• The problem with scheduling in advance…

    02 June 2019

    I usually schedule my blog posts a few days in advance (sometimes even further ahead than that -- oh no! it's the return of the brackets!!), and this one is no different. I'm on my way home from...

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  • June Shanville Monthly

    01 June 2019

    I'm out in Madrid for the Champions League Final, which takes place tonight (come on you Spurs!!). It's an exciting start to the month, but equally exciting (OK, it's not really, but hey, let's...

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  • Madrid beckons

    31 May 2019

    Today I head to Madrid in search of... glory!

     

    Tottenham Hotspur is the football (soccer) team that I've supported all my life. We've never been overly successful -- the last time we won the...

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  • Book Riot

    30 May 2019

    There was an interesting article over on the Book Riot site recently, about what is the longest YA Book Series, based on either the number of books or the page count. It's a trickier one to call...

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  • Ban the Zom-B babies!!

    29 May 2019

    Yesterday's post about a boy who'd enjoyed Zom-B Baby and posted a short review of it on Twitter reminded me of some harsher critics, who succeeded in having the book removed from the shelves of a...

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  • Book Moles

    28 May 2019

    I like the @BookMoles group over on Twitter, where students post pictures of themselves holding a book that they've recently read in front of their faces, along with a very short review of it. A...

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