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HarrietG

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I like
Bittermints
The Child Ballads
Good red wine
The salt wind on my face
Sunset on the hill...

I've read a lot of books in my time, enough to know that there's more than one way to write well, and that love for a book is as irrational as any other kind.

Modus Operandi
Reading... if you read my book, I'll take a look at yours. Seems only fair.

Commenting... I'll comment, as a reader, on books I've found interesting.

Writing... well, I'm here for feedback. There's a book uploaded for that purpose. Fantasy, after a fashion. All but the last two chapters are here now.

Backing... I back the books that I would buy. That's it.

favourite books

Jane Austen, Persuasion
Robert Graves, The Complete Poems
Tom de Haan, A Mirror for Princes
Georgette Heyer, These Old Shades,
Maurice Sendak, Where The Wild Things Are
Cornelius Tacitus, Annals of Imperial Rome
Gene Wolfe, The Book of the New Sun

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my books

After the Ruin

H.M. Goodchild

What is the price of a man's life? An apple? A sword? A kingdom?


There are many ways to leave a life in ruins:

In the night time, with fire and flame and a tumble of stone walls.
Behind a locked door, with a knife and a noose and a laughing smile.
By running water, with the thrust of a bronze spear into a young man’s belly.
At the quayside, denying a child’s plea, ‘Take me with you!’

But ruined lives go on, twisted and tangled as briars upon an apple tree. Ruined lives can find new love, sweet as roses on a summer’s evening. Yet those living ruined lives know roses wither, apples rot, flesh decays. They know love is but a little thing, no stronger than a candleflame at noontime. Love is not enough to set against the future. As well try to turn back the tide with a wall of sand.

(MS. partially uploaded)

 

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JKass wrote 47 minutes ago

Hey hows it going? I was just wondering if you wanted to do a read s....

Oriax wrote 4 hours ago

The way this site's behaving at the moment it will probably be a whil....

colin smith wrote 17 hours ago

Apologies, but a lady was in distress so I've had to temporarily desh....

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Dear Harriet, Pascual lost his birthday in the Spanish Civil War. ....

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I wrote 2 hours ago

Sharon, Stranger in the nursery, final thoughts for PLC. I reread the new version. I must say I am perhaps the exception to the general mood in that I liked the cut and jump of the original rather than the current linear version. Taste is personal, so decide what reflects your view of the book... view book

I wrote 15 days ago

Sharon, I've read the complete upload of 'Stranger in the Nursery' and would read on if ever you posted more. That is the single most important thing to say: your writing keeps this reader reading and mildly annoyed to have the story broken off before its ending. However, perhaps I should give my... view book

I wrote 21 days ago

Colin, It's lovely, your new book. Elegiac and mysterious. Is it complete? view book

I wrote 21 days ago

Tracey, I'll admit straight up I had trouble with your book. I enjoyed the landscapes and felt it had a real sense of place, I enjoyed the visceral feel of mud and paint as Sara makes her pictures or the sounds of Mark making his music but I could not suspend disbelief whilst reading. My reasons ... view book

I wrote 35 days ago

Dianna, I must confess that one of the reasons I dithered over joining the litfit group properly was that sometimes we would be reading and discussing books that I would pass by in the normal order of things. Your book is, I’m afraid, one of them. I’m not the target audience, being neither Christ... view book

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