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Showing posts with label writing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label writing. Show all posts
Saturday, 7 March 2026

A few more words about books versus real life

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S everal reasons for extensive reading have been given on here. For example, what some people get from books seems much better to them than ...
Wednesday, 18 September 2024

Inspiration and creativity in Conan Doyle's Magic Door

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T his is yet another article in the series inspired by Through the Magic Door , Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's little volume of essays about b...
Sunday, 30 June 2024

Get it in writing!

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T his article was inspired by a comment that I came across in one of Dion Fortune's occult novels. T he speaker, a man, decides to send ...
Friday, 19 April 2024

A few more quotations from L. M. Montgomery's Green Gables Letters

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M any elements in the life, letters and works of L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery are of great relevance to this blog; several topics and public...
Thursday, 24 November 2022

A few words about Frances Hodgson Burnett on her birthday

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T he writer Frances Hodgson Burnett was born on this day, November 24th, in 1849.  S he was briefly mentioned in the article that lists some...
Saturday, 1 January 2022

Isaac Asimov, public libraries, and National Science Fiction Day

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T his article for January 2nd is the last in a string of lighter posts for the holiday season. It will soon be time to get back to the depre...
Wednesday, 21 July 2021

The great and positive influence of Everyman's Library

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W hile working on articles about Stella Gibbons's romance My American and the life of the novelist May Sinclair recently, I came across...
Monday, 1 February 2021

Protesting against local library closures in 2016

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T he previously-mentioned thread on a now closed forum about the value or otherwise of public libraries was created in 2016 by someone who h...
Wednesday, 16 December 2020

Stella Gibbons’s My American and writing: Part III

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T here comes a time when Amy Lee changes direction: she stops producing tales of  heroism  and  adventure and joins the school of domestic r...
Monday, 7 December 2020

Stella Gibbons’s My American and writing: Part II

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S tella Gibbons's romance My American contains much writing-related material. The previous article contains extracts that describe the ...
Wednesday, 14 October 2020

More about Stella Gibbons’s young writer Amy Lee

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S tella Gibbons's  My American  is described as a romance. As mentioned in the first article, the main aspect of interest in the book is...
Wednesday, 7 October 2020

Stella Gibbons’s young writer Amy Lee

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T he writer Amy Lee is the main character and main person of interest in Stella Gibbons’s novel My American (1939). T his is not a book th...
Monday, 27 January 2020

Public libraries present

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F or much of my life, I took the existence of public libraries for granted: they were just there. I can now look at them more objectively an...
Monday, 13 January 2020

Stella Gibbons and some libraries

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T erry Pratchett is not the only writer of interest who both feasted on library books and created books for other library users to read. ...
Sunday, 29 December 2019

Public libraries past

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T his is the time of year when people take stock and look both backwards and forwards. This makes it an appropriate occasion to publish arti...
Thursday, 5 December 2019

In praise of public libraries

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T he previous article mentions the great debt owed by writers such as Terry Pratchett to the public libraries that they used as children.  ...
Wednesday, 27 November 2019

The great and positive influence of public libraries

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T his post was inspired by a quotation from Terry Pratchett that I found recently. He said this in his introduction to Dragons at Crumbling ...
Wednesday, 6 November 2019

L. M. Montgomery on Rudyard Kipling and writing to order

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I t came as no great surprise to learn recently that L. M. Montgomery was familiar with the works of Rudyard Kipling: as mentioned in previo...
Friday, 20 September 2019

More about Rudyard Kipling’s Daemon

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T here is a little more Daemon-related material of interest in Rudyard Kipling’s autobiographical work Something of Myself. H is anecdotes...
Sunday, 15 September 2019

Rudyard Kipling and his Daemon

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T his article was inspired by a short anecdote in Rudyard Kipling’s autobiographical work Something of Myself (1937). T his is where he...