Nicola Griffith

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Manly war goats

My review of The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies. Admittedly, there had been beer…

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Posted on April 7, 2015 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

New Hild blurb from Neal Stephenson: and author comparisons now at stand nine

I just got this grin-wide-enough-to-split-the-world blurb for Hild: You will never think of them as the Dark Ages again. Griffith’s command of the…

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Posted on September 10, 2013 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Freedom from money worries leads to great writing

I’ve always believed that writers do their best work when they are unhooked from the financial hamster wheel. Finally, I’ve found someone…

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Posted on January 13, 2012 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Some sun to go with that

I’m enjoying the conversation about Tolkien and literature we started yesterday. Here’s a bit of sunshine to go with that: early morning…

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Posted on January 7, 2012 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Tolkien’s storytelling not up to snuff?

I amused myself yesterday by briefly getting apoplectic over a Guardian article: Tolkien was dismissed by the 1961 Nobel prize jury as…

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Posted on January 6, 2012 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

sounds like fun but aren’t we a little old for this?

In the New York Times, Michael Agger reviews Lev Grossman‘s fantasy novel, The Magicians. He sneers at it. He thinks it “sounds…

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Posted on September 14, 2009 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

god and tolkien

From: Caite (caitemaire@hotmail.com) OK, let me get the obligatory…but totally sincere….praise out of the way. I first read The Blue Place some…

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Posted on May 20, 2008 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

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