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PhotoPrompt #42: Red blur

July 13, 2020 in PhotoPrompt, Photography

This is a formless photo that I think is evocative. Of what? Don’t know: just evocative.

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Quick looks: The Oxford Book of Caribbean Stories

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One of the things I think can add to one’s enjoyment and also improve one’s writing is to read stories from other cultures.

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My reviews published in Teach Secondary magazine in 2024

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This pdf contains the reviews of mine that were published in Teach Secondary magazine in 2024.

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Compare and contrast: Literary Journeys: Mapping Fictional Travels across the World of Literature

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Compare and contrast: Hitler’s People – The Faces of the Third Reich

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Compare and contrast: Review of Dickens: The Funny Bits

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Compare and contrast: Picture Perfect

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As indicated by the title, the first thing to know about this anthology is that it comprises both poetry and prose, rather than one or the other. Many of the pieces are quite unusual...

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Compare and contrast: Nuts and bolts

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It's rather disconcerting when one considers that buildings like The Shard are essentially held together by nuts, bolts and washers.

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Compare and contrast: Love Triangle

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Like, I suspect, many people, I have never knowingly come across an isosceles triangle in my life, and wouldn’t know what to do with it if I did. However...

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Review: Waterhouse on newspaper style

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This book may be thirty years old, but its advice is still pertinent. If you want to have a blitz or crackdown against, or shake-up of, bad writing (all examples of 'tabloidese'), then this is the book for you.

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