think that as long as it doesn't trample the dialogue (because it's weird, comical or misplaced) and it's not redundant (as in some of the well chosen examples above) any tag can be effectively used. Of course, I don't mean that they have to be used, says-said goes a long way, but they can be use.

Following my "one book per week" challenge for 2017, I just finished The Golden Mean, by Annabel Lyon. Historical fiction about the private lives of Alexander the Great and Aristotle, and their relationship as tutor and student. I have to say Annabel does a superb job bringing ancient Macedonia...