23.1.19 oh look, it actually snowed in Darkest Lancashire!...

23.1.19 oh look, it actually snowed in Darkest Lancashire! http://bit.ly/2DtHAm4

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3.9.18 Not exactly barren (near the Daubensee)

3.9.18 Not exactly barren (near the Daubensee)

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speculumannorum: 5.6.18 I’ve been grading the

speculumannorum:

5.6.18 I’ve been grading the history/ culture sections of the medieval exam. ‘Arrange in this order: Henry I, II, III’. ‘Mathilda or Maud? Write on one side of the paper only.’ (1066 And All That)

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Throwbackto: June 2018. Grading does strange things to one’s sense of humour.

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#whatareyoureadingwednesday post is up #ontheblog! I

#whatareyoureadingwednesday post is up #ontheblog! I finished The Good People, and ended up disappointed that Kent did not afford the disabled character (the victim of infanticide) the same respect she awarded to the other main characters. She’s a very skilled historical fiction writer, able to turn broad context into incredibly gritty character specifics, but chose to write the child’s disability as deliberately confused, not anchored to any diagnostic. I read somewhere that she wanted to retain the possibility he *was* a changeling, and that doesn’t sit right with me as far as treatment of the historical victim goes. . #auslit #historicalfiction
February 13, 2019 at 05:20PM