Nicola Griffith

Writer. Queer cripple with a PhD. Seattle & Leeds.

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Month: April 2011

This week

I’ve been busy dealing with all kinds of fiddly things this week, including a zillion medical appointments, but, hey, we’re off to…

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Posted on April 30, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Brandi Carlile made me cry

Last night I went to a private event for the Women’s Funding Alliance. We were feasted by Seattle celebrity chefs (including Becky…

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Posted on April 29, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Game of Thrones, Episode 2

It was rather odd watching Doctor Who (my very brief impressions here) and Game of Thrones back to back. They’re so different…

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Posted on April 27, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Dr Who

I watched the Season 6 (or 32) premiere of Dr Who last night. My first Dr Who in years. Wow, the pace…

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Posted on April 26, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Just arrived

These books arrived this weekend. I’m looking forward to all of them. I love my job! Less fond of crapcam, though. Just…

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Posted on April 25, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Happy Easter

At left is what the place looked like yesterday, all sunshine and birdsong and flowers (I think they’re some kind of hellebore)….

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Posted on April 24, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Spring

I had planned a gorgeous series of photos to show you how the garden has suddenly leapt into bloom. And that the…

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Posted on April 23, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Anglo-Saxon gods

I warn you: this is not a terribly coherent post. My frustration level is high. Before I started writing Hild I read…

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Posted on April 22, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Ammonite art prints

Today I’m cross with gods. Anglo-Saxon gods. I’ve been researching them for Hild. They are slippery little bastards. That is, scholars seem…

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Posted on April 21, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

More Aud?

From: Cindy Thoreson I love the Aud Torvingen series! Always, the last novel in the series, was published in 2007. I’ve been…

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Posted on April 20, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Doggy Style: My Game of Thrones S1E1 review

It’s good. I enjoyed it. And it took me a while to work out that I’m a little disappointed: I was hoping…

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Posted on April 19, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

What film, what novel do you wish you’d written?

A few days ago at Go Into the Story Scott Myers asked what screenplay viewers wished they’d written. For me that’s easy:…

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Posted on April 18, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Message from a viajera

From: Kida Valérie Charavel Hello, just wanted to share something… Discovered Aud in The Blue Place, and since then, just kept following…

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Posted on April 17, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Rise of the Planet of the Apes trailer

This looks as though it might suffer story problems. The beginning made me think, Oooh, creepy! but then the whole thing seemed…

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Posted on April 16, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

The Hobbit preview and start of production

I loved The Lord of the Rings, book and film. (Not perfect, but damn good.) But I’ve never been excited about the…

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Posted on April 15, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Camelot, a rant

I’ve been waiting to be in a calm, reasonable, orderly frame of mind before writing about Camelot, the new epic mini series…

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Posted on April 14, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

"Don’t attack the nice man"

Conversation in our house yesterday afternoon: “Hey, hon, you know that flooding issue we’ve been having…”“Uh-huh.”“Well, the city’s sending a guy out…

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Posted on April 13, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Save the date

If you live anywhere near Seattle, save this date: May 8th, 5 pm. I’ll be MC’ing a reading of Lambda Literary Award…

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Posted on April 11, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Greening leaves

Yesterday I promised you a review of Camelot. I lied. The review will be a bit of a rant, I think, and…

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Posted on April 9, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

The blog post of technological triumph!

We got our new AV set up running at last. The nifty new TiVo Premiere that allows for streaming from Netflix, YouTube,…

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Posted on April 8, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Lift your face to the sun–and get beaten bloody

According to my calendar, this is what April looks like: Sun, scent of flowers, the zuzz of bumble bees, birdsong, blue skies……

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Posted on April 7, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Geek out to the history beat!

Music, video, wit, and scholarship combine to bring you three-minute history primers on iconic subjects (aaaand you can dance to it). Via…

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Posted on April 6, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Slow River reprint

For those of you who have been waiting a week or so for Slow River to ship from Amazon, I’ve been assured…

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Posted on April 6, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Wrestling with technology

Today will be wrestle-with-televisual-technology day at the Griffith-Eskridge household. We got our first TiVo in 1999. We were the only people we…

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Posted on April 5, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Game of Thrones — my review

Last night I watched the preview of Game of Thrones. The showrunners, D.B. Weiss and David Benioff, made a couple of interesting…

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Posted on April 4, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized
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